Walter Carlsnaes & Thomas Risse 
Handbook of International Relations 

The original Handbook of International Relations was the first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the field of international relations. In this eagerly-awaited new edition, the Editors have once again drawn together a team of the world′s leading scholars of international relations to provide a state-of-the-art review and indispensable guide to the field, ensuring its position as the pre-eminent volume of its kind.

The Second Edition has been expanded to 33 chapters and fully revised, with new chapters on the following contemporary topics:

– Normative Theory in IR

– Critical Theories and Poststructuralism

– Efforts at Theoretical Synthesis in IR: Possibilities and Limits

– International Law and International Relations

– Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies

– Comparative Regionalism

– Nationalism and Ethnicity

– Geopolitics in the 21st Century

– Terrorism and International Relations

– Religion and International Politics

– International Migration

A truly international undertaking, this Handbook reviews the many historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and covers the key contemporary topics of research and debate today.

The Handbook of International Relations remains an essential benchmark publication for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics in politics and international relations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

On the History and Historiography of International Relations – Brian C. Schmidt

Philosophy of Social Science and International Relations – Colin Wight

Ethics and Norms in International Relations – Andrew Hurrell & Terry Macdonald

Rational Choice and International Relations – Duncan Snidal

Constructivism in International Relations: Sources, Contributions and Debates – Emanuel Adler

Critical Theory, Post-Structuralism and Post-Colonialism – Maja Zehfuss

Feminist Perspectives on International Relations – Laura Sjoberg & J. Ann Tickner

Psychological Explanations of International Decision-Making and Collective Behavior – Janice Gross Stein

Theoretical Pluralism in IR: Possibilities and Limits – Jeffrey T. Checkel

PART TWO: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

State, Sovereignty and Territory – Thomas J. Biersteker

Power and International Relations – David A. Baldwin

Foreign Policy – Walter Carlsnaes

International Organizations and Institutions – Lisa L. Martin & Beth A. Simmons

International Law – Beth Simmons

Negotiation and Bargaining – John Odell

Globalization and Global Governance – Michael Z rn

Transnational Actors and World Politics – Thomas Risse

Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies – Fabrizio Gilardi

Domestic Politics and International Relations – Kenneth Schultz

Comparative Regionalism: European Integration and beyond – Tanja A. Börzel

Nationalism and Ethnicity in International Relations – Lars-Erik Cederman

Great Power Hierarchies and Strategies in 21st Century World Politics – David A. Lake

PART THREE: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Interstate War and Peace – Jack S. Levy

Security Co-Operation – Harald M ller

Terrorism and Counterterrorism – Ethan Buena de Mesquita

Civil Wars, Conflict Resolution and Bargaining Theory – Barbara F. Walter

Religion and International Relations Theory – Monica Duffy Toft

International Finance – Michael Tomz

International Trade – Helen V. Milner

International Migration – Gallya Lahav & Sandra Lavenex

Development and International Relations – Jana Hönke & Markus Lederer

International Environmental Politics – Ronald B. Mitchell

International Human Rights – Hans Peter Schmitz and Kathryn Sikkink

Über den Autor

Beth Simmons is a Professor of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Previous positions include Assistant Professor at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include international law, international human rights, and international political economy. She is author of Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939 (1995), and is currently working on a book length manuscript on compliance with international human rights obligations. She is a co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of International Relations (2002).