The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of international relations. Arguably the most impressive collection of international relations scholars everbrought together within one volume, the Handbook debates the nature of the field itself, critically engages with the major theories, surveys a wide spectrum of methods, addresses the relationship between scholarship and policy making, and examines the field's relation with cognate disciplines. The Handbook takes as its central themes the interaction between empirical and normative inquiry that permeates all theorizing in the field and the way in which contending approaches have shaped one another. In doing so, the Handbook provides an authoritative and critical introduction to the subject and establishes a sense of the field as a dynamic realm of argument and inquiry. The Oxford Handbook of International Relations will be essential reading for all of those interested in the advanced study of global politics and international affairs INDICE: PART I INTRODUCTION; 1. Between utopia and reality: the practical discourses of international relations; PART II IMAGINING THE DISCIPLINE; 2. The state and international relations; 3. From international relations to globalsociety; 4. The point is not just to explain the world but to change it; 5. Adisabling discipline?; PART III MAJOR THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; 6. Eclectic theorizing in the study and practice of international relations; 7. Realism; 8.The ethics of realism; 9. Marxism; 10. The ethics of Marxism; 11. Neoliberal institutionalism; 12. The ethics of neoliberal institutionalism; 13. The new liberalism; 14. The ethics of the new liberalism; 15. The English School; 16. The ethics of the English School; 17. Constructivism; 18. The ethics of constructivism; 19. Critical theory; 20. The ethics of critical theory; 21. Postmodernism; 22. The ethics of postmodernism; 23. Feminism; 24. The ethics of feminism; PART IV THE QUESTION OF METHOD; 25. Methodological individualism and rational choice; 26. Sociological approaches; 27. Psychological approaches; 28. Quantitative approaches; 29. Case study methods; 30. Historical methods; PART V BRIDGING THE SUBFIELD BOUNDARIES; 31. International political economy; 32. Strategic studies; 33. Foreign policy decision-making; 34. International ethics; 35. International law; PART VI THE SCHOLAR AND THE POLICY-MAKER; 36. Scholarshipand policy-making: who speaks truth to whom?; 37. International relations: the relevance of theory to practice; PART VII THE QUESTION OF DIVERSITY; 38. International relations from below; 39. International relations theory from a former hegemon; PART VIII OLD AND NEW; 40. The concept of power and the (un)discipline of international relations; 41. Locating responsibility: the problem of moral agency in international relations; 42. Big questions in the study of world politics; 43. The failure of static and the need for dynamic approaches to international relations; 44. Six wishes for a more relevant discipline of international relations
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958558-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 800
- Fecha Publicación: 31/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés