1. Why Study IR?

Theory And Practice ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Global Issues ◽

Online Resource ◽

The World ◽

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theories, encompassing both classical and contemporary approaches and debates. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organise and shape our view of the world. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, and foreign policy. A chapter is dedicated to key global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which includes: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.

1. Why Study IR?

Introduction to International Relations ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198803577.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 3-32

Author(s):

Robert Jackson ◽

Georg Sørensen ◽

Jørgen Møller

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Social Constructivism ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Global Issues ◽

Online Resource ◽

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theories, encompassing both classical and contemporary approaches and debates. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organise and shape our view of the world. It also shows how a historical perspective can often refine theories and provide a frame of reference for contemporary problems of international relations. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, and foreign policy. Each chapter ends by discussing how different theories have attempted to integrate or combine international and domestic factors in their explanatory frameworks. The final chapter is dedicated to key global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which includes: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.

Introduction to International Relations

10.1093/hepl/9780198707554.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert Jackson ◽

Georg Sørensen

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

Social Constructivism ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Global Issues ◽

Online Resource ◽

The World ◽

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theories, encompassing both classical and contemporary approaches and debates. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organise and shape our view of the world. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, and foreign policy. A chapter is dedicated to key global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which includes: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.

Introduction to International Relations

10.1093/hepl/9780198803577.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert Jackson ◽

Georg Sørensen ◽

Jørgen Møller

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Social Constructivism ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Global Issues ◽

The World ◽

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theories, encompassing both classical and contemporary approaches and debates. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organize and shape our view of the world. It also shows how a historical perspective can often refine theories and provide a frame of reference for contemporary problems of international relations. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, and foreign policy. Each chapter ends by discussing how different theories have attempted to integrate or combine international and domestic factors in their explanatory frameworks. The final chapter is dedicated to key global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by online resources, which include: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.

Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches

10.1093/hepl/9780198862208.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Georg Sørensen ◽

Jørgen Møller ◽

Robert Jackson

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Social Constructivism ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

World Order ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Global Issues ◽

The World ◽

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories and approaches, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organize and shape our view of the world. It also shows how a historical perspective can often refine theories and provide a frame of reference for contemporary problems of international relations. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, major issues in IPE and IR, foreign policy, and world order. Each chapter ends by discussing how different theories have attempted to integrate or combine international and domfactors in their explanatory frameworks. The final part of the book is dedicated to major global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by online resources, which include: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.

A dinâmica da integração internacional das economias e o Brasil: um exercício teórico

Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas Avançadas do Terceiro Setor ◽

10.31501/repats.v5i1.9805 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 635

Author(s):

Eiiti Sato

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Economic Development ◽

International Relations ◽

World Economy ◽

Market Forces ◽

State Institutions ◽

Domestic Markets ◽

The World ◽

Since the exchange of goods, services, and capital became a worldwide system some nations have succeeded becoming wealthy and prosperous while many others have failed remaining in poverty. Over the last three decades the dynamism of the increasing integrated world economy became an essential part of the process of economic growth, and as a consequence growth has been meager in countries like Brazil whose authorities have remained systematically hesitant to integrate the domestic markets into the world economy, staying apart from the main flows of trade and capital. The article discusses also why economic development studies has moved from the field of Economy to the field of International Relations forming the area of International Political Economy studies which is mainly driven to understand the trends and changes in the relationship between the state institutions and the market forces in the national and international levels. The essay concludes that to any country the process of integrating into the world economy means exploring and improving national potentialities rather than abandoning national identity and interests.

12. The Big Question: World Order or World Chaos?

10.1093/hepl/9780198862208.003.0012 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 350-376

Author(s):

Georg Sørensen ◽

Jørgen Møller ◽

Robert Jackson

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

International Institutions ◽

World Order ◽

Initial Section ◽

Fragile States ◽

The World ◽

New Challenges ◽

Established Democracies ◽

Better Than

This final chapter addresses a really big question: are international relations heading towards order or chaos? To answer this question, it interrogates the different IR theories presented in previous chapters. An initial section provides a conceptual map, based on a review of different understandings of the concept of world order. The chapter proceeds by discussing the effect of the rise of authoritarian power such as China, new challenges in established democracies, fragile states in the Global South, and the governance provided by international institutions. The chapter ends by arguing that the glass is at the same time half-full and half-empty: the world faces new and formidable challenges and we are very far from meeting current aspirations for world order; at the same time, global relations are much more ordered than they used to be just a few generations ago—and things are far better than many pessimists claim.

