Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ch. 1. Between Utopia and Reality: The Practical Discourses of International Relations / Christian Reus-Smit & Duncan Snidal -- Pt. 2. Imagining the discipline -- Ch. 2. The State and International Relations / David A. Lake -- Ch. 3. From International Relations to Global Society / Michael Barnett & Kathryn Sikkink -- Ch. 4. The Point Is not just to Explain the World but to Change it / Robert Cox -- Ch. 5. A Disabling Discipline? / Phillip Darby -- Pt. 3. Major theoretical perspectives -- Ch. 6. Eclectic Theorizing in the Study and Practice of International Relations / Peter Katzenstein & Rudra Sil. Ch. 7. Realism / William C. Wohlforth -- Ch. 8. The Ethics of Realism / Jack Donnelly -- Ch. 9. Marxism / Benno Teschke -- Ch. 10. The Ethics of Marxism / Nicholas Rengger -- Ch. 11. Neoliberal Institutionalism / Arthur A. Stein -- Ch. 12. The Ethics of Neoliberal Institutionalism / James L. Richardson -- Ch.13. The New Liberalism / Andrew Moravcsik -- Ch. 14. The Ethics of the New Liberalism / Gerry Simpson -- Ch. 15. The English School / Tim Dunne -- Ch. 16. The Ethics of the English School / Molly Cochran -- Ch. 17. Constructivism / Ian Hurd -- Ch. 18. The Ethics of Constructivism / Richard Price -- Ch. 19. Critical Theory / Richard Shapcott -- Ch. 20. Richard Shapcott -- Ch. 21. Postmodernism / Anthony Burke -- Ch. 22. The Ethics of Postmodernism / Peter Lawler -- Ch. 23. Feminism / Sandra Whitworth -- Ch. 24. The Ethics of Feminism / Jacqui True -- Pt. 4. The question of method -- Ch. 25. Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice / Andrew H. Kydd -- Ch. 26. Sociological Approaches / Friedrich Kratochwil -- Ch. 27. Psychological Approaches / James Goldgeier & Philip Tetlock -- Ch. 28. Quantitative Approaches / Edward D. Mansfield & Jon C. Pevehouse -- Ch. 29. Case Study Methods / Andrew Bennett & Colin Elman -- Ch. 30. Historical Methods / Joel Quirk -- Pt. 5. Bridging the subfield boundaries -- Ch. 31. International Political Economy / John Ravenhill -- Ch. 32. Strategic Studies / Robert Ayson -- Ch. 33. Foreign-Policy Decision-Making / Douglas T. Stuart -- Ch. 34. International Ethics / Terry Nardin -- Ch. 35. International Law / Michael Byers -- Pt. 6. The scholar and the policy-maker -- Ch. 36. Scholarship and Policy-Making: Who Speaks Truth to Whom? / Henry R. Nau -- Ch. 37. International Relations: The Relevance of Theory to Practice / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- Pt. 7. The question of diversity -- Ch. 38. International Relations from below / David L. Blaney & Naeem Inayatullah -- Ch. 39. International Relations Theory from a Former Hegemon / Richard Little -- Pt. 8. Old and new -- Ch. 40. The Concept of Power and the (Un)discipline of International Relations / Janice Bially Mattern -- Ch. 41. Locating Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Agency in International Relations / Toni Erskine -- Ch. 42. Big Questions in the Study of World Politics / Robert O. Keohane -- Ch. 43. The Failure of Static and the Need for Dynamic Approaches to International Relations / Richard Rosecrance -- Ch. 44. Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations / Steve Smith.

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