Theory And History In International Relations

Author : Donald J. Puchala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136074585

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Theory and History in International Relations by Donald J. Puchala Pdf

Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the "manufacture" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called "scientific revolution" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizations, cultural encounters and colonies in the ancient world, and liberal approaches to the understanding of history and ethical contributions to the dialogue over theory.

Author : Torbjorn L. Knutsen,Torbjørn L. Knutsen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 071904930X

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History of International Relations Theory by Torbjorn L. Knutsen,Torbjørn L. Knutsen Pdf

Torbjorn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from the High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace, wealth and power. The book counters the view that international relations has no theoretical tradition and shows that scholars, soldiers and statesmen have been speculating about the subject for the last 700 years. Beginning with the roots of the state and the concept of sovereignty in the Middle Ages, the author draws upon the insights of outstanding political thinkers - from Machiavelli and Hobbes to Hegel, Rousseau, and Marx and contemporary thinkers such as Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Morgenthau and Walt - who profoundly influenced the emergence of a discrete discipline of International Relations in the twentieth century. Fully revised and updated, the final section embraces more recent approaches to the study of international relations, most notably postmodernism and ecologism.

Author : Andrew J. Williams,Amelia Hadfield,J. Simon Rofe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415481786

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International History and International Relations by Andrew J. Williams,Amelia Hadfield,J. Simon Rofe Pdf

This innovative new textbook seeks to provide undergraduate students of international relations with valuable and relevant historical context, bridging the gap and offering a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. Each chapter integrates both historical analysis and literature and applies this to an international relations context in an accessible fashion, allowing students to understand the historical context in which these core issues have developed. The book is organised thematically around the key issues in international relations such as war, peace, sovereignty, identity, empire and international organisations. Each chapter provides an overview of the main historical context, theories and literature in each area and applies this to the study of international relations. Providing a fresh approach, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations and international relations theory.

Author : Torbjorn Knutsen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784997717

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A history of International Relations theory by Torbjorn Knutsen Pdf

This introduction to International Relations shows how discussions of war, wealth, peace and power stretch back well over 500 years. It traces international ideas from medieval times, through the modern ages up to the collapse of the Soviet empire. It shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics. This is the 3rd edition of an accessible and popular text. It introduces the ways theologians like Augustine and Aquinas wrestled with the nature of the state and laid down rules of war that are still in use. It shows how Renaissance humanists like Machiavelli and Bodin developed our secular understanding of state sovereignty. The book argues that contract philosophers like Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau introduced concepts that laid the basis for the scholarly field of International Relations, and that Enlightenment thinkers followed up with balance-of-power theories, perpetual-peace projects and visions of trade and peaceful interdependence. These classic international theories have been steadily refined by later thinkers by Marx, Mackinder and Morgenthau, by Waltz, Wallerstein and Wendt who laid the foundation for the contemporary science of International Relations (IR). The book places international arguments, perspectives, terms and theories in their proper historical setting. It traces the evolution of IR theory in context. It shows that core ideas and IR approaches have been shaped by major events and that they have often reflected the concerns of the Great Powers. Yet, it also makes clear that the most basic ideas in the field have remained remarkably constant over time.

Author : Torbjörn L. Knutsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474264806

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A History of International Relations Theory by Torbjörn L. Knutsen Pdf

Author : Michael J. Hogan,Thomas G. Paterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521540356

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Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations by Michael J. Hogan,Thomas G. Paterson Pdf

Originally published in 1991, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations has become an indispensable volume not only for teachers and students in international history and political science, but also for general readers seeking an introduction to American diplomatic history. This collection of essays highlights a variety of newer, innovative, and stimulating conceptual approaches and analytical methods used to study the history of American foreign relations, including bureaucratic, dependency, and world systems theories, corporatist and national security models, psychology, culture, and ideology. Along with substantially revised essays from the first edition, this volume presents entirely new material on postcolonial theory, borderlands history, modernization theory, gender, race, memory, cultural transfer, and critical theory. The book seeks to define the study of American international history, stimulate research in fresh directions, and encourage cross-disciplinary thinking, especially between diplomatic history and other fields of American history, in an increasingly transnational, globalizing world.

