Theories of international relations

Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors and Authors -- Preface to the 6th Edition -- 1: Introduction -- A Century of IR Theorizing -- Post-War International Relations Theory -- The End of Theory? Why Theory Has Never Been More Important -- What Is Theory and How Do We Theorize? -- Why Theorize? From Motivation to Purpose -- Evaluating Theories -- Explanatory Power -- Predictive Power -- Interpretive Power -- Intellectual Consistency and Coherence -- Reflexivity -- Outline of the Book -- Conclusion: Next Generation of IR Theorizing? -- Glossary Terms -- 2: Realism -- Defining Realism -- Exemplary Realist Arguments -- The Hobbesian State of Nature -- Waltzian Structural Realism -- Characteristic Realist Propositions -- Self-Help -- Cooperation and Conflict -- Balancing -- Relative Gains -- Neo-classical Refinements of the Balancing Logic -- Morality and Foreign Policy -- Varieties of Realist Theories and Explanations -- Realist 'Theories' -- Realist Explanations vs. Explanations that Employ Realist Elements -- Structural Realism: Indeterminate Predictions -- Augmented Structural Realism -- Neo-classical Realism -- Fear, Uncertainty and the Future of Realist Theories -- Glossary Terms -- Further Reading -- 3: Liberalism -- After the Cold War -- The Liberal View: 'Inside Looking Out' -- War, Democracy and Free Trade -- Prospects for Peace -- The Spirit of Commerce -- Interdependence and Liberal Institutionalism -- Human Rights -- Globalization, the Financial System and Terrorism -- Liberalism and Globalization -- The Nature of 'Free Trade' -- Sovereignty and Foreign Investment -- Non-State Terrorism -- Conclusion -- Glossary Terms -- Further Reading -- 4: Postcolonialism -- 'The Third World Was Not a Place, It Was a Project' -- Postcolonialism in IR: Colonialism, Race, and Epistemic Justice.

Cover -- 1. Introduction -- Frameworks of analysis -- Diversity of theory -- Contested nature -- The foundation of the discipline of International Relations -- Theories and disciplines -- Explanatory and constitutive theory -- Interdiscplinary theory -- What do theories differ about? -- Evaluating theories -- 2. Realism -- Defining realism -- Hobbes and classical realism -- Waltz and structured realism -- Motives matter -- System and structure -- Morality and foreign policy -- How to think about realism (and its critics) -- 3. Liberalism -- After the Cold War -- The liberal view: 'inside looking out' -- War, democracy and free trade -- Globalization, the financial system and terrorism -- Conclusion -- 4. The English School -- From power to order: international society -- Order and justice in international relations -- The revolt against the West and the expansion of international society -- Progress in international relations -- Conclusion -- 5. Marx and Marxism -- Class, production and international relations in Marx's writings -- Theories of nationalism and imperialism -- The changing fortunes of Marxism in International Relations -- Beyond the paradigm of production: implications for the emancipatory project -- Conclusion -- 6. Historical Sociology -- Origins of historical sociology -- Power and production in historical sociology -- Power and interdependence in international relations -- System and society -- Morality, culture and the emotions -- A higher synthesis? -- On grand narratives -- Conclusion -- 7. Critical Theory -- Origins of critical theory -- The politics of knowledge in international relations theory -- Rethinking political community -- Conclusion -- 8. Post-structuralism -- Power and knowledge in international relations -- Textual strategies of post-structuralism -- Problematizing sovereign states.

The fully updated and revised third edition of this widely used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field including an entirely new chapter on Realism by Jack Donnelly. Author Burchill from Deakin University, Vic, Richard Devetak from Monash University, Reus-Smit from ANU and True from Uni of Auckland