International Relations category: 9182 books
Revisiting Gendered States
Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson's Gendered States asked what difference gender makes in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state system. This book connects the earlier debates of Peterson's book with the gendered state today, one that exists within a globalized and increasingly...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Offering a thought provoking combination of analysis and chronological coverage, European International Relations 1648-1815 provides an up-to-date treatment of a crucial period in the development of European international relations. Jeremy Black's determined engagement with events in Eastern Europe...
Perceptions and Policy in Transatlantic Relations
Prospective Visions from the US and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
In this book, experts from both sides of the Atlantic, examine the recent tensions between Western Europe and the United States over such issues as transatlantic security, policies towards terrorism and relations with Russia and the former Soviet Union, against the broader background of perceptions...
by J. Ann Tickner
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
J. Ann Tickner is ranked among the most influential scholars of international relations. As one of the founders of the field of feminist international relations, she is also among the most pioneering. In many ways her academic career has traced the development of the feminist subfield of IR, and it...
Diplomatic Games
Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise...
by Yaqing Qin
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions, this book offers a ground breaking reinterpretation of world politics from Yaqing Qin, one of China's leading scholars of international relations. Qin has pioneered the study of constructivism in China and developed a variant of this approach,...
Bringing Sociology to International Relations
World Politics as Differentiation Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Functional differentiation has long been at the heart of sociological thought, and as such has become a defining feature in the evolution of modern society; one which distinguishes it from pre-modern societies which have instead typically differentiated by means of segmentation, or stratified social...
Beyond the Ivory Tower
International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane...
Bourdieu in International Relations
Rethinking Key Concepts in IR
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu’s vocabulary can be applied to study...
After Anarchy
Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations. When states perceive an international organization as legitimate, they defer to it, associate themselves with it, and invoke its symbols. Examining the United Nations Security Council, Ian Hurd demonstrates how legitimacy is created,...
by V. Kubalkova, A. Cruickshank
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Refuting the assumption that orthodox Marxist theory contains anything of relevance on international relations, this book, originally published in 1980, clarifies, reconstructs, and summarizes the theories of international relations of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet leadership of the...
by Renard Teipelke
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 1,0, University of California, San Diego (Department of Political Science), course: Introduction to International Relations, language: English, abstract: In the analysis of international relations,...
International Relations Theory
A New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This is a major new edition of a highly-regarded textbook on International Relations theory which combines deep analysis into the diversity of thought within the major scholarly traditions and the guidance for students on doing their own theorising. Knud Erik Jorgensen analyses the nuances of the...
History and International Relations
From the Ancient World to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
History and International Relations examines, from a historian's perspective, the evolution of international relations as a discipline and charts its engagement with the history of war, peace, and foreign relations from the ancient world to the present day. In three parts, it looks at the field's...