Handbook of international relations / edited by Cameron G. Thies (MSU Foundation Professor and Dean, James Madison College, Michigan State University, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thies, Cameron G., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in political science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar, 2025.

Summary:

"This comprehensive Handbook provides an assessment of recent scholarship in the field of International Relations (IR). Cameron G. Thies brings together leading scholars to explore its contested disciplinary foundations, as well as the major theoretical and methodological approaches used to explain and understand IR. Taking an inclusive approach, this Handbook assesses both mainstream and radical approaches to IR. Chapters examine key aspects of international security, with discussions of terrorism, cybersecurity, diplomatic and intelligence studies, alongside an analysis of the differences, origins and evolution of peace science and conflict processes. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical debates and diverse case studies, authors explore issues relating to comparative foreign policy, critical international political economy and trade. They investigate the legalization of world politics, with a focus on international organizations, law and human rights, and the world environment. Expanding on an individual's role in IR, they also explore themes such as ethnicity and nationalism, global health and religion. Broad in scope, this Handbook advances both academic and policy knowledge, theorising and empirically apprehending the current state of IR for students, scholars and researchers of international relations, politics and foreign policy. Global think tanks and foreign policymakers will additionally find the insights presented here beneficial"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction to the handbook of international relations / Cameron G. Thies

Part I: International relations as a discipline: History, philosophy, and approaches

2. The origins and evolution of a discipline / Brian Schmidt

3. Race and international relations / Oumar Ba

4. Philosophy of science and international studies: A chronicle of a fraught relationship / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

5. Ethics and international relations / Brent J. Steele and Eric A. Heinze

6. Landscapes of critical international relations / Laura Sjoberg

7. Contested essential concepts in international relations / Felix Berenskötter and Stefano Guzzini

Part II: Methodological approaches to international relations

8. Quantitative analyses and formal modeling in international relations / Kelly M. Kadera and Willow Kreutzer

9. Experimental and survey research in international relations / Katja B. Kleinberg

10. Computational methods in international relations / Babak Rezaee Daryakenari

11. Network analysis in international relations / Olga Chyzh

12. Methods for critical international relations / Xymena Kurowska and Freya Cumberlidge

Part III: International security

13. Security studies / Edward Newman

14. Critical approaches to security studies / Keith Krause

15. Diplomatic studies / Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Halvard Leira

16. Intelligence studies / Loch K. Johnson

17. Regional powers and comparative regionalism / Leslie Wehner

Part IV: Peace science and conflict processes

18. Peace science and conflict processes / Idean Salehyan

19. Civil conflict / Jessica Maves Braithwaite

20. Terrorism: Competition, mimicry and claims of responsibility / Mia Bloom

21. Cybersecurity and technological innovations: Linking debates on

Deterrence, human rights, and the future / Aaron Brantly

22. Political demography / Jennifer D. Sciubba

Part V: Foreign policy

23. Comparative foreign policy / Cristian Cantir and Juliet Kaarbo

24. Bridging the gap in international relations / Susanna P. Campbell and Jordan Tama

25. Foreign policy decision-making: A practical guide for the fpdm-curious / Ryan Beasley

26. Overcoming the agent-structure problem in international relations / Marijke Breuning

27. Foreign policy as public policy / Kai Oppermann and Sebastian Harnisch

28. Analyses of foreign policy beyond fpa / Halvard Leira

Part VI: International political economy

29. The politics of international money and finance / Andrew Rys and David A. Steinberg

30. International trade / Michael Plouffe

31. Critical international political economy: Critical theory and its critique of liberalism / J. P. Singh

Part VII: The legalization of world politics

32. International organizations: Frontiers at the international and domestic levels in the study of international cooperation / Julia Gray

33. International law / Dana Zartner

34. Human rights and state repression / Jacqueline Rubin DeMeritt

35. International relations and the global environment / Kate O'Neill

Part VIIi: The international relations of people

36. Nationalism and ethnicity in the study of international relations / Erin K. Jenne and Harris Mylonas

37. Global health and international relations / Sara E. Davies

38. International communication and international relations / Kenneth Rogerson

39. The complex and increasingly understood interplay between religion, peace, and violence in / Monica Duffy Toft.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781785366130 (e-book)

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Restricted for use by site license.