I Realism is now both the dominant paradigm in the study of international relations and the
most challenged. During the 1970s, critics turned to bureaucratic politics and cognitive …

This new textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory,
providing readers with critical conceptual tools to develop their expertise. The author …

This book has been three years in the making. A number of chapters began life as shorter
entries in the Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics (2005) …

Redefining security has become what one scholar aptly calls “something of a cottage
industry”(Baldwin, 1997: 5). The major debate within security studies concerns the analytical …

bution to the growing body of literature reflecting this cultural turn in IPE/IR. It is unusual in
that it makes a conceptual contribution to the study of ideas by suggesting an eclectic …

History and International Relations Page 1 Page 2 HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS What are the lessons of history for the study of international politics? Do …

American scholars routinely characterize the study of international relations as divided
between various Kuhnian “paradigms” or Lakatosian “research programmes.” Although most …

International Relations scholars have long debated whether the American public is allergic
to realism, which raises the question of how they would “contract” it in the first place. We …

This article examines the link between disciplinary identity formation, history creation and
progress by undertaking an excavation of the idealist-realist debate in International …

The realist theory of international relations is based on a particularly gloomy set of
assumptions about universal human motives. Believing people to be essentially asocial …