The global future introduces you to the field of international relations while providing you with a set of concepts and analytic tools to help you understand contemporary events and emerging global trends. Contents: Part I. Trend and transformation in world politics Part II. The actors in world politics Part III. The politics of global security Part IV. The politics of global welfare Pa…
"This book is centrally concerned with the question of who and what foreign policy is - and should be - for. As such it will be of interest to the informed general reader as well as all those involved in the academic study of international relations."
There is a widespread belief today that politics, power and resistance operate at the global level rather than at the level of nation states - the traditional subjects of international relations. This shift, from the national to the global, is asserted as much by representatives of leading western states and international institutions as it is by the radical critics of the international order. …
The contents of this book: Part 1: Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Issues in International Relations Part 2: Concepts and Context in International Relations Globalization Part 3: Substantive Issues in International Relations
International politics (or international relations) is a subject rather than a discipline, a field rather than a form of knowledge. In contrast to a discipline, which is distinguished chiefly by the application of a singular form of testing to its propositions, a subject derives its identity simply from its focus of analysis (or 'subject matter'); its tests of truth are borrowed from the discip…
Throughout time, leaders at the pinnacle of power - popes and kings, presidents and prime ministers, even czars and generals - have subscribed to the belief that they can change the course of history, not by the force of arms, but through charm, skillful negotiation, honesty, deceit, and all the other arts of peaceful human exchange. Now, in Playing God, Charles L. Mee, Jr. - author of the crit…
This work disputes the idea that speculation about the relations between states only goes back to World War I, but argues that scholars, soldiers and statesmen have speculated about the relations between states since the modern state emerged four or five centuries ago.
This textbook provides description and analysis of the Cold War and its aftermath. It covers the period from all angles with focus on regional developments as well as global interactions, and also gives due consideration to economic and strategic issues.
The definition of realism is often debated by students of international politics. Michael Williams offers an important re-interpretation of thinkers such as Rousseau, Hobbes and Morgenthau arguing that contemporary realism is at odds with their central concerns. This book will interest scholars of international relations and the history of ideas.
This book provides a major review of the state of international theory. It is focused around the issue of whether the positivist phase of international theory is now over, or whether the subject remains mainly positivistic. Leading scholars analyse the traditional theoretical approaches in the discipline, then examine the issues and groups which are marginalised by mainstream theory, before tur…