Rethinking International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780333589052 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str.

Fred Halliday

Opis

International Relations as an academic discipline is faced with three major convergent challenges: a historical challenge from the end of the Cold War and from new forms of internationalism and fragmentation; an institutional challenge from the growing preoccupation of other social sciences with the international; and a theoretical challenge both from these cognate disciplines and from within. Ranging widely over the discipline, Fred Halliday's book powerfully reaffirms the specificity of International Relations and lays the basis for a long-overdue reformulation.

Spis treści

Preface.- Introduction: the Pertinence of International Relations.- Theories in Contention: A Discipline and its Discontents.- A Wary Engagement: Historical Materialism and International Relations.- State and Society in International Relations.- International Society as Homogeneity Revolutions and the International System Hidden from International Relations: Women and the International Inter-systemic.- Conflict: the Case of Cold War.- A Singular Collapse: the Soviet Union and Inter-state.- Competition International Relations and the 'End of History': Is there a New Agenda?.- Conclusion: The Challenge of the Normative.

O autorze

Sometime Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics