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International Relations Theory

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
205
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This textbook shows how to think about international relations and offers insights into its most important theories and issues.

Written from beyond the Anglo-US academic environment, with attention to regional nuances, it teaches students to perceive international politics in an organized and theoretical way, thus helping them grasp the complexity of the subject and see simple ways of making sense of it. Providing a thorough introduction to the main theories and approaches to international relations, the book covers the main dilemmas, concepts and methodological issues alongside a number of neglected theoretical paradigms such as institutionalism, Marxism, critical approaches, feminism and power in world politics.

It will be of great use as a main textbook as well as a supplementary guide for related courses, including Foreign Policy Analysis, Conflict Studies, Security Studies, History of International Relations, International Organizations and Global Governance.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables
Introduction: what are international relations and why study them?
1 (Ir)rationality of internationalΒ politics
Studying international relations: nuances of methodology and levels of analysis
Irrational people and rational decisions they take. Models of decision-making in foreign policy
Expected utility theory and prospect theory
Behavioral revolution in theory of international relations
Recommended reading
2 Realism
The philosophy of realism
Reinhold Niebuhr, Edward Carr and Hans Morgenthau: the principles of classical realism
Neorealism. Kenneth Waltz’s theory of international politics
Security dilemma
International relations in the realist paradigm
Recommended reading
3 Is it all about power?
Where is power?
Basics of power calculations
Great powers in international politics
Balance of power theory
Recommended reading
4 Neoliberalism
Philosophy of neoliberalism
Norman Angell and Woodrow Wilson: theory of idealism
Complex interdependence theory
Democratic peace theory
International relations in the neoliberal paradigm
Recommended reading
5 English school
Hugo Grotius: natural law, rationality and justice
Hedley Bull: anarchy, order and system
History matters. Methodological pluralism of the English school
International society
Recommended reading
6 Institutionalism
Institutionalism of rational choice
Theory of regimes
Functionalism and neofunctionalism
Hegemonic stability theory
Recommended reading
7 Constructivism
Ontology of constructivism
Socially constructed world
Identity and cultural norms
Strategic culture
Soft power
Recommended reading
8 Marxism and neo-Marxism
Karl Marx: materialism and capitalism
Theory of imperialism
Dependency theory
World-system analysis
Recommended reading
9 Critical theories
Jurgen Habermas: communicative action and post-national constellation
Coxian critical theory
Andrew Linklater: normative theory
Critical international relations theory
Recommended reading
10 Feminism
Gender identity and power
What if all presidents were women?
Feminism on war and peace
Multiple focuses of feminism in IR
Recommended reading
11 Non-Western approaches
Why is Western IR not enough?
Chinese school of international relations
Islamic paradigm
The Global South perspective
Russian theory of international relations: project in the making
What’s next? An epilogue
Bibliography
Index

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