The original Handbook of International Relations was the first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the field of international relations. In this eagerly-awaited new edition, the Editors have once again drawn together a team of the world′s leading scholars of international relations to provide a state-of-the-art review and indispensable guide to the field, ensuring its position as the pre-eminent volume of its kind.
The Second Edition has been expanded to 33 chapters and fully revised, with new chapters on the following contemporary topics:
– Normative Theory in IR
– Critical Theories and Poststructuralism
– Efforts at Theoretical Synthesis in IR: Possibilities and Limits
– International Law and International Relations
– Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies
– Comparative Regionalism
– Nationalism and Ethnicity
– Geopolitics in the 21st Century
– Terrorism and International Relations
– Religion and International Politics
– International Migration
A truly international undertaking, this Handbook reviews the many historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and covers the key contemporary topics of research and debate today.
The Handbook of International Relations remains an essential benchmark publication for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics in politics and international relations.
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PART ONE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
On the History and Historiography of International Relations – Brian C. Schmidt
Philosophy of Social Science and International Relations – Colin Wight
Ethics and Norms in International Relations – Andrew Hurrell & Terry Macdonald
Rational Choice and International Relations – Duncan Snidal
Constructivism in International Relations: Sources, Contributions and Debates – Emanuel Adler
Critical Theory, Post-Structuralism and Post-Colonialism – Maja Zehfuss
Feminist Perspectives on International Relations – Laura Sjoberg & J. Ann Tickner
Psychological Explanations of International Decision-Making and Collective Behavior – Janice Gross Stein
Theoretical Pluralism in IR: Possibilities and Limits – Jeffrey T. Checkel
PART TWO: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
State, Sovereignty and Territory – Thomas J. Biersteker
Power and International Relations – David A. Baldwin
Foreign Policy – Walter Carlsnaes
International Organizations and Institutions – Lisa L. Martin & Beth A. Simmons
International Law – Beth Simmons
Negotiation and Bargaining – John Odell
Globalization and Global Governance – Michael Z rn
Transnational Actors and World Politics – Thomas Risse
Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies – Fabrizio Gilardi
Domestic Politics and International Relations – Kenneth Schultz
Comparative Regionalism: European Integration and beyond – Tanja A. Börzel
Nationalism and Ethnicity in International Relations – Lars-Erik Cederman
Great Power Hierarchies and Strategies in 21st Century World Politics – David A. Lake
PART THREE: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Interstate War and Peace – Jack S. Levy
Security Co-Operation – Harald M ller
Terrorism and Counterterrorism – Ethan Buena de Mesquita
Civil Wars, Conflict Resolution and Bargaining Theory – Barbara F. Walter
Religion and International Relations Theory – Monica Duffy Toft
International Finance – Michael Tomz
International Trade – Helen V. Milner
International Migration – Gallya Lahav & Sandra Lavenex
Development and International Relations – Jana Hönke & Markus Lederer
International Environmental Politics – Ronald B. Mitchell
International Human Rights – Hans Peter Schmitz and Kathryn Sikkink
Sobre el autor
Beth Simmons is a Professor of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Previous positions include Assistant Professor at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include international law, international human rights, and international political economy. She is author of Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939 (1995), and is currently working on a book length manuscript on compliance with international human rights obligations. She is a co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of International Relations (2002).