The Ngo Challenge For International Relations Theory

Author : William E. DeMars,Dennis Dijkzeul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317542070

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The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory by William E. DeMars,Dennis Dijkzeul Pdf

It has become commonplace to observe the growing pervasiveness and impact of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). And yet the three central approaches in International Relations (IR) theory, Liberalism, Realism and Constructivism, overlook or ignore the importance of NGOs, both theoretically and politically. Offering a timely reappraisal of NGOs, and a parallel reappraisal of theory in IR—the academic discipline entrusted with revealing and explaining world politics, this book uses practice theory, global governance, and new institutionalism to theorize NGO accountability and analyze the history of NGOs. This study uses evidence from empirical data from Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia and from studies that range across the issue-areas of peacebuilding, ethnic reconciliation, and labor rights to show IR theory has often prejudged and misread the agency of NGOs. Drawing together a group of leading international relations theorists, this book explores the frontiers of new research on the role of such forces in world politics and is required reading for students, NGO activists, and policy-makers.

Author : Tim Dunne,Milja Kurki,Steve Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-16
Category : International relations
ISBN : 9780198814443

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International Relations Theories by Tim Dunne,Milja Kurki,Steve Smith Pdf

Unrivalled coverage of IR theories from leading experts, featuring a new chapter that reflects on the historic marginalisation of global IR and a wide range of case studies that show readers how theory can be applied to address concrete political problems.

Author : Ken Booth,Toni Erskine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509508341

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International Relations Theory Today by Ken Booth,Toni Erskine Pdf

International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global condition of human society. The result is an important, dynamic and often deeply divided field. This long-awaited new edition of International Relations Theory Today offers undergraduate and postgraduate students an essential guide to the complex terrain of IR theory and the key questions on its agenda. With chapters by 25 prominent and provocative IR theorists, the book reveals the intellectual excitement - and turmoil - of theorizing world politics. It reflects the conflicts and tensions around the profound challenges facing the contemporary world, such as climate change, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and economic and political injustice and conflict, while also expressing hope that we can better understand, and respond to, these challenges. Above all, this book demonstrates the significance of thinking theoretically about international relations and developing the tools not merely to describe but also to explain, analyse, prescribe and possibly re-imagine the global political landscape. As the world comes face-to-face with historic challenges over the coming decades, International Relations Theory Today will help its readers to participate more effectively in debates about the most important global political dilemmas of our time.

Author : Thomas Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351977494

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Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations by Thomas Davies Pdf

Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside better-known structures of the Global North. International contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how NGOs are influential in every prominent issue-area of contemporary International Relations evaluation of the significant regional variations among NGOs and how regional contexts influence the nature and impact of NGOs analysis of the ways NGOs address authoritarianism, terrorism, and challenges to democracy, and how NGOs handle concerns surrounding their own legitimacy and accountability. Exploring contrasting theories, regional dimensions, and a wide range of contemporary challenges facing NGOs, this Handbook will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

Author : William E. DeMars,Dennis Dijkzeul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317542063

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The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory by William E. DeMars,Dennis Dijkzeul Pdf

It has become commonplace to observe the growing pervasiveness and impact of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). And yet the three central approaches in International Relations (IR) theory, Liberalism, Realism and Constructivism, overlook or ignore the importance of NGOs, both theoretically and politically. Offering a timely reappraisal of NGOs, and a parallel reappraisal of theory in IR—the academic discipline entrusted with revealing and explaining world politics, this book uses practice theory, global governance, and new institutionalism to theorize NGO accountability and analyze the history of NGOs. This study uses evidence from empirical data from Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia and from studies that range across the issue-areas of peacebuilding, ethnic reconciliation, and labor rights to show IR theory has often prejudged and misread the agency of NGOs. Drawing together a group of leading international relations theorists, this book explores the frontiers of new research on the role of such forces in world politics and is required reading for students, NGO activists, and policy-makers.

Author : Timothy Dunne,Milja Kurki,Steve Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199298334

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International Relations Theories by Timothy Dunne,Milja Kurki,Steve Smith Pdf

This cutting-edge textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to international relations theory. Arguing that theory is central to explaining the dynamics of world politics, it includes a wide variety of theoretical positions--from the historically dominant traditions to powerful critical voices since the 1980s. The editors have brought together a team of international contributors, each specializing in a different theory. The contributors explain the theoretical background to their positions before showing how and why their theories matter. The book opens up space for analysis and debate, allowing students to decide which theories they find most useful in explaining and understanding international relations.

Author : Barbara Allen Roberson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1855674033

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International Society and the Development of International Relations Theory by Barbara Allen Roberson Pdf

This collection of essays has been written by major international relations theorists and it sets out a critical appreciation of the development of the international society idea and its influence on international relations theory.

