Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Preface
• How to Use the Book
• Acknowledgements
• About the Contributors
• Guided Tour of Learning Features
• Guided Tour of the Online Resources
• Introduction: Diversity and Disciplinarity in International Relations Theory
  • All these theories but the bodies keep piling up
  • What do the theories share?
  • Diversity and disciplinarity
• 1 International Relations and Social Science
  • Introduction
  • The philosophy of social science in IR: an historical overview
  • Science, the fourth debate, and beyond
  • Understanding key terms
  • Beyond positivism? Beyond the fourth debate? An alternative conception of IR as a science
  • Exploring the key implications of meta-theoretical differences in IR theory
  • Conclusion
• 2 Classical Realism
  • Introduction
  • Classical realism on order and stability
  • Classical realism and change
  • Classical realism on the nature of theory
  • Case study: classical realist analysis of Iraq
  • Conclusion: the tragic vision
• 3 Structural Realism
  • Introduction
  • Why do states want power?
  • How much power is enough?
  • What causes great power war?
  • Case study: can China rise peacefully?
  • Conclusion
• 4 Liberalism
  • Introduction
  • Four big changes in the world
  • The ‘epidemiology’ of international conflict
  • Realist constraints
  • Kantian constraints
  • Analysing the global experience of a century
  • Are democracies peaceful in general?
  • A self-perpetuating system?
  • Case study: the European Union
  • Promoting order in anarchy
  • Conclusion: power, hegemony, and liberalism
• 5 Neoliberalism
  • Introduction
  • How did neoliberalism emerge?
  • What are the barriers to international cooperation?
  • How does neoliberalism study international institutions?
  • Case study: the World Trade Organization
  • Conclusion
• 6 The English School
  • Introduction
  • The interpretive mode of inquiry
  • International society
  • International society: between system and world society
  • Case study: human rights protection in a divided world
  • Conclusion
• 7 Marxism
  • Introduction
  • Historical materialism and the meaning of dialectical theory
  • Western Marxism and Gramsci’s theory of hegemony
  • Global power and hegemony
  • Case study: from Bush to Trump—US global power as twenty-first-century imperialism?
  • Conclusion
• 8 Critical Theory
  • Introduction
  • The Frankfurt school
  • Critical IR theory
  • Empirical challenges and institutional norms
  • Case study: the Arab Spring
  • Critical reflexivity
  • Conclusion
• 9 Constructivism
  • Introduction
  • The social construction of reality
  • Constructivism and rationalism
  • Constructivism as middle ground
  • Consistent constructivism
  • Case study: the war on Covid-19
  • Conclusion
• 10 Feminism
  • Introduction
  • Thinking about gender in global politics
  • Situating feminism in disciplinary international relations
  • Seeing gender in global politics
  • Case study: United Nations sanctions on Iraq
  • Conclusion
• 11 Poststructuralism
  • Introduction
  • The interdisciplinary context of poststructuralism
  • The reaction of IR to poststructuralism
  • The critical attitude of poststructuralism
  • Understanding discourse
  • Discourses of world politics
  • Case study: images of humanitarian crises
  • Conclusion
• 12 Postcolonialism
  • Introduction
  • Postcolonial theory: debates, preoccupations, commitments
  • Postcolonial international relations
  • Narrating a postcolonial IR
  • Case study: of Iranian negotiations
  • Conclusion
• 13 Normative International Relations Theory
  • Introduction
  • Normative IR theory: defining a distinct field of scholarship
  • Normative IR theory: exploring IR’s implicit ethical assumptions
  • Case study: duties to ‘enemies’ and civilian casualties in Iraq
  • Conclusion
• 14 Green Theory
  • Introduction
  • A very short history of global environmental politics
  • The greening of IR theory
  • Case study: the challenge of climate change
  • Conclusion
• 15 International Relations Theory and Globalization
  • Introduction
  • What’s at stake in the globalization debate?
  • The semantics of globalization
  • The empirics of globalization: its extent and consequences
  • Case study: from the welfare state to the competition state?
  • Conclusion
• 16 Global International Relations
  • Introduction
  • IR’s multiple and global foundations
  • Americanization and its discontents
  • Case study: IR theories and world order
  • Fragmentation or globalization?
• 17 Still a Discipline After All These Debates?
  • Introduction
  • The discipline question
  • What kind of discipline is IR? Changes in social structure
  • Changes in intellectual structure? The end of great debatism?
  • Specific theories—what axes of debate?
  • Conclusion: What are we doing? How are we doing?
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index

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