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This concise introductory text for students approaching the subject of international relations for the first time take as its starting point the main theoretical approaches which have been adopted historically and shows how these can be applied to understanding the central questions of war and peace, poverty and wealth, economic management and global governance confronting the world today. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout with increased coverage of globalization and of the emerging 21st-century world order.

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• Preface to the Third Edition(p. viii)
• Preface to the Second Edition(p. x)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. xii)
• List of Abbreviations(p. xvi)
• 1 Introduction: Defining International Relations(p. 1)
• Perspectives and theories(p. 7)
• Conclusion(p. 15)
• 2 The Development of International Relations Theory in the Twentieth Century(p. 19)
• Introduction(p. 19)
• Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline(p. 20)
• The 'realist' critique of liberal internationalism(p. 24)
• The post-war synthesis(p. 28)
• International Relations and the behavioural sciences(p. 31)
• Challenges to the realist synthesis(p. 33)
• Pluralism and complex interdependence(p. 35)
• 3 International Relations Theory Today(p. 40)
• Introduction: rational choice theory and its critics(p. 40)
• From realism to neorealism(p. 41)
• From neorealism to neoliberalism(p. 45)
• Constructivism and the 'English School'(p. 48)
• Critical, poststructuralist and 'postmodern' international thought(p. 52)
• Conclusion(p. 58)
• 4 The State and Foreign Policy(p. 63)
• Introduction(p. 63)
• The state and International Relations(p. 63)
• Foreign and domestic policy: the 'decision' as focus(p. 69)
• Conclusion: from foreign policy to power(p. 77)
• 5 Power and Security(p. 80)
• Introduction: statecraft, influence and power(p. 80)
• Dimensions of power(p. 81)
• Power, fear and insecurity(p. 91)
• Conclusion: managing insecurity(p. 94)
• 6 The Balance of Power and War(p. 97)
• Introduction(p. 97)
• The balance of power(p. 98)
• The political conception of war(p. 103)
• War in the twentieth century(p. 106)
• Conclusion: the end of state-centric International Relations?(p. 111)
• 7 Global Governance(p. 116)
• Introduction: sovereignty, anarchy and global governance(p. 116)
• Functionalism(p. 118)
• Integration theory, federalism and neofunctionalism(p. 122)
• Global economic institutions: Bretton Woods and after(p. 125)
• International regimes and regime theory(p. 129)
• Global governance and (collective) security(p. 133)
• 8 The Global Economy(p. 141)
• Introduction(p. 141)
• The growth of the world economy(p. 142)
• Problems and perspectives(p. 145)
• Structuralism(p. 151)
• The new global economy(p. 156)
• The end of the South?(p. 159)
• 9 Globalization(p. 164)
• Introduction(p. 164)
• A new economy?(p. 165)
• Neoliberalism and its critics(p. 167)
• New global problems - 'Westfailure'?(p. 172)
• Global civil society?(p. 178)
• 10 The International Politics of Identity(p. 185)
• Introduction(p. 185)
• Politics in industrial societies(p. 186)
• Identity politics post-1989(p. 190)
• Globalization and postindustrial society(p. 193)
• Democracy promotion, Asian values and the 'clash of civilizations'(p. 197)
• Pluralism and international society(p. 201)
• Conclusion(p. 203)
• 11 International Relations and the Individual: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian War(p. 207)
• Introduction(p. 207)
• Universal human rights(p. 208)
• Rights and international law(p. 213)
• Humanitarian intervention(p. 221)
• Conclusion(p. 228)
• 12 US Hegemony and World Order(p. 232)
• Introduction(p. 232)
• An American century - again?(p. 232)
• Ideology and US strategic doctrine(p. 237)
• The significance of 9/11(p. 240)
• The United States and Europe: Mars and Venus?(p. 242)

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CHOICE Review

Brown (Univ. of Southampton and author of the excellent International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches, 1992) believes students are introduced to international relations (IR) with insufficient theory. This brief conceptual IR text fills that need. Brown emphasizes past and current theoretical debates in the field; realist perspectives on the state, power, and national security; international economic relations; and the emergence of new disciplinary issues, including global ecology, migration, and gender. This odd book is too brief and abstract to be useful to beginning students and insufficiently comprehensive and scholarly for advanced students. It includes an extended bibliography and recommended readings at the end of each chapter, but there are no footnotes. A more useful introduction to traditional IR theory is James Dougherty and Rober Pfaltzgraff's Contending Theories of International Relations (3rd ed., 1990). Brown's study might be useful as a supplementary text in an introductory IR course, but it will have limited use in most academic libraries. Undergraduates. M. Amstutz; Wheaton College