Understanding international relations

Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Defining International Relations -- Introduction -- Perspectives and theories -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 2 The Development of International Relations Theory in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline -- The 'realist' critique of liberal internationalism -- The postwar synthesis -- IR and the behavioural sciences -- Challenges to the realist synthesis -- Pluralism and complex interdependence -- Further reading -- 3 International Relations Theory Today -- Introduction -- From classical realism to structural realism -- From structural realism to liberal institutionalism -- Constructivism and the 'English School' -- Critical international thought -- Feminist theory, gender studies and postcolonialism -- Conclusion: the end of IR theory? -- Further reading -- 4 Agency, Structure and the State -- Introduction -- The agent-structure problem and levels of analysis -- The state and international relations -- Foreign and domestic policy: agency within the state -- Conclusion: from foreign policy to power -- Further reading -- 5 Power and Security -- Introduction: statecraft, influence and power -- Dimensions of power -- Power, fear and insecurity -- Conclusion: managing insecurity -- Further reading -- 6 The Balance of Power and War -- Introduction -- The balance of power -- The political conception of war -- War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Conclusion: the end of state-centric IR? -- Further reading -- 7 Global Governance -- Introduction: sovereignty, anarchy and global governance -- Functionalism -- Integration theory, federalism and neofunctionalism -- Global economic institutions: Bretton Woods and after -- International regimes and regime theory.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Defining International Relations -- Introduction -- Perspectives and theories -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 2 The Development of International Relations Theory in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline -- The 'realist' critique of liberal internationalism -- The postwar synthesis -- IR and the behavioural sciences -- Challenges to the realist synthesis -- Pluralism and complex interdependence -- Further reading -- 3 International Relations Theory Today -- Introduction -- From classical realism to structural realism -- From structural realism to liberal institutionalism -- Constructivism and the 'English School' -- Critical international thought -- Feminist theory, gender studies and postcolonialism -- Conclusion: the end of IR theory? -- Further reading -- 4 Agency, Structure and the State -- Introduction -- The agent-structure problem and levels of analysis -- The state and international relations -- Foreign and domestic policy: agency within the state -- Conclusion: from foreign policy to power -- Further reading -- 5 Power and Security -- Introduction: statecraft, influence and power -- Dimensions of power -- Power, fear and insecurity -- Conclusion: managing insecurity -- Further reading -- 6 The Balance of Power and War -- Introduction -- The balance of power -- The political conception of war -- War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Conclusion: the end of state-centric IR? -- Further reading -- 7 Global Governance -- Introduction: sovereignty, anarchy and global governance -- Functionalism -- Integration theory, federalism and neofunctionalism -- Global economic institutions: Bretton Woods and after -- International regimes and regime theory.