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The book is written for active learners – those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an extensive discussion of the questions and problems of philosophy of science (Part 1). Theory of IR refers to the scientific study of IR and covers all of the following subtopics: the role and status of theory in the academic discipline of IR; the understanding of IR as a science and what a "scientific" theory is; the different assumptions upon which theory building in IR is based; the different types of theoretical constructions and models of explanations found at the heart of particular theories; and the different approaches taken on how theory and the practice of international relations are linked to each other. The criteria for the structured learning process will be applied in Part 2 of the book during the presentation of five selected theories of International Relations. The concept is based on "learning through example" – that is, the five theories have been chosen because, when applying the criteria developed in Part 1 of the book, each single theory serves as an example for something deeply important to learn about THEORY of IR more generally

"Obgleich sowohl in der Außenpolitik als auch in der Wirtschaft, in Handel, Industrie und im Finanzwesen Globalisierung längst Alltag ist, mangelt es nach wie vor in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland am Willen zur Durchsetzung einer konzentrierten Politik zur frühzeitigen Förderung von Begabungen und Interessen für europäische und internationale Aufgaben. Einen gewissen Beitrag zur Lösung dieses Ausbildungsdefizits könnten deutsche Universitäten durch Einrichtung entsprechender Studiengänge leisten. Dies wird am Beispiel des Studiengangs Internationale Beziehungen/International Relations an der TU Dresden gezeigt." (Autorenreferat)

Obgleich sowohl in der Außenpolitik als auch in der Wirtschaft, in Handel, Industrie und im Finanzwesen Globalisierung längst Alltag ist, mangelt es nach wie vor in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland am Willen zur Durchsetzung einer konzentrierten Politik zur frühzeitigen Förderung von Begabungen und Interessen für europäische und internationale Aufgaben. Einen gewissen Beitrag zur Lösung dieses Ausbildungsdefizits könnten deutsche Universitäten durch Einrichtung entsprechender Studiengänge leisten. Dies wird am Beispiel des Studiengangs Internationale Beziehungen/International Relations an der TU Dresden gezeigt. (DIPF/Orig.).

The article deals with the issue on the correlation, study and usage of the international relations history theoretical foundations as a sufficiently specific scientific direction, combining the features of historical and political sciences, in particular world history, the history of diplomacy, political science, the theory of the international relations, etc. The emergence of the international relations history is connected with the development of national historical sciences, the study of the history of diplomacy, geopolitical concepts, the theory of international relations, etc. The results of the scientific study of the international relations history have laid the basis for the common international processes study. Throughout the XX-th century this direction was actively developing, been influenced upon by the confrontation of political systems. Accordingly, antagonistic ideologies were used, a sample selection of historical facts and sources was carried out. Such issues as the concept and the subject of the international relations history, its periodization, and relations with the world history, history of diplomacy, the theory of international relations and other scientific directions still remain controversial.