Perspectives on World Politics has been essential reading for students of international relations since the start of the 1980s. Its focus on three competing perspectives provides a clear and coherent organization of the divergent conceptual tools used to study world politics. Since the first edition was published, however, the orientation of each of the three perspectives has evolved and an imp…
This book gathers a dozen rising scholars and analysts of Indonesian foreign policy to examine the conditions and extent to which “independent and active principle” - first articulated by Vice President Mohammad Hatta in 1948 - has been used and abused in various strategic policy issues. The book launch event aims to introduce this book to the public, especially stakeholders related to the…
This new textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory, providing readers with the critical conceptual tools to develop their expertise. The author evaluates the claims of rival theories- realism, neorealism, liberal institutionalism, classical economic liberalism, and Marxism-to explain why international actors choose or eschew force and coercive threats in o…
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…
The contents of this book: - Culture and Foreign Politics - Beyond Blood and Belief: Culture and Foreign - History and Foreign Policy: From Contucted Identities to "Ancient Hatreds" East of the Caspian
The preparation of the second edition has been almost as seismic as the middle east itself 1990-1991 gulf crisis. After all chapters had been written and edited, the Arab world and the world at large were faced with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in an attempt to "correct" colonial history of border-demarcation and "state-creation".