GLOBALIZATION AND CONTEMPORARY GEOPOLITICAL VALUES

Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Philosophy ◽

10.17721/2523-4064.2018/3-1/12 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 5-8

Author(s):

I. Boiko

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

New World ◽

World Order ◽

New World Order ◽

The World ◽

The Relationship ◽

World Development

Author investigates the essential characteristics, manifestations of globalization as a determinative law of world development and the planetary tendency for the integration of mankind. The relationship between globalization and geopolitical values and processes is clarified. It is noted that globalization reflects the geopolitical heterogeneity of the world, which gives a certain direction the international relations development. The unity of geopolitical processes with the approval of the new world order is analyzed.

LEADERSHIP AND HEGEMONY IN GEOSTRATEGY OF INFORMAL NEO-EMPIRES

ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ◽

10.17721/apmv.2017.130.1.39-49 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 39-49

Author(s):

A. Goltsov

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Soft Power ◽

World Order ◽

Controversial Issues ◽

The World ◽

The Usa ◽

Common Goals ◽

Political Economic ◽

The article analyzes the controversial issues of the relationship between leadership and hegemony in international relations, especially in the context of geostrategy of the informal neo-empires. Ideally, leadership of the certain actor means that other actors voluntarily accept its proposed values, norms and rules, recognize its authority to implement a policy for the realization of common goals. Hegemony is the dominance of a particular actor (hegemon) over other actors, establishing his controls over them, imposing its political, economic and cultural values. Hegemony in international relations is carried out usually covertly and often presented as a leadership. Leadership and hegemony are possible at various levels of the geopolitical organization in the world. We treat leadership and hegemony as mechanisms of implementation of a geostrategy of powerful actors of international relations, particularly of informal neo-empires. Each of the contemporary informal neo-empires develops and implements geostrategy, aimed at ensuring its hegemony, usually covert, within a certain geospace and realizes it as a means of a both “hard” and “soft” power. The USA, which is the main “center” of the Western macro-empire, trys to maintain its world leadership, and at the same time secure a covert hegemony over the strategically important regions of the world. The EU is a neo-imperial alliance and has geostrategy of “soft” hegemony. Russia opposes the hegemony of the West and advocates the formation of a multipolar world order with the “balance of power”. The RF carries in the international arena neo-imperial geostrategy in the international arena directed to increase its role in the world and ensure its hegemony in the post-Soviet space.

LEADERSHIP AND HEGEMONY IN GEOSTRATEGY OF INFORMAL NEO-EMPIRES

ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ◽

10.17721/apmv.2017.130.0.39-49 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 39-49

Author(s):

A. Goltsov

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Soft Power ◽

World Order ◽

Controversial Issues ◽

The World ◽

The Usa ◽

Common Goals ◽

Political Economic ◽

The article analyzes the controversial issues of the relationship between leadership and hegemony in international relations, especially in the context of geostrategy of the informal neo-empires. Ideally, leadership of the certain actor means that other actors voluntarily accept its proposed values, norms and rules, recognize its authority to implement a policy for the realization of common goals. Hegemony is the dominance of a particular actor (hegemon) over other actors, establishing his controls over them, imposing its political, economic and cultural values. Hegemony in international relations is carried out usually covertly and often presented as a leadership. Leadership and hegemony are possible at various levels of the geopolitical organization in the world. We treat leadership and hegemony as mechanisms of implementation of a geostrategy of powerful actors of international relations, particularly of informal neo-empires. Each of the contemporary informal neo-empires develops and implements geostrategy, aimed at ensuring its hegemony, usually covert, within a certain geospace and realizes it as a means of a both “hard” and “soft” power. The USA, which is the main “center” of the Western macro-empire, trys to maintain its world leadership, and at the same time secure a covert hegemony over the strategically important regions of the world. The EU is a neo-imperial alliance and has geostrategy of “soft” hegemony. Russia opposes the hegemony of the West and advocates the formation of a multipolar world order with the “balance of power”. The RF carries in the international arena neo-imperial geostrategy in the international arena directed to increase its role in the world and ensure its hegemony in the post-Soviet space.