International Relations

Theories and Approaches
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-93-91370-99-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

A complete compendium on theories and approaches to international relations covering debates surrounding the major paradigms and latest developments.

Organized around the three paradigms of the discipline of international relations (IR)—realism, pluralism and globalism—this textbook offers a comprehensive and exhaustive coverage of the theories and approaches to IR, including their critiques and evaluations. By treating these theories and approaches under the canopy of the paradigms rather than in isolation, the book facilitates better understanding of their fundamental commonalities and divergences. It addresses the ongoing lively debates both inside and among the paradigms as well as the excessive American-centricity and Eurocentrism of the discipline of IR.

Written as an integrated, self-sufficient unit, this textbook will be a valuable companion for inquisitive undergraduate and postgraduate students, research scholars and teachers, who need not search for additional books and references.

Key Features:

• Careful organization of 15 theories into 3 positivist paradigmatic divisions, and treatment of 4 post-positivist theories to offer a comprehensive and logical approach to the entire subject

• Focus on non-Western traditions of IR thinking such as Kautilya from India, Han Fei from China and reference to India in the study of old regionalism

• Systematic browsing of relevant theoretical literature and current citations for every theoretical point made

• Additional features such as Word Help boxes and review questions to enhance teaching–learning experience

• Six chapters available on the companion website to address the needs of advanced readers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukhopadhyay, Amartya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
SECTION I. Theories of the Realist Paradigm
IA. Realist Theory and Its Variants
Early Classical Realism
Geopolitics
Neoclassical Realism
Neorealism: Kenneth Waltz, His Images and Level of Analysis
Strategic Realism and Offensive Realism
Internal and External Critiques of Realism
IB. Systems Theory and Its Variants
General Systems Theory and Morton Kaplan’s Application in IR
Systems Theory: From Modelski to Singer
Critique and Evaluation of Formulations of Systems Theory
IC. Game Theory
Game Theory or the Theory of Interdependent Decisions
SECTION II. Theories of the Pluralist Paradigm
Decision-making Theory: From Snyder to Allison and Beyond
Theories of Integration and Regionalism
Integration Theory: The Four Schools and Beyond
Theories of Regionalism: Early, Old and New
Theories of Interdependence
Regime Theory
SECTION III. Theories of the Globalist Paradigm
Marxism and Its Variants in International Relations Theory
Dependency Theory
World Systems Theory
International Political Economy
Gender, Feminism and Women in International Relations
Green Politics
Globalization and International Relations Theory
SECTION IV. Postpositivist Theories of the Middle and Left
The English School as the Middle Way: Origins, Evolution and Spillover
Critical Theory: Postpositivism in International Relations
Constructivism in International Relations as Another Middle Ground
Postmodernism or Post-structuralism in International Relations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mukhopadhyay, Amartya
Amartya Mukhopadhyay is a retired professor of political science and one-term chair at the University of Calcutta. He was formerly professor of political science, departmental chair for seven terms and dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce, at the University of Kalyani. He has published in diverse areas, including social and political thought (in book Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses, 2010); postcolonial theory (in book India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond, 2013); public policy analysis (in book Politics of Implementation: Mass Transportation Policy for Calcutta 1947–1989, 2002, and ‘Politics of Power Crisis in West Bengal: Linkages between Technical and Political Aspects of Policy Making’, in Politics in West Bengal: Institutions, Processes and Problems, ed. Rakhahari Chatterji, 1985); Indian politics (as in ‘Bearing Unusual Fruit: What Ails the Civil Society in (West) Bengal’, in Rethinking India’s Democracy, eds Malyasree Mukherjee and Nivedita Saha, 2017, and ‘Civil Social Initiatives in Bengal’, in West Bengal under the Left, 1977–2011, eds Rakhahari Chatterji and Partha Pratim Basu, 2018); IR theory and practice (in ‘Constriction of Choices and the Kashmir Solution’, in Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era, ed. Arun Kumar Banerji, 2000, and ‘ Theories of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Indian Context’, in Socialist Perspective XII, nos. 1 and 2, June 1984); and Bengali and English literature. He is a regular contributor to various webzines on cultural aspects of Bengali and Indian life. At present, he is engaged in and is much advanced in his translation of iconic Bengali folk tales and has taken to writing a novel. Father of two well-established children, Mukhopadhyay spends his time in reading, writing, performing daily chores and taking care of his wife. Mukhopadhyay is a loner and has modern Bengali poetry as his lifetime obsession.