Concepts of international relations, for students and other smarties / Iver B. Neumann.
By: Neumann, Iver B [author.].
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2019Description: 182 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780472074075 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): International relations -- Textbooks | International relations -- Philosophy | International relations -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- State -- Nation-state -- Empire -- International, transnational, and subnational organizations -- Foreign policy -- The states system -- Nationalism, postcolonialism, and Euro-centrism -- Globalization and global governance -- Security -- International society -- Great powers -- Diplomacy -- War and peace -- Balance of power -- International law and human rights -- Power and sovereignty -- Intervention : military, economic, humanitarian -- Gender, class, ethnicity.
"Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties is not a stereotypical textbook, but an instructive, entertaining and motivating introduction to the field of International Relations (IR). Rather than relying on figures or tables, Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties piques the reader's interest with a pithy narrative that presents apposite nutshell examples, stresses historical breaks and throws in the odd pun to get the big picture across. While there are other brief, introductory IR titles, Iver Neumann's book remains fully within the academic genre, and is comparatively long on history. It is based on his repeatedly offered introductory lectures to first-year IR students and students from other disciplines looking for an overview course at the LSE. With a relaxed lecturing style, this textbook introduces the long-term historical emergence of concepts such as state (European), state (global), empire, non-state agents, foreign policy, state system, nationalism, globalization, security, international society, great powers, diplomacy, war and peace, balance of power, international law, power and sovereignty, intervention, gender and class. It demonstrates how such phenomena have been understood in very different ways. First, the reader is alerted to how the use of concepts is an integrated part of politics. Secondly, the reader is sensitized to how social change has worked in the past, and is working now. Thirdly, the book demonstrates how historical and social context matters in ongoing international relations"--