International relations affects everyone's lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and freedoms, and the environment they share. This book explores international relations' central concerns with the changing way that political authority is organised globally, and provides the theoretical tools to understand the dynamics of the field.
Critically evaluates how international relations theories have conceived culture, and advances a new account of cultural diversity and international order.
Exploring the pivotal role of individual rights, this book delves into how these struggles have shaped the modern global system of sovereign states. It examines historical contexts and key events that influenced the evolution of state sovereignty, highlighting the ongoing impact of these rights on contemporary governance and international relations. Through a detailed analysis, it reveals the complex interplay between individual liberties and state authority throughout history.
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of international relations. Arguably the most impressive collection of international relations scholars ever brought together within one volume, the Handbook debates the nature of the field itself, critically engages with the major theories, surveys a wide spectrum of methods, addresses the relationship between scholarship and policy making, and examines the field's relation with cognate disciplines. The Handbook takes as its central themes the interaction between empirical and normative inquiry that permeates all theorizing in the field and the way in which contending approaches have shaped one another. In doing so, it provides an authoritative and critical introduction to the subject and establishes a sense of the field as a dynamic realm of argument and inquiry. The Oxford Handbook of International Relations will be essential reading for all of those interested in the advanced study of global politics and international affairs.
Seeks to explain why different systems of sovereign states have built different types of fundamental institutions to govern interstate relations.