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PART 1. Images of international relations theory -- PART 2. Interpretive understandings & normative considerations -- PART 3. The intellectual roots of IR theory. This book is the longest-standing and best-selling IR theory text on the market, popular for the authors' clear and readable explanations of the various IR world views. Newer editions identify separate interpretive understandings-positivism, feminism, and those influenced by phenomenology-post-modernism, critical theory, and constructivism.

"Teaching International Relations Theory" published on by Oxford University Press.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: International Relations Theory of War -- The Systemic International Outcomes-Stability of International Systems -- The Intrasystemic International Outcomes-Territorial Expansion of Polar Powers -- International Outcomes: Primary Disputes and Coping -- Why Do Wars Break Out? Structural Theoretical Research -- The Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1: War-Theory and Analysis of Results -- On Powers and Wars -- Systemic International Outcomes -- Systemic Factors and International Systems Durability -- Systemic Factors and International Systems Stability -- Intrasystemic International Outcomes -- Systemic Factors and Expansion of Influence of Polar Powers -- Systemic Factors and Expansion of Influence of Polar Powers at the Ends of Wars -- Chapter 2: International Relations Theory of War -- Basic Assumptions of the Theory -- Hypotheses of the Theory Concerning the Two International Outcomes -- Stability of International Systems -- Degree of Territorial Expansion -- The Transhistorical Principles -- Anarchy and the Tendency to Hegemonies -- Homeostasis and Preservation of the System -- Polarity of the System: The Independent Variable -- The Most Important Player in the International System: The State -- Great Power or Polar Power -- Polar Power in the Current Study -- Possible Polarity Models -- Polarity of the System and International Outcomes -- Summary of the Principle of the Model -- The Systemic Status of the International Relations Theory of War -- The International Relations Theory of War and Other Key Realist Theories -- Chapter 3: Polarity of the System -- Chapter 4: How the Research Is Empirically Examined -- Systemic Factors and Stability of International Systems -- Stability of International Systems-Quantitative Research.

This innovative assessment of the current state of International Relations theory diagnoses a deep malaise in the field and proposes a reorientation from metatheoretical concerns to the theoretical exploration of central policy issues and dilemmas confronting the 21st century world.