2. Realism
Charles L. Glaser
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter examines realism as a dominant explanation of why and how states have sought security. It first considers the basic features of realist theory, including its emphasis on the ...
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2. Realism
Charles L. Glaser
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter examines realism as a dominant explanation of why and how states have sought security. It first considers the basic features of realist theory, including its emphasis on the ...
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2. Theories of US foreign policy
Brian Schmidt
in US Foreign Policy (3rd edn)
This chapter considers some of the competing theories that have been proposed to explain US foreign policy. It first provides an overview of some of the obstacles to constructing a theory ...
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2. Realism and foreign policy
William C. Wohlforth
in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3rd edn)
This chapter considers how familiarity with realist theory improves foreign policy analysis (FPA), focusing on two features of realism that are often in tension with each other: its firm ...
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1. Theories of US foreign policy
Brian Schmidt
in US Foreign Policy (2nd edn)
This chapter examines some of the competing theories that have been advanced to explain U.S. foreign policy. In trying to explain the foreign policy of the United States, a number of ...
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3. Structural Realism
John J. Mearsheimer
in International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (4th edn)
This chapter examines why states pursue power from the perspective of structural realism. It considers a body of realist theories that argue that states have deep concern for the balance of ...
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3. Realism
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen, and Jørgen Møller
in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (7th edn)
This chapter examines the realist tradition in international relations (IR). It highlights an important dichotomy in realist thought between classical realism and contemporary realism, ...
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21. Does Strategic Studies Have a Future?
Lawrence Freedman
in Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (5th edn)
This chapter reflects on the question of whether strategic studies has a future as a field of academic study. It first considers the early development of strategic studies and how it became ...
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3. Realism
Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen
in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (6th edn)
This chapter examines the realist tradition in international relations (IR). It highlights an important dichotomy in realist thought between classical realism and contemporary realism, ...
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1. Introduction:: What is Security Studies?
Alan Collins
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This text provides an introduction to Security Studies, the sub-discipline of International Relations that deals with the study of security. War and the threat to use force are part of the ...
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6. International Political Economy: Classical Theories
Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen
in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (6th edn)
This chapter examines the three most important classical theories within the field of International Political Economy (IPE): mercantilism, economic liberalism, and neo-Marxism. It also ...
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5. International Society
Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen
in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (6th edn)
This chapter examines the International Society tradition of international relations (IR). International Society, also known as the ‘English School’, is an approach to world politics that ...
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Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (6th edn)
Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen
Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse ...
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1. Why Study IR?
Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen
in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (6th edn)
Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse ...
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2. IR as an Academic Subject
Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen
in Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (6th edn)
This chapter examines how thinking about international relations (IR) has evolved since IR became an academic subject around the time of the First World War. The focus is on four ...
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8. Realism
Tim Dunne and Brian C. Schmidt
in The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (8th edn)
This chapter examines the claim that realism offers the most powerful explanation for the state of war that is the regular condition of life in the international system. It first provides ...
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2. Forms of Knowledge: Laws, Explanation, and Interpretation in the Study of the Social World
Sandra Halperin and Oliver Heath
in Political Research: Methods and Practical Skills (2nd edn)
This chapter focuses on fundamental assumptions that researchers make about how we can know and develop knowledge about the social world, such as assumptions about the nature of human ...
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International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (4th edn)
Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds)
The fourth edition of this text provides coverage of international relations theories and arguments. The chapters explore the full spectrum of theoretical perspectives and debates, ranging ...
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4. Liberalism
Bruce Russett
in International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (4th edn)
This chapter examines the expansion of three central phenomena associated with liberalism and its emphasis on the potentially peace-promoting effects of domestic and transnational ...
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Introduction
Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield, and Tim Dunne
in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3rd edn)
This text examines the dynamics that shape foreign policy using international relations (IR) theory. Combining theories and case studies with actors, it explores the grand principles at ...
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