International Theory

Reinvestigates realism in the context of international relations through a dialogue between classical international theory and critical theoretical challenges to it. Essays in international theory are combined with writings in critical and postructuralist theories of international relations.

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Edited By James Der Derian

Inhalt
Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Preface - Introduction: Critical Investigations; J.Der Derian - THEORY AND TRADITION - Why is there no International Theory?; M.Wight - The Intellectual and Political Functions of Theory; H.Morgenthau - Hans Morgenthau's Principles of Political Realism; J.A.Tickner - ANARCHY AND SOVEREIGNTY - Society and Anarchy in International Relations; H.Bull - The Powers of Anarchy: Theory, Sovereignty, and the Domestication of Global Life; R.Ashley - Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics; A.Wendt - DISCIPLINE AND POWER - The Theory of International Politics: 1919-1969; H.Bull - An American Social Science: International Relations; S.Hoffmann - The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a Future Archeologist of International Savoir Faire; H.Alker & T.Biersteker - REASON AND HISTORY - International Institutions: Two Approaches; R.Keohane - History and Structure in the Theory of International Relations; R.B.J.Walker - Feminist Themes and International Relations; J.B.Elshtain - REINVESTIGATIONS - A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology; J.Der Derian