International Relations Theories

Name: International Relations Theories
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Author: Tim Dunne
ISBN: 9780192691545

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Unrivalled coverage of IR theories from leading experts, including historically dominant traditions such as realism, and liberalism, to theories such as postcolonialism and green theory. Featuring a new organisation to reflect the importance and focus on global IR as well as newly authored chapters on classical realism, liberalism, Marxism, and critical theories. A wide range of case studies show readers how theory can be applied to address concrete political problems.

Key Features: · Expert line-up of contributors offer coverage of dominant and emerging theories and arguments from diverse perspectives · Includes coverage of historically marginalised theories, including postcolonialism and environmentalism · A case study in each chapter shows how theory can be used to explain real-world problems and dilemmas and additional questions to encourage students to analyse and evaluate the different theories for themselves · Boxes highlighting key books or articles introduce students to prominent works in the field to encourage wider reading and research interests · Spotlights on key books and articles encourage readers to go beyond the textbook and develop their research interests, exploring important works in the field New to this Edition: · An enhanced ebook with author videos, self-test questions, and pointers to answering case study questions · Newly authored chapters on classical realism, liberalism, and Marxism provide students with fresh perspectives on these theories · Newly authored chapter on critical theories illustrates the intersectional nature of critical theories as it relates to gender, race, and decolonisation, while speaking to topical debates in the field · The global IR chapter has been moved to the beginning of the text, which encourages students to critically reflect on the context in which IR developed and appreciate the importance of viewing international relations theories from truly representative perspectives from the very start · Updated online resources include pointers on answering case study questions, supporting students to apply theories to real world issues.

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Útgefandi: Oxford University Press Academic UK

