Neorealism and Its Critics

Neorealism and Its Critics
Author: Robert Owen Keohane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231063494

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Neorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics.

Realist Thought and the Nation-State

Realist Thought and the Nation-State
Author: Konstantinos Kostagiannis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319596292

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This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state. Presented in a sequence of snapshots and illustrated by examples drawn from the foreign policy of great powers, this history is represented by four key realist thinkers. It uses the centrality of power in realism as a starting point to claim, contrary to conventional wisdom about realism, that for realists the state is better understood not as a political unit outside history but rather as a manifestation of power unfixed in time. It also claims that the process of gradual impoverishment of the concept of power from classical to structural realism had profound implications for realism, as what the latter gained in parsimony it lost in analytical purchase. As a result, elaborate understandings of nationalism and its relation to the state are replaced by one-dimensional approaches. In order to offer meaningful engagement with foreign policy, neorealists often have to resort to the recovery of some of the complexity of classical realist accounts.

国际关系理论:反思与重构

国际关系理论:反思与重构
Author: 秦亚青著
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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本书分为上、下两编。上编重点是对西方国际关系理论最新发展的介绍、评析和批判,涵盖了现实主义、自由主义和社会建构主义等西方主流国际关系理论;下编是对中国国际关系理论的探索,其中包括对国际关系理论中国学派生成的条件进行探讨,也在汲取中国理念和融汇西方理论的基础上提出了中国国际关系理论的一些基本思路。

Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies

Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies
Author: Richard Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317801628

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This new handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays that investigate the contribution of Critical Terrorism Studies to our understanding of contemporary terrorism and counterterrorism. Terrorism remains one of the most important security and political issues of our time. After 9/11, Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) emerged as an alternative approach to the mainstream study of terrorism and counterterrorism, one which combined innovative methods with a searching critique of the abuses of the war on terror. This volume explores the unique contribution of CTS to our understanding of contemporary non-state violence and the state’s response to it. It draws together contributions from key thinkers in the field who explore critical questions around the nature and study of terrorism, the causes of terrorism, state terrorism, responses to terrorism, the war on terror, and emerging issues in terrorism research. Covering a wide range of topics including key debates in the field and emerging issues, the Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies will set a benchmark for future research on terrorism and the response to it. This handbook will be of great interest to students of terrorism studies, political violence, critical security studies and IR in general.

Contemporary Terrorism Studies

Contemporary Terrorism Studies
Author: Diego Muro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2022
Genre: Terrorism
ISBN: 0198829566

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'Contemporary Terrorism Studies' is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to terrorism studies, examining key issues and debates, and featuring dedicated sections on terrorism and counter-terrorism. - When do individuals radicalise? - Can terrorism be rational? - How can we define terrorism? - What is the role of women in terrorism? - Can states be terrorist? World leading experts answer these questions in Contemporary Terrorism Studies, the first textbook to provide a multi-disciplinary, methodologically plural, and richly diverse introduction to terrorism studies. Contemporary Terrorism Studies covers the main approaches in terrorism studies, and is structured into three comprehensive sections. The first on 'The State of Terrorism Studies' maps the development and historical context of the discipline, and looks to the future of terrorism studies. Part two on 'Issues and Debates in Terrorism Studies' examines key contentious questions and debates such as the role of women, technology, and the media in terrorism. The final part, part three on 'Countering Terrorism' focuses specifically on counterterrorism: it's instruments, foreign policy, legal frameworks, and organisations. Overall, text will engage students, and establish a confident understanding of the subject. The textbook has been developed with pedagogical features to help enhance student learning. Each chapter contains case studies to highlight real world examples of political violence, questions for reflection to encourage critical thinking, and suggestions for further reading which provide useful sources for further reading, essays, and exam preparation. Furthermore, a consistent, accessible tone, and jargon-free writing style makes Contemporary Terrorism Studies the clearest guide to understanding terrorism. Digital formats and resources Contemporary Terrorism Studies is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with hyperlinks to question pointers, and a library of web links, helping you to broaden your knowledge and understanding terrorism studies: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - Student resources: additional case studies, guidance on accessing databases, pointers for tackling the questions for reflection, and suggested web links organised by chapter are available online. - Lecturer resources: customisable PowerPoint slides to adapt and use in teaching

Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives

Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004392947

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These essays by scholars in postcolonial studies demonstrate that the humanities’ relevance lies, not in creating a “world culture” to address the world’s problems, but in critical analyses of alterity, difference, and how the Other is perceived, defined and subdued.

Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations

Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations
Author: Benjamin de Carvalho
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351168959

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This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes and synthesizes existing contributions to the field while presenting central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of this field of study. The wide range of topics covered are grouped under the following headings: Traditions: Demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to HIR. Thinking International Relations Historically: Different ways of thinking IR historically share some common concerns and areas for further investigation. Actors, Processes and Institutions: Explores the processes, actors, practices, and institutions that constitute the core objects of study of many HIR scholars. Situating Historical International Relations: Critically reflects about the situatedness of our objects of study. Approaches: Examines how HIR scholars conduct and reflect about their research, often in dialogue with a variety of perspectives from cognate disciplines. Summarizing key contributions and trends while also sketching out challenges for future inquiry, this is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers from a range of disciplines, particularly International Relations, global history, political science, history, sociology, anthropology, peace studies, diplomatic studies, security studies, international political thought, political geography, international law.

Beyond the Security Dilemma

Beyond the Security Dilemma
Author: Jason G. Ralph
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351791907

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This title was first published in 2001. The security dilemma has long been at the heart of the security studies discipline. Moving beyond this, this book attacks the assumptions of the traditional concept and redefines the security dilemma in a way more useful for examining security policy. By exposing the historical and social contingency of the traditional concept, the book argues that the security dilemma is an important though not a permanently operating feature of international politics. An examination of US policy towards the Soviet Union demonstrates the limits of perceiving the Cold War and challenges the role that American security policy has played in the process of constructing a transatlantic security community.

The Failure of the United Nations Development Programs for Africa

The Failure of the United Nations Development Programs for Africa
Author: Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761826682

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This work explains why the two U.N. development programs for Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, UNPAAERD and UNNADAF, failed. It argues that institutional weaknesses of the U.N. and constraints imposed by the world economic order contributed to the failure of these programs.