Author : Kalevi Holsti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319266244

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Kalevi Holsti: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy Analysis, History of International Order, and Security Studies by Kalevi Holsti Pdf

In honour of Prof. Kalevi Holsti’s 80th birthday, this collection presents 15 of the renowned Political Scientist’s major essays and research projects. It also offers a collection of his writings and essays on theories of international relations, foreign policy analysis, security and the world order. These previously published works address issues that remain “hot topics” on the international agenda, such as the changing nature of warfare and the causes of failed states; major essays also evaluate the current search for international order. Prof. Holsti is the author of a major textbook that has been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesian. Thousands of undergraduates around the world are acquainted with his work.

Author : Erik Ringmar
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783740253

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History of International Relations by Erik Ringmar Pdf

Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism and globalization – and their consequences on contemporary society. History of International Relations provides a unique textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations, and anybody interested in international relations theory, history, and contemporary politics.

Author : Susanna Hast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317051305

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Spheres of Influence in International Relations by Susanna Hast Pdf

Current events happening around the world, especially the ’humanitarian interventions’ by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of spheres of influence in international politics absolutely critical. Hast explores the practical implications and applications of this theory, challenging the concept by using historical examples such as suzerainty and colonialism, as well as the emergence of a hierarchical international order. This study further connects the English School tradition, post-war international order, the Cold War and images of Russia with the concept of the sphere of influence to initiate debate and provide a fresh outlook on a concept which has little recent attention.

Author : Hartmut Behr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230248380

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A History of International Political Theory by Hartmut Behr Pdf

Contemporary theory of international politics faces a twofold problem: the critical engagement with legacies of national power politics in connection to 20th Century International Relations and the regeneration of notions of humanity. This book contributes to this engagement by a genealogy of thoughts on war, peace, and ethics.

Author : Nicolas Guilhot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231152679

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The Invention of International Relations Theory by Nicolas Guilhot Pdf

The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a 'who's who' of scholars and practitioners debating what would become the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, the editor revisits a seminal event in the discipline.

Author : Laust Schouenborg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315409870

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International Institutions in World History by Laust Schouenborg Pdf

This book presents a case for a basic reorientation of International Relations away from the state and towards the study of social institutions in the sense of patterned practices, ideas and norms/rules. IR has always suffered from a parochial occupation with the state and the Western system of state. Its main theories revolve around these phenomena, and have resulted in the reification of the state: it has been turned into an essential actor, with certain immutable and fundamental properties that remain constant throughout time. A list of these properties usually includes territorial limits, centralisation, monopolisation of violence and exclusive loyalties. International Institutions in World History shows how the state is an inherently modern phenomenon, a modern social institution, and that foundational concepts in IR should be based on a full appreciation of the wider record of human existence on earth, trans-historically and cross-culturally. Schouenborg argues that these social institutions may be captured via a universal functional typology consisting of four categories: legitimacy and membership; regulating conflicts; trade; and governance. The book will be of interest to scholars and students within IR (particularly IR theory), anthropology, archaeology and sociology, and those interested in general social theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415105064

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History of International Relations Theory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Manuela Spindler
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783866495500

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International Relations by Manuela Spindler Pdf

The book is written for active learners – those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an extensive discussion of the questions and problems of philosophy of science (Part 1). Theory of IR refers to the scientific study of IR and covers all of the following subtopics: the role and status of theory in the academic discipline of IR; the understanding of IR as a science and what a ""scientific"" theory is; the different assumptions upon which theory building in IR is based; the different types of theoretical constructions and models of explanations found at the heart of particular theories; and the different approaches taken on how theory and the practice of international relations are linked to each other. The criteria for the structured learning process will be applied in Part 2 of the book during the presentation of five selected theories of International Relations. The concept is based on ""learning through example"" – that is, the five theories have been chosen because, when applying the criteria developed in Part 1 of the book, each single theory serves as an example for something deeply important to learn about THEORY of IR more generally.

Author : Jason W. Davidson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647120306

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America's Entangling Alliances by Jason W. Davidson Pdf

America’s Entangling Alliances challenges the belief that the US resists international alliances. By documenting thirty-four alliances—categorized as defense pacts, military coalitions, or security partnerships—Davidson finds that the US demand for allies is best explained by looking at variance in its relative power and the threats it has faced.