This volume outlines the methods appropriate to an English school understanding of international relations and their assumptions about how knowledge of the 'social' is gained. It outlines what is involved in 'an English school approach' and what this approach delivers in the contemporary understanding of international relations.
"This book provides an innovative interpretation of Hans J. Morgenthaus contribution to international relations, and argues that the concepts of meaning, power as meaning imposition, disenchantment and re-enchantment are central to Morgenthaus theory"--Provided by publisher.
Diplomacy does not take place simply between states but wherever people live in different groups. Paul Sharp argues that the demand for diplomacy, and the need for the insights of diplomatic theory, are on the rise. In contrast to conventional texts which use international relations theories to make sense of what diplomacy and diplomats do, this book explores what diplomacy and diplomats can co…
Contains essays that cover a variety of issues including diplomacy, alienation, terrorism, intelligence, national security, various forms of warfare, the role of information technology in international relations, poststructuralist theory, and the military-entertainment-media matrix.
An edited volume of essays demonstrating the importance of classical thinkers in international relations.
"World political processes, such as wars and globalization, are engendered by complex sets of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of International Relations, what the concept of cause means or entails has remained an unresolved and contested matter. In recent decades ferocious debates have surrounded the idea of causal analysis, some scholars even q…