International relations theory /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2020]
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| Edition: | Sixth Edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- International Relations Theory; Contents; Preface; 1 Thinking About IR Theory; Epistemology, Methodology, and Ontology; What is Theory?; Explanation and Prediction; Abstraction and Application; Levels of Analysis; Images; Interpretive Understandings; The Intellectual Roots of IR Theory; PART I IMAGES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY; 2 Realism: The State and Balance of Power; Major Actors and Assumptions; Intellectual Precursors and Influences; Geopolitical Writers; Mid-Twentieth-Century Writers; Power; Definitions; Measurement; System; Game Theory and Anarchy
- Distribution of Capabilities and the Balance of PowerChange; Power Transition; Globalization and Interdependence; Realists and International Cooperation; Realists and Their Critics; Realism: The Term Itself; The System and Determinism; Realists and the State; Realists and the Balance of Power; Realism and Change; Realism: The Entire Enterprise; References; 3 Liberalism: Interdependence and Global Governance; Major Actors and Assumptions; Intellectual Precursors and Influences; Interest Group Liberalism; International Organization; Integration; Transnationalism; Interdependence
- International RegimesNeoliberal Institutionalism; Global Governance; Green Politics and the Environment; Economic Interdependence and Peace; The Democratic Peace; Decision-Making; Change and Globalization; Liberals and Their Critics; Anarchy; Theory Building; The Democratic Peace; Voluntarism; References; 4 Economic Structuralism: Global Capitalism and Postcolonialism; Major Actors and Assumptions; Intellectual Precursors and Influences; Dependency Theorists; ECLA and UNCTAD Arguments; Radical Critiques; Domestic Forces; The Capitalist World-System; System
- Political, Economic, and Social FactorsGramsci and Hegemony; Change and Globalization; Postcolonialism; Economic Structuralists and Their Critics; The Question of Causality; Reliance on Economics; System Dominance; Theoretical Rigidity; Accounting for Anomalies; Defining Alternatives and Science as Ideology; Responses; References; 5 The English School: International Society and Grotian Rationalism; Major Actors and Assumptions; Intellectual Precursors and Influences; The Divergence of British and American Scholarship; Genesis of the English School; Levels of Analysis and Theory; Change
- From System to International SocietyFrom International Society to World Society; The English School, Liberals, and Social Constructivists; The English School and Its Critics; Methodological Muddle; Historical Knowledge; Political Economy, the Environment, and Gender; Conceptual and Philosophical Eclecticism; References; PART II INTERPRETIVE UNDERSTANDINGS AND NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS; 6 Constructivist Understandings; Major Actors and Assumptions; Intellectual Precursors and Influences; Intersubjectivity; Structure, Rules, and Norms; Rules; Norms; Agents; Identity; Logic of Appropriateness