Richard Devetak

Jack Donnelly

Jacqui True

Scott Burchill

Christian Reus-Smit

Terry Nardin

Matthew Paterson

Andrew Linklater

The fully updated and revised fifth edition of this widely-used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field. Updated throughout to take account of major events and developments, such as the Arab Spring, it also includes new material on neo-realism and neo-liberalism, postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism.

Theories of International Relations

Danu Poyner

As others have noted, the chief value in this book is its treatment of less dominant approaches such as critical theory, feminism and green theory. These are well-written and researched and throw down significant challenges to the dominant approaches, which it would have been nice to hear responses to. Overall however it declines to draw any weighty conclusions or offer a synthesis regarding the discipline or its object of study from the various perspectives it surveys. Some will no doubt find this appropriate in a textbook; others such as myself may find that opting to take no position is still taking a position of sorts, and an ultimately unsatisfying one.

Theories of International Relations

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