ISBN: 9780192691545

Print ISBN: 9780192866455

Format: ePub

Útgáfa: 6

Höfundar: Tim Dunne

Tungumál: English

Útgefið: 2024-06-21

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Cover Page
New to this edition
Title page
Copyright page
Preface
Rationale for the book
How to Use the Book
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
About the Contributors
Guided Tour of Features
Reader’s Guides
Multiple Choice Questions
Author Videos
Pointers for Case Studies and Questions
Featured Book/Articles
Questions
Further Reading
1 Introduction: Diversity and Disciplinarity in International Relations Theory
1.1 All these theories but the bodies keep piling up
1.2 What do the theories share?
1.3 Diversity and disciplinarity
List of Key Terms
2 Global International Relations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 IR’s multiple and global foundations
2.2.1 Pan-nationalism and regional identity
2.2.2 Universalism, international organization, and world order
2.2.3 Rules and norms: sovereignty and non-intervention
2.2.4 Realism and realpolitik
2.2.5 Underdevelopment and political economy
2.3 Case study: Americanization, IR theories and world order
2.4 Fragmentation or globalization?
2.4.1 Growing interest in theory
2.4.2 Dominance does not mean deference
2.4.3 Localization and subsidiarity
2.4.4 Focus on agency
2.4.5 Emergence of national and regional schools
2.5 Debating Global IR
Questions
Further reading
Notes
List of Key Terms
3 International Relations and Social Science
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The philosophy of social science in IR: an historical overview
3.2.1 Science and the first debate
3.2.2 Science and the second debate
3.2.3 Science and the interparadigm debate
3.3 Science, the fourth debate, and beyond
3.4 Understanding key terms
3.4.1 Explaining and understanding
3.4.2 Positivism and postpositivism
3.4.3 Rationalism and reflectivism
3.5 Beyond positivism? Beyond the fourth debate? An alternative conception of IR as a science
3.5.1 Scientific realism
3.6 Exploring the key implications of meta-theoretical differences in IR theory
3.6.1 Types of theory
3.6.2 Question of objectivity
3.6.3 Theory testing and theory comparison
3.6.4 Theory and practice
3.7 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
4 Classical Realism
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Human nature
4.3 The state and the question of the political
4.3.1 Politics
4.3.2 Change
4.3.3 Power
4.3.4 Tragedy
4.3.5 International order and hegemonic wars
4.4 Modernity and classical realism
4.5 Case study: reflections on classical realism and war in Ukraine
4.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
5 Structural Realism
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Why do states want power?
5.3 How much power is enough?
5.4 What causes great power war?
5.4.1 The polarity of the system
5.4.2 Balanced or imbalanced power
5.4.3 Power shifts and war
5.4.4 The offence–defence balance
5.5 Case study: can China rise peacefully?
5.5.1 The rise of China according to offensive realism
5.5.2 The rise of China according to defensive realism
5.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
6 Liberalism
6.1 Introduction
6.2 How did liberal international theory emerge and develop over time?
6.3 Liberal perspectives on war and peace: polity theories, institutionalism, and transnational interdependence
6.3.1 The polity theoretical perspective
6.3.2 The institutionalist perspective
6.3.3 The transnational interdependence perspective
6.3.4 Democratic peace theory
6.4 Liberal scholarship in action: contemporary insights on embedded liberalism, liberal internationalism, and globalization
6.4.1 Embedded liberalism
6.4.2 The liberal international order and liberal internationalism
6.4.3 Liberals on dynamics of globalization
6.5 Case study: the European Union
6.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
7 Neoliberalism
7.1 Introduction
7.2 How did neoliberalism emerge?
7.3 What are the barriers to international cooperation?
7.4 How does neoliberalism study international institutions?
7.4.1 Bargaining
7.4.2 Defection
7.4.3 Autonomy
7.5 Case study: the World Trade Organization
7.5.1 Origins of the World Trade Organization
7.5.2 World Trade Organization: its structure and operation
7.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
Notes
List of Key Terms
8 The English School
8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 Beyond realism versus idealism
8.2 The interpretive mode of inquiry
8.3 International society
8.3.1 International society: definition, properties, variations
8.3.2 Types of international society
8.4 International society: between system and world society
8.5 Case study: human rights protection in a divided world
8.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
9 Marxism
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Marx’s materialist conception of history
9.2.1 Criticisms and myths of Marx(ism)
9.3 Classical Marxist theories of imperialism
9.4 World-systems analysis
9.5 Neo-Gramscian IR theories
9.6 Capitalism and the modern states-system
9.6.1 Political Marxism
9.7 Uneven and combined development
9.8 Case study: a Marxist analysis of the two world wars
9.9 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
10 Critical Theories
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory in IR
10.2.1 Traditional and critical theory of the Frankfurt School
10.2.2 Critical Theory in IR
10.3 Pluralizing critical theories
10.3.1 Making the familiar strange and moving to new terrains
10.4 Case study: critiquing peacebuilding and statebuilding projects
10.4.1 Problem-solving critiques
10.4.2 Critical theories of peacebuilding and statebuilding
10.4.3 Beyond international intervention?
