Handbook of International Relations

This major new handbook provides a state of the art review and indispensable guide to the study of international relations. It draws together a team of the world's leading and outstanding scholars to provide the first authoritative and comprehensive survey to the field. Divided into three parts, the volume reviews both the historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. Part I: introduces the major approaches within the field and unpacks many of the ongoing debates within the discipline including those between rationalist and constructivist approaches. Part II: moves on to explore the key concepts and contextual factors important to the subject from concepts like the state and power, to international and transnational actors, debates around globalization, and contending feminist perspectives. Part III: reviews a number of the key substantive issues in international relations and is designed to complement the analytical tools and perspectives presented in Parts I and II. Examples of the many topics included are: foreign policy; war and peace; security; nationalism and ethnicity; finance; trade;