"Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in internationalrelations"--
Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations. New entries include the following:
- Anthropocene
- Authoritarian populism
- Borders
- Brexit
- Dignity
- Hierarchy
- Intersectionality
- Pandemic
- Postmodern warfare
- Race war
- Resilience
Featuring suggestions for further reading as well as a unique guide to websites on international relations, this accessible guide is an invaluable aid to an understanding of this expanding field, ideal for student and non-specialist alike. It will serve as a vital reference text for undergraduate IR courses.
Featuring 16 new entries,
International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs.
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'This is a freshly updated edition of an already popular book, adding recent ideas like resilience and the Anthropocene to the established IR vocabulary. It manages to be clear and concise while covering each topic in sufficient detail as to offer an excellent guide to the discipline.'
Professor Jonathan Joseph, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK.
Preface, List of Key Concepts, Introduction, AFRICAN UNION: Alliance,
Anarchy, Anthropocene, Appeasement, Arab League, Arab Spring, Arms control,
Arms trade, Authoritarian populism, BALANCE OF POWER: Borders, Bretton Woods,
Brexit, Bush Doctrine, CAPITAL CONTROLS: Capitalism, Citizenship, Clash of
civilisations, Climate change, Coercion, Cold war, Collective security,
Communism, Communitarianism, Concert of powers, Constructivism, Containment,
Cosmopolitanism, Crisis, Critical theory, DEBT TRAP: Decolonisation,
Democratic peace, Democratisation, Dependency, Deterrence, Development,
Diaspora, Digital divide, Dignity, Diplomacy, Disarmament, EMBEDDED
LIBERALISM: Emotions, End of history, Enemy combatant, English School, Ethnic
cleansing, Ethnicity, Euro, European Union (EU), Exploitation,
Extraterritoriality, FAILED STATE: Feminism, Foreign aid, Foreign direct
investment (FDI), Free trade, Functionalism, GENDER: Genocide, Geopolitics,
Global civil society, Global financial crisis, Global governance, Global
justice, Global South, Globalisation, Governmentality, Great powers, Group of
twenty (G-20), HEGEMONIC STABILITY THEORY: Hegemony, Hierarchy, Historical
sociology, Human rights, Human security, Humanitarian intervention, IDEALISM:
Imperialism, Integration, Interdependence, International Criminal Court
(ICC), International criminal tribunals, International law, International
Monetary Fund (IMF), International political economy, Intersectionality,
International society, Irredentism, Isolationism, JIHAD: Just war, LEAGUE OF
NATIONS: Legitimacy, Levels of analysis, Liberal internationalism, Loose
nukes, MANAGED TRADE: Marxism, Mercantilism, Mercenary, Mercosur,
Misperception, Modernisation theory, Multilateralism, Multinational
corporation (MNC), Mutually assured destruction (MAD), NATION STATE: National
interest, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Newly industrialising countries (NICs),
Non-governmental organisation (NGO), Non-tariff barrier (NTB), North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), Nuclear proliferation, ORDER: Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC), PANDEMIC: Peace-building, Peacekeeping, Peace of
Westphalia, Peace studies, Political risk, Population growth,
Postcolonialism, Postmodern warfare, Postmodernism, Power, Practice turn,
Pre-emption, Preventive diplomacy, Prisoners' dilemma, Public goods, QUEER
THEORY, RACE WAR: Realism, Reciprocity, Recognition, Refugees, Regime,
Regional trade blocs, Regionalism, Relative gains/absolute gains, Resilience,
Responsibility to protect (R2P), Rogue state, SAFE HAVEN: Sanctions,
Secession, Security, Security dilemma, Self-determination, Sovereignty,
Structural adjustment programme (SAP), Structural violence, Superpower,
Sustainable development, TERRORISM: Theory, Torture, Tragedy of the commons,
UNILATERALISM: , United Nations (UN), WAR: War crime, War on terror, Women in
development (WID), World Bank, World-system theory, World Trade Organization
(WTO), Appendix, Bibliography, Index.
Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. Among his books are South Sudans Fateful Struggle (2023), Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare (2020), Handbook of Critical International Relations (2020), and Decency and Difference (2019).
Alexander D. Barder is Associate Professor of International Relations and Graduate Director at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His most recent book is Global Race War: International Political and Racial Hierarchy (2021).