10.5 The politics of critical theories between success and failure
10.5.1 Critical theories as political interventions
10.5.2 The false choice between theory and practice
10.6 Making the familiar strange
10.6.1 Race and imperialism in the birth of IR
10.6.2 Women and the making of the IR canon
10.7 Moving to unknown terrains
10.7.1 The bodily and the material
10.7.2 Religion
10.7.3 Beyond the human
10.8 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
Note
List of Key Terms
11 Constructivism
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The social construction of reality
11.3 Constructivism and rationalism
11.3.1 Social being
11.3.2 Mutual constitution
11.3.3 Social facts
11.3.4 Social cognition
11.4 Constructivism as middle ground
11.4.1 Shifting the middle ground
11.4.2 Approach or theory
11.5 Consistent constructivism
11.5.1 Language and rules
11.5.2 Reasons and causes
11.5.3 Further developments
11.6 Case study: the war on Covid-19
11.7 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
Notes
List of Key Terms
12 Feminism
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Thinking about gender in global politics
12.3 Situating feminisms in disciplinary International Relations
12.4 Seeing gender in global politics
12.5 Case study: the Russia–Ukraine War
12.5.1 IR theories and the Russia–Ukraine War
12.5.2 Feminist readings of the war in Ukraine
12.5.3 So what is a feminist theory of the war in Ukraine?
12.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
13 Poststructuralism
13.1 Introduction
13.1.1 Interpretation, mapping, and meta-theory
13.1.2 Poststructuralism and IR
13.2 The interdisciplinary context of poststructuralism
13.2.1 Positivism and science in question
13.2.2 Postempiricism in science
13.3 The reaction of IR to poststructuralism
13.3.1 Critical anxiety
13.3.2 Poststructuralism misunderstood as postmodernism
13.4 The critical attitude of poststructuralism
13.4.1 Political context
13.4.2 Michel Foucault: limits, ethos, and critique
13.4.3 Subjectivity, identity, and power
13.5 Understanding discourse
13.5.1 Language, reality, and performance
13.5.2 Discourse, materialism, and meaning
13.6 Discourses of world politics
13.6.1 Theory as the object of analysis
13.6.2 From subjects to subjectivity
13.6.3 Methodological precepts: interpretation, representation, politics
13.7 Case study: images of humanitarian crises
13.8 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
Note
List of Key Terms
14 Postcolonialism
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Postcolonial theory: debates, preoccupations, commitments
14.3 Postcolonial international relations
14.4 Narrating a postcolonial IR
14.5 Case study: Iranian negotiations
14.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
Notes
List of Key Terms
15 Normative International Relations Theory
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Normative IR theory: defining a distinct field of scholarship
15.2.1 History and influences
15.2.2 Cosmopolitanism and communitarianism
15.2.3 Consequentialism and deontology
15.3 Normative IR theory: exploring IR’s implicit ethical assumptions
15.3.1 Norms matter
15.3.2 Sources of value affect moral inclusion
15.3.3 The global realm is one of moral agents and moral responsibilities
15.4 Case study: duties of restraint to ‘enemies’—from checkpoint soldiers in the Iraq War to AI-enabled synthetic sentries in South Korea
15.4.1 What norms? The just war tradition and the norm of non-combatant immunity
15.4.2 Identifying and applying the norm: the checkpoint incident and ‘collateral damage’
15.4.3 Evaluating and revising the norm itself: warning shots and risks to soldiers
15.4.4 Who counts? Sources of value and duties to ‘enemies’
15.4.5 Where does responsibility lie? Blame for civilian deaths
15.4.6 An Alternative Scenario: AI, Autonomous Weapons Systems, and South Korea’s Synthetic Sentries
15.5 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
Notes
List of Key Terms
16 International Relations, the Environment, and Green Theory
16.1 Introduction
16.2 A very short history of global environmental politics
16.3 The rise of critical green theory
16.4 The greening of IR theory
16.4.1 Environmental regimes: rationalist accounts and green IR alternatives
16.4.2 The environment–security nexus
16.5 Case study: the ‘international’ of climate change
16.5.1 Institutionalist theories and the climate
16.5.2 Realist theories and the climate
16.5.3 Green IR approaches and the climate
16.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
17 International Relations Theory and Globalization
17.1 Introduction
17.2 What’s at stake in the globalization debate?
17.3 The semantics of globalization
17.4 The empirics of globalization: its extent and consequences
17.5 Case study: the rise of the competition state?
17.6 Conclusion
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
18 Still a Discipline after All These Debates?
18.1 Introduction
18.2 The discipline question
18.2.1 Conceptions of the discipline of IR
18.2.2 Sociological explanation for the reproduction of disciplines
18.2.3 IR and political science
18.3 What kind of discipline is IR? Changes in social structure
18.3.1 Social and intellectual structure
18.3.2 So what is the social structure of IR?
18.3.3 Change in social structure
18.4 Changes in intellectual structure? The end of great debatism?
18.4.1 Task uncertainty
18.4.2 Stop the great debates?
18.4.3 Great debates—did they stop after all?
18.5 Specific theories—what axes of debate?
18.6 Conclusion: What are we doing? How are we doing?
Questions
Further reading
List of Key Terms
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Images
6 Liberalism
13 Poststructuralism
18 Still a Discipline after All These Debates?