International Politics
Classic and Contemporary Readings
Second Edition
Edited by:
- Scott P. Handler
- Robert T. Person - United States Military Academy, USA
January 2021 | 456 pages | CQ Press
Why do states do what they do? Who are the relevant nonstate actors in international politics and why do they do what they do? What causes conflict and cooperation in the international system? These are some of the most basic questions that the discipline of International Relations (IR) seeks to answer; they are also the questions that drive the objectives, organization and content of this book.
International Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Second Edition seeks to help students engage critically with some of the world’s most challenging questions through the use of leading classic and contemporary scholarship in the field of international relations. The first five chapters of the book explore the leading theoretical traditions in international relations, while subsequent chapters explore the themes of international security, international political economy, and contemporary challenges in international relations. This organization makes the book easy to use as standalone text or alongside core text. Class-tested on over 10,000 students in the last decade, this text was built from the ground up to introduce students to the traditions and new foundations of international relations as well to the principles of intellectually rigorous thought.
International Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Second Edition seeks to help students engage critically with some of the world’s most challenging questions through the use of leading classic and contemporary scholarship in the field of international relations. The first five chapters of the book explore the leading theoretical traditions in international relations, while subsequent chapters explore the themes of international security, international political economy, and contemporary challenges in international relations. This organization makes the book easy to use as standalone text or alongside core text. Class-tested on over 10,000 students in the last decade, this text was built from the ground up to introduce students to the traditions and new foundations of international relations as well to the principles of intellectually rigorous thought.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - The Science of Politics
Stephen M. Walt
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Kenneth N. Waltz
Graham T. Allison
Chapter 2 - Realism
Hans J. Morgenthau
Kenneth N. Waltz
John Mearsheimer
Stephen M. Walt
Thucydides
Chapter 3 - Liberalism
Scott A. Silverstone
Robert O. Keohane
Norman Angell
Richard Rosecrance
Dale C. Copeland
Bruce M. Russett
Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder
Chapter 4 - Constructivism
Ian Hurd
Nina Tannenwald
Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink
Amartya Sen
United States Government
Chapter 5 - Alternative Approaches in International Relations Theory
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Young Namkoong
Diana Thorburn
Dan Reiter
Kelebogile Zvobgo and Meredith Loken
Chapter 6 - International Security
Robert Jervis
Scott A. Silverstone
Thomas C. Schelling
Kenneth N. Waltz
Scott D. Sagan
Dan Reiter
Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Jeffrey Ian Ross
Chapter 7 - International Political Economy
Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern
Stephen D. Krasner
Witold J. Henisz and Edward D. Mansfield
Alan S. Blinder
Fred Hu and Michael Spence
Jacob J. Lew and Richard Nephew
Chapter 8 - Contemporary Challenges in International Relations
Charles T. Call
Robert I. Rotberg
Joshua Busby
U.S. Department of Defense
Michael Sulmeyer
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Hal Brands and Eric Edelman