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1. Both fox and hedgehog : the art of nesting structural and perceptual perspectives / Jack Snyder -- 2. Jervis's realism / Randall L. Schweller -- 3. Political psychology / Rose McDermott -- 4. Rational signaling revisited / Jonathan Mercer -- 5. Fear, greed, and financial decision-making / Janice Gross Stein -- 6. Robert Jervis and the nuclear question / Marc Trachtenberg -- 7. The meaning of the nuclear evolution : China's nuclear modernization and US-China security relations / Thomas J. Christensen -- 8. Reflections on system, system effects, and nineteenth-century international politics as the practice of civil association / Paul W. Schroeder -- 9. The art of the intelligence autopsy / James J. Wirtz -- 10. The (good) person and the (bad) situation : recovering innocence at the expense of responsibility? / James W. Davis -- 11. Force in our times / Robert Jervis.

Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction -- References -- 2: What Is Science Diplomacy? -- 2.1 The Emergence of Science Diplomacy in Contemporary International Relations -- 2.1.1 In Search of a Definition -- 2.1.2 Science Diplomacy Is a Form of Diplomacy of Influence -- 2.2 A Historical Perspective -- 2.2.1 Great Voyages of Exploration and Colonization -- Box 2.1 Bonaparte´s Egypt campaign (1798-1801): An unprecedented combination of hard and soft power -- 2.2.2 The World Wars of the Twentieth Century -- 2.2.3 The Cold War: Science in the Ideological Competition -- 2.2.4 After the Cold War -- References -- 3: Science Diplomacy as a National Issue -- 3.1 Universal Science and the Power of Nations -- 3.1.1 The Scientist and the Diplomat: Contours of Two Types -- 3.1.1.1 Science Without Borders Versus National Political Spaces -- 3.1.1.2 Search for Truth, Fairness and Transparency Versus Strategy, Manipulation and Secret -- 3.1.2 The Scientist and the Diplomat: A Proximity of Convenience? -- 3.2 The Challenges of Science Diplomacy -- 3.2.1 Attraction -- 3.2.2 Cooperation -- 3.2.3 Influence -- 3.2.3.1 Presence in International Organizations -- 3.2.3.2 Scientific Expertise as Means of Influence -- 3.2.3.3 Hosting International Scientific Organizations and Major Research Infrastructures -- Box 3.1 The choice of the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiver... -- References -- 4: Science in Diplomatic Apparatus: The Diversity of National Approaches -- 4.1 Scientific and Technological Networks -- 4.1.1 Science Counselors -- 4.1.2 Networks -- 4.2 Science Diplomacy of Major European Countries: France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK -- 4.2.1 France -- 4.2.2 Germany -- 4.2.3 Italy -- 4.2.4 Switzerland -- 4.2.5 United Kingdom

Conflict, peace and security are some of the enduring concerns of the Peace Research Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. They have become integrated in the dominant disciplines of international relations and political science and now are also part of most of the social science disciplines, such as economics, sociology, public policy, gender studies, international law and so on. This article purportedly seeks to examine some of the varied issues of conflict, peace and security and the challenges posed before the IR theorists to deal with them. It will also examine how the liberals, realists, Marxists, neo-Marxists and functionalists interpret conflict-transformation, peace-building and security. This article concludes with the argument that it is within the frontiers of critical theory as well as a class analysis of the structure of society within any state that social scientists can move from a paradigm of conflict reduction towards a more egalitarian model of peace and security. This article also concludes that only human security with a strong social welfare policy will lead to an egalitarian social order, especially in India.

Customary international law (CIL) is widely recognized as a fundamental source of international law. While its continued significance in the age of treaties was once contested, it is now generally accepted that CIL remains a vital element of the international legal order. Yet CIL is also plagued with conceptual and practical difficulties, which have led critics to challenge its coherence and legitimacy. In particular, critics of CIL have argued that it does not meaningfully affect state behavior. Traditional CIL scholarship is ill equipped to answer such criticism because its objectives are doctrinal or normative—namely, to identify, interpret, and apply CIL rules, or to argue for desirable changes in CIL. For the most part, that scholarship does not propose an explanatory theory in the social scientific sense, which would articulate how CIL works, why states comply, and why and how rules change.

"Leaders and Foreign Policy: Surveying the Evidence" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Small states are dependent on the economic, political, and societal shelter provided by larger states and international organizations to survive and prosper. Iceland provides an ideal case study for shelter theory, due both to its smallness as compared with its larger neighbouring states, as well as its status as both an entity and then as a state. That Iceland has historically been so isolated, relative to other small European states, also makes it easier to trace the country's interactions with other actors, since the impact of each interaction can be measured more definitively thus broadening the theory's validity and offering new insights into its operations. The contributors to this volume focus on the extent of Iceland's external engagement with other states and the domestic consequences of this interaction. Societal shelter, in terms of transfer of norms and values, is as of much importance as economic and political shelter. By unpacking the structure of Iceland's external relations, this book demonstrates both the size-related disadvantages and the unique needs of small states to evaluate, explain, and predict small state behaviour. This book will be of interest to all scholars in international relations, especially those interested in small state behaviour"--

"This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of international law to the conduct of international relations and foreign policy. Written by an international lawyer and academic, this book contains a systematic treatment of both fields of study. The work serves as an introduction to contemporary theories of international relations and as a primer on international law, especially for the nonlawyer

The objective of this paper is to examine some specific question on the theory of law in international human rights law. International human rights law has played an important role in the evolution of International law. There are different ways of approaching and understanding International law, different schools and certain central theoretical questions. This paper tackles theoretical questions within international law in the light of International law of human rights, such as the questions of hierarchy, unity, coherence, structure, time, power, justice and legitimacy. Furthermore, analyse theoretical horizons, like the question evolution/revolution, progression/regression, justiciability, sustainability and efficacity.

Lin, Yustin Yifu: Is China's growth real and sustainable? Huang Yanzhong: The state of China's state apparatus Cho Young Nam: Political reform without substantial change : an assessment of the Hu-Wen leadership in China Zhang Baohui: American hegemony and China's U.S. policy Suzuki, Shogo: China's perceptions of international society in the nineteenth century : learning more about power politics? Wang Yiwei: Between enterprise and compromise : opportunities and challenges for China's diplomacy after the Iraq war

Studies of international regimes have sought to describe international collaborative arrangements in more systematic terms than in the past, and to analyze their development in terms of major schools of international relations theory. This article refines the commonly used definition of regimes and elucidates the major hypotheses of one theoretical school, structural realism. The strength and nature of the international commodity trade regime are systematically described, and their development is analyzed in terms of the major hypotheses of structural realism. In large part, these hypotheses are supported by the analysis of what is a relatively weak international regime.