History and international relations : from the ancient world to the 21st century / Howard LeRoy Malchow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malchow, Howard L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--History.

International relations.

History.

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations--Textbooks.

History--Methodology.

History--Philosophy.

World history--Textbooks.

World history.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

x, 394 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Contents:

Part I IR: The History of a Discipline p. 21

1 The Discipline of IR from the First World War to the Early Cold War p. 23

The "great debates" tradition p. 23

The foundation years p. 24

Idealism, Realism, and a First Great Debate? p. 32

An American discipline denned: Morgenthau and the uses of history p. 36

2 After Morgenthau: Scientific Realism and Its Critics p. 49

IR, scientism, and a bipolar world p. 49

From the Cuban missile crisis to a "managed" Cold War p. 57

The end of the Cold War p. 64

Radical perspectives and critiques p. 67

3 The Other Social Sciences and the State p. 75

Sociology and Anthropology p. 75

Economics and political economy p. 83

Psychology p. 91

Part II IR and International History p. 99

4 The Ancient World p. 103

States, empires, and the origins of diplomacy in the ancient Near East p. 103

Father of the discipline? The Greeks, the Polis, and Thucydides p. 107

After the fifth-century Greeks: From Alexander to the Romans p. 118

The ancient world and IR schools of thought p. 122

The Lessons of Late Antiquity? p. 129

5 IR's Middle Ages p. 135

Universal empire, universal church, and feudalism: The medieval problematic in Europe p. 136

Diplomacy in the Middle Ages p. 140

The early medieval Muslim world p. 145

The Crusades p. 150

The later medieval, early modern Muslim world p. 151

Difference p. 155

6 Machiavelli, the Italian City-State, and The Prince p. 161

Historicizing Machiavelli p. 161

Machiavelli's The Prince, in his time p. 168

And in ours: A work "for all time"? p. 173

7 The Sovereign State and the "Westphalian System" in Early Modern Europe p. 177

The European territorial state before Westphalia p. 177

Westphalia in IR p. 186

Ultima Ratio Regum: War, balance of power, and international law in ancien regime Europe p. 195

8 Nation, State, and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century p. 209

The European system restored and maintained p. 210

The system challenged and remade p. 220

International Relations in Europe and abroad after 1870 p. 225

The coming of the Great War p. 235

9 The Failure of Diplomacy, New and Old, and the End of European Hegemony p. 243

War and peace p. 244

The Twenty Years' Crisis p. 248

The Second World War and "the provincializing of Europe" p. 257

The postwar settlement p. 265

10 Cold War and Post-Cold War p. 273

The rhetoric of narration p. 277

More than metaphor, but what kind of reality? p. 279

The end of the Cold War p. 291

Post-Cold War p. 296

Part III Contemporary IR and the Uses of History p. 307

11 Civilizations, Religion, and a Darker Globalization: Sovereignty, World Orders, and Western Decline in Twenty-First-Century IR p. 309

The West versus the rest? p. 309

Religion and the new "post-secularity" p. 312

Within and beyond the historical and future state: The limits of sovereignty p. 313

Globalization and global governance: International organizations (IOs) and liberal internationalism/institutionalism in twenty-first-century IR p. 323

BRICS in IR p. 326

12 The Uncertain Future of Liberal Theory and of Grand Theory in Twenty-First-Century IR p. 335

Global human rights p. 335

The democratic peace p. 341

The end of International Relations Theory? p. 342.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1350111651

9781350111653

1350111643

9781350111646

OCLC:

1111773712