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• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I Debates
• 1 Positivism and beyond
• What’s at stake in the epistemology debate?
• The history of positivism
• Three epistemological positions
• Contemporary epistemological debates
• Positivism in international theory
• Positivism and beyond
• II Legacies
• 2 The timeless wisdom of realism?
• A very brief intellectual history of realism
• The distinguishing features of realism
• The place of realism in the discipline ofInternational Relations
• The timeless wisdom of realism?
• 3 The growing relevance of pluralism?
• The intellectual heritage of pluralism
• The re-emergence of pluralism in internationalrelations
• The growing relevance of pluralism?
• Conclusion
• 4 The inter-state structure of the modern world-system
• The modern world-system
• The inter-state system
• 5 The accomplishments of international political economy
• Introduction
• Some history
• Liberalism
• Realism
• Domestic politics
• Conclusion
• 6 The continued significance of positivism?
• Introduction
• The nature of a moderate positivism
• Quantification in International Relations
• Rational choice theory
• Morality and positivism
• Conclusion
• III Silences
• 7 The rise and fall of the inter-paradigm debate
• What was the inter-paradigm debate?
• How did it differ from the other three great debates?
• How did it start?
• How did it end?
• What’s wrong with the inter-paradigm debate?
• 8 Margins, silences and bottom rungs: how to overcome the underestimation of power in the study of i
• 9 Is there a classical international theory?
• Martin Wight on international theory
• The classical approach
• The classical approach and modern social science
• Realism and the ‘English School’
• The classical tradition and post-positivist theories
• IV Openings
• 10 Authoritarian and liberal militarism: a contribution from comparative and historical sociology
• Introduction
• Constitutional and absolutist states
• Varieties of successor states and militarism
• Modern Western militarism: 1. Nation-statism
• Modern Western militarism: 2. Civil society militarism
• Conclusion
• 11 The achievements of post-structuralism
• 12 The contributions of feminist theory to international relations
• Feminists theorise
• Genealogical beholdings of gender in InternationalRelations
• From awareness to theorising
• There is no Eureka at the end . . .
• 13 The achievements of critical theory
• Subject and object
• Critique of the immutability thesis
• The reconstruction of historical materialism: fromproduction to discourse ethics
• Discourse ethics: implications for politics
• Conclusion
• V Directions
• 14 The last post?
• 15 Probing puzzles persistently: a desirable but improbable future for IR theory
• Puzzlement
• Precursors to theory
• Some routes to puzzlement
• 16 The future of international relations: fears and hopes
• Three-quarters of a century of IR: a balance-sheet
• Topics old and new
• The future: theoretical prospects
• The future: four hopes
• Conclusion
• 17 75 years on: rewriting the subject’s past – reinventing its future
• 18 ‘All these theories yet the bodies keep piling up’: theories, theorists, theorising
• Theory as a tool
• Theory as critique
• Theory as everyday practice
• All these theories yet the bodies keep piling up5
• Index