Author : Joseph Lepgold,Miroslav Nincic
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231505529

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Beyond the Ivory Tower by Joseph Lepgold,Miroslav Nincic Pdf

The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane and irrelevant. Joseph Lepgold and Miroslav Nincic demonstrate how good international relations theory can inform policy choices. Globalization, ethnic conflict, and ecological threats have created a new set of issues that challenge policymakers, and cutting-edge scholarship can contribute a great deal to the diagnosis and handling of potentially explosive situations.

Author : Michael W Doyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429978319

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New Thinking In International Relations Theory by Michael W Doyle Pdf

This book of ten original essays provides a showcase of currently diverse theoretical agendas in the field of international relations. Contributors address the theoretical analysis that their perspective brings to the issue of change in global politics. Written for readers with a general interest in and knowledge of world affairs, New Thinking in International Relations Theory can also be assigned in international relations theory courses.The volume begins with an essay on the classical tradition at the end of the Cold War. Essays explore work outside the mainstream, such as Jean Bethke Elshtain on feminist theory and James Der Derian on postmodern theory as well as those developing theoretical advances within traditional realms from James DeNardo's formal modeling to the more descriptive analyses of Miles Kahler and Steve Weber. Other essays include Matthew Evangelista on domestics structure, Daniel Deudney on naturalist and geopolitical theory, and Joseph Grieco on international structuralist theory.

Author : Charles W. Kegley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : International relations
ISBN : OCLC:277867536

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Controversies in International Relations Theory by Charles W. Kegley Pdf

Author : Tim Dunne,Milja Kurki,Katarina (Marie Sk odowska-Curie Fellow Marie SkAodowska-Curie Fellow Kusic, University of ViennaMarie SkAodowska-Curie Fellow Marie Sk odowska-Curie Fellow University of Vienna),Steve Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : International relations
ISBN : 9780192866455

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International Relations Theories by Tim Dunne,Milja Kurki,Katarina (Marie Sk odowska-Curie Fellow Marie SkAodowska-Curie Fellow Kusic, University of ViennaMarie SkAodowska-Curie Fellow Marie Sk odowska-Curie Fellow University of Vienna),Steve Smith Pdf

Author : G. John Ikenberry,Michael Mastanduno,William C. Wohlforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139501644

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International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity by G. John Ikenberry,Michael Mastanduno,William C. Wohlforth Pdf

The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experiences between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, when five or more powerful states dominated international relations, and the latter twentieth century, when two superpowers did so. Building on a highly successful special issue of the leading journal World Politics, this book seeks to determine whether what we think we know about power and patterns of state behaviour applies to the current 'unipolar' setting and, if not, how core theoretical propositions about interstate interactions need to be revised.

Author : Stephanie Lawson
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745664237

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Theories of International Relations by Stephanie Lawson Pdf

Since the field of International Relations was established almost a century ago, many different theoretical approaches have been developed, each offering distinctive accounts of the world, why it has come to be the way it is, and how it might be made a better place. In this illuminating textbook, leading IR scholar, Stephanie Lawson, examines each of these theories in turn, from political realism in its various forms to liberalism, Marxism, critical theory and more recent contributions from social theory, feminism, postcolonialism and green theory. Taking as her focus the major practical issues facing scholars of international relations today, Lawson ably shows how each theory relates to situations ?on the ground?. Each chapter features case studies, questions for discussion to encourage reflection and classroom debate, guides to further reading and web resources. The study of IR is a profoundly normative enterprise, and each theoretical school has its strengths and weaknesses. Theories of International Relations encourages a critical, reflective approach to the study of IR theory, while emphasising the many important and interesting things it has to teach us about the complexities and challenges of international politics today.

Author : Synne L. Dyvik,Jan Selby,Rorden Wilkinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351782081

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What's the Point of International Relations? by Synne L. Dyvik,Jan Selby,Rorden Wilkinson Pdf

What’s the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR’s leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the discipline’s origins, history, and composition. It sees IR as a discipline that has much to learn from others, which has not yet lived up to its ambitions or potential, and where much work remains to be done. At the same time, it finds much that is worth celebrating in the discipline’s growing pluralism and views IR as a deeply political, critical, and normative pursuit. The volume is divided into five parts: • What is the point of IR? • The origins of a discipline • Policing the boundaries • Engaging the world • Imagining the future Although each chapter alludes to and/or discusses central aspects of all of these components, each part is designed to capture the central thrust of the concerns of the contributors. Moving beyond western debate, orthodox perspectives, and uncritical histories this volume is essential reading for all scholars and advanced level students concerned with the history, development, and future of international relations.

Author : N. J. Rengger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134865598

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International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order by N. J. Rengger Pdf

This book seeks to offer a general interpretation and critique of both methodlogical and substantive aspects of International theory.