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• About the authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Map
• 1 Doing IR: How to study international politics
• Theories, methods, and core concepts: Why do I have to struggle with them?
• How do I find a productive research question in International Relations?
• ‘Help! There is no literature on my topic!’: A small guide to acquiring knowledge in IR
• Conclusion
• 2 The realisms
• Thucydides and the cynicism of power
• Realism and idealism
• The classical realism of Hans J. Morgenthau
• The neorealism of Kenneth Waltz
• Offensive and defensive realism
• Any future for realism? Recent developments
• Critiquing the realisms
• Conclusion
• 3 Liberal institutionalism: International organizations, regimes, and the liberal world order
• (IR)relevance of international institutions today: The case of the WHO
• Core concepts of liberal institutionalism
• Why institutions are so important: The prisoner’s dilemma
• Theoretical challenges to liberal institutionalism
• Recent developments in liberal institutionalism
• The end of the liberal international order?
• Conclusion
• 4 Liberalism: Domestic theories of International Relations
• Why did Turkey intervene in Syria?
• Core ideas of liberal-domestic IR theory
• Domestic political structures and international politics
• Selection: How do domestic interests become international preferences?
• Externalization and two-level games: The representation of states’ external preferences
• Democratic peace theory
• Conclusion
• 5 Marxist approaches
• Money makes the world go round
• Basic principles of Marxist approaches
• Imperialism, old and new
• The centre and the periphery
• Hegemony
• Critical theory
• Recent directions in Marxist IR: Globalization
• Criticisms of Marxist IR
• Conclusion
• 6 Constructivism and poststructuralism
• The power of ideas
• Foundations of constructivism
• Anarchy is what states make of it
• Identities in the Israel–Palestine conflict
• Role theory in IR: Are Germany and Japan still ‘civilian powers’?
• Norms in International Relations
• Poststructuralism: The world as text
• Discourse analysis: A core methodology of poststructuralism
• Practices in International Relations
• Conclusion
• 7 Feminist theories of International Relations
• Feminism: Gender in IR
• Basic principles of a feminist approach
• Liberal-feminist approaches
• Marxist-feminist IR
• Poststructuralist feminism
• Recent directions in feminist theory: Intersectional feminist IR
• Criticism
• Conclusion
• 8 Postcolonial approaches to global politics
• The impact of the colonial past on International Relations today
• Origins and basic principles of postcolonial approaches
• The Eurocentrism of International Relations
• Postcolonial readings of modern history
• The world is still colonial
• Recent directions in postcolonial approaches
• Criticisms of postcolonial approaches
• Conclusion
• 9 Global and international political economy
• From the global to the everyday: The EU–India free trade agreement and IPE
• Classical theories of political economy
• Interstate competition and the Great Depression: Realist/nationalist views on IPE
• Interdependence and globalization: Global trade policy in a liberal institutionalist perspective
• Domestic foundations of global economic policy: Liberalism and IPE
• International monetary policy and the construction of money
• A constructivist explanation for the emergence of the euro
• Critical perspectives on international financial policy
• Conclusion
• 10 International security
• Dimensions of international security
• Traditional approaches to security
• What does ‘security’ do? The contribution of securitization theory
• Poststructuralism and security
• Understanding terrorism and international security: ‘Traditional’ vs critical approaches
• Cybersecurity and IR theory
• Conclusion
• 11 Regionalism in global politics
• Introduction
• Regionalism: Development of a research agenda
• Research approaches and analytical tools
• The role of different actors
• Analysing regional integration through the lens of International Relations theories
• Conclusion
• 12 The environment and International Relations in the Anthropocene
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP)
• The development of global environmental policy
• IR theories and international environmental policy
• Negative externalities and the tragedy of the commons
• Global environmental regimes
• Climate change as a problem of international politics
• Environmental norm change and global diffusion
• Conclusion
• 13 Human rights and migration
• Human rights and international politics
• The emergence of the international human rights regime
• Human rights in times of war
• Human rights in peacetime
• Migration, human rights, and International Relations
• Human rights and IR theories
• Conclusion
• 14 Development and International Relations
• Global inequalities
• Development theories and International Relations
• IR theories and development
• Conclusion
• 15 Global health
• Will the world finally eradicate polio?
• The globalization of health risks
• Institutional complexity in global health governance
• Global inequalities and invisibilities: Critical approaches and reactions to Ebola
• Interpreting global reactions to Covid-19 through IR theories
• Conclusion
• References
• Index