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International Relations Theory offers a unique approach to help
students think conceptually and critically about how our
contemporary world of diverse state and non-state actors works, but
also the implications of domestic and global changes. The seventh
edition covers current IR theory images (realism, liberalism,
economic-structuralism, and the English School), interpretive
understandings (constructivist, feminist, postmodern, critical
theory, and green theory), normative considerations, and
intellectual foundations from the ancient world to the modern era.
International Relations Theory offers a unique approach to help
students think conceptually and critically about how our
contemporary world of diverse state and non-state actors works, but
also the implications of domestic and global changes. The seventh
edition covers current IR theory images (realism, liberalism,
economic-structuralism, and the English School), interpretive
understandings (constructivist, feminist, postmodern, critical
theory, and green theory), normative considerations, and
intellectual foundations from the ancient world to the modern era.
The Global Philosophers examines the intellectual roots of much of
the contemporary literature on international relations and
discusses the historical context in which famous historical
political theorists wrote. Authors Mark V. Kauppi and Paul R.
Viotti focus on the classic Western political philosophers,
surveying the work of theorists such as Thucydides, Machiavelli,
Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, and their intellectual influences. Because
it features both a broad overview of the basic questions addressed
by international relations and more detailed accounts of how
various philosophers addressed these questions, this work is an
ideal introduction to the field. An admirable analysis of how
writers are influenced by their contemporaneous historical
circumstances, The Global Philosophers is essential reading for
anyone who wishes to truly understand and appreciate the
intellectual predecessors to the modern theories of international
relations.
An essential guide offers a comprehensive collection of edited and
annotated arms-control documents, dating from the late-19th century
to the present day. Sometimes successful and sometimes not,
arms-control agreements are strenuously negotiated by the parties
involved, yet they quickly become obsolete as technology advances
and new weapons come on the scene. Thus, such agreements are best
understood strategically, not as ends in themselves, but rather as
one essential avenue of securing national and global security—an
important means of allowing countries around the world to work out
their differences at the negotiating table instead of on the
battlefield. Arms Control and Global Security: A Document Guide
offers an unprecedented and comprehensive collection of
arms-control documents dating from the late-19th century to the
present. The book includes documents addressing the control of
weapons of mass destruction, the banning of biological and chemical
weapons, the weaponization of space, regional arms control, and
bilateral agreements, as well as the limitations of conventional
weaponry. The documents are edited and annotated for
nonspecialists, and charts, tables, and sidebars provide additional
information throughout.
We propose a sixth edition of our textbook that, since it was first
published in 1987, has influenced two generations of IR scholars
and practitioners. After four decades of teaching, we have learned
to communicate difficult or complex ideas, concepts, and theories
succinctly, and without watering down their content. Addressing the
complexities of IR theory in particular, our book is written in
plain language readily understood by both graduate and
undergraduate audiences, as well as English-speaking and
English-as-second-language (ESL) international students. Over the
years, IR doctoral students—many of whom are now professors or
serve in policy-related positions, have approached us at
conferences to confide that they found our book helpful in
preparing for their doctoral exams. We do not present “laundry
lists” of IR theories one finds in other books. By contrast, we
employ a framework or taxonomy of alternative images—or world
views—that underlie present-day IR theory (i.e., realism,
liberalism, economic structuralism, and the English School). Driven
by one or another of these images, theorists also wear different
interpretive lenses that profoundly influence their theorizing
(positivism, feminism and those related to phenomenological
understandings—post-modernism, critical theory, and
constructivism). Both images and interpretive lenses have their
place in our IR theory framework. This taxonomy weaves or
integrates diverse and cross-cutting theoretical threads or strands
into a meaningful “whole cloth” approach not found in other
volumes
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