The Handbook of International Relations remains an essential benchmark publication for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics in politics and international relations. Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and PoliciesĪ truly international undertaking, this Handbook reviews the many historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and covers the key contemporary topics of research and debate today.
International Law and International Relations Efforts at Theoretical Synthesis in IR: Possibilities and Limits Critical Theories and Poststructuralism The Second Edition has been expanded to 33 chapters and fully revised, with new chapters on the following contemporary topics:
In this eagerly-awaited new edition, the Editors have once again drawn together a team of the world's leading scholars of international relations to provide a state-of-the-art review and indispensable guide to the field, ensuring its position as the pre-eminent volume of its kind. The dominant theoretical approaches in international relations explain the role of international organizations in different ways. Their precise role in international politics is however debated. Professor Rory Cormac chooses his best books on covert action.Abstract:The original Handbook of International Relations was the first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the field of international relations. International organizations are a central component of global governance which has a positive influence on global development. Turning to the world of intelligence, Pulitzer prize winning author Tim Weiner discusses the US intelligence services and Keith Jeffrey, author of the authorised history of MI6, talks about the UK intelligence services. Former UK diplomat, Mike Maclay, discusses the thrill of diplomacy. Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of the New America think tank looks at 21 st century foreign policy and Jennifer M Harris, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, looks at geoeconomics and the deployment of US economic power, rather than its military might in international affairs.Īt a more general level, Jeremy Greenstock, former UK representative for Iraq, chooses his best books on diplomacy, Professor Charles Kupchan chooses his best on grand strategy and Geoff Berridge discusses why we need diplomats. Joseph Nye, former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School, chooses his best books on global power, taking up a similar theme. On the changing face of international relations and foreign policy, Ali Wayne, fellow at the RAND corporation, chooses his best books on the US’s increasingly challenged position in world affairs. The Developmental State, Cornell University Press, 1999. 'The French Developmental State as Myth and Moral Ambition,' in Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed. On US relations with specific countries and regions, Orville Schell, writer and activist focused on US-China relations, chooses his best books on China and the US, Journalist and Middle East correspondent, Patrick Cockburn, looks at the Iraq war, William LeoGrande chooses his best books on US relations with Latin America and Harvard professor Stephen Walt looks at US-Israel relations. 'International Law and Moral Action in International Relations Thought,' in Cecelia Lynch and Michael Loriaux, Law and Moral Action in World Politics, University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Foreign correspondent Stephen Glain discusses US militarism and Lawrence Kaplan, columnist on the New Republic looks at US intervention.
Gideon Rose looks at US foreign policy and A G Hopkins looks at American imperialism.
Unsurprisingly, given its preponderant weight politically and economically, the role of the US in global affairs enjoys a corresponding focus in our interviews and book recommendations on foreign policy and international relations.