International relations theory

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International relations theory

Mark V. Kauppi, Paul R. Viotti

Rowman & Littlefield, c2020

6th ed

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9781538115688

Description

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

Table of Contents

Table of Contents— 1.Thinking About IR Theory PART ONE: Images of International Relations Theory 2.Realism: The State and Balance of Power 3.Liberalism: Interdependence and Global Governance 4.Economic Structuralism: Global Capitalism and Post-Colonialism 5.The English School: International Society and Grotian Rationalism PART TWO: Interpretive Understandings & Normative Considerations 6.Constructivist Understandings 7.Positivism, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Understandings 8.Feminist Understandings in IR Theory 9.Normative IR Theory: Ethics and Morality PART THREE: The Intellectual Roots of IR Theory 10.The Ancient Greeks 11.Greco-Roman Thought and the Middle Ages 12.The Renaissance and Modern Political Thought
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781538115695

Description

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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  • NCID
    BB28981543
  • ISBN
    • 9781538115688
    • 9781538115695
  • LCCN
    2019016013
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Lanham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 428 p.
  • Size
    27 cm
  • Classification
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