Books in the Themes in International Relations series

In this fully updated and revised edition, the authors explore the evolution, nature and function of international law in world politics and situate international law in its historical and political context. They propose three interdisciplinary 'lenses' (realist, liberal and constructivist) through which to view the role of international law in world politics and suggest that the concept of an international society provides the overall context within which international legal developments occur. These theoretical perspectives offer different ways of looking at international law in terms of what it is, how it works and how it changes. Topics covered include the use of force, international crimes, human rights, international trade and the environment. The new edition also contains more material on non-western perspectives, international institutions and non-state actors and a new bibliography. Each chapter features discussion questions and guides to further reading.

This textbook enables students to apply the theory and approach of International Relations to environmental challenges facing a complex international political system.

This fourth edition of David P. Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative and timely analysis of the place of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics. Updated throughout to take account of recent issues, events and scholarship, it is a vital resource for courses on the international relations of human rights.

This textbook presents security studies as a branch of international relations theory, providing readers with the critical conceptual tools to develop their expertise. The author evaluates the claims of rival theories - realism, neorealism, liberal institutionalism, classical economic liberalism, and Marxism - to explain why international actors choose or eschew force and coercive threats in order to elicit favorable outcomes in their interdependent exchanges. Also discussed are behaviorism and constructivism, contesting approaches to validate prevailing security paradigms. The author argues that only an interdisciplinary approach to security, drawing on the insights of each perspective, can meet the rigorous requirements of testable theory and the practical needs of actors in an increasingly globalizing world. The book will provide students and scholars of international relations and security studies with a valuable survey of the subject, and includes essay questions and guides to further reading.

Realism and International Relations provides a review of political realism, which for the last half-century has dominated the study of International Relations. Containing chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading and discussion questions for students, this book offers an accessible and lively survey of the subject.

This book, first published in 2000, provides an overview of theories of the state found in International Relations. The author surveys realist, liberal, Marxist, constructivist and neo-Weberian approaches, and offers an introduction to the subject. The book will be of interest to students of sociology and politics, as well as International Relations.