The eagerly-awaited new edition of the ground-breaking Handbook of International Relations , edited by three of the leading scholars in the field.

Informationen zum Autor Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse is director of the Center for Transnational Relations! Foreign and Se-curity Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Born in 1955! he received his PhD. from the University of Frankfurt in 1987. From 1997-2001! he was Joint Chair of International Relations at the European University Institute's Ro-bert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Political Sci-ences in Florence! Italy. His previous teaching and research appointments include the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt! the University of Konstanz! Germany! as well as Cornell and Yale Universities! and the University of Wyoming. He has also held visiting professorships at Stanford and Harvard Universities. Thomas Risse is co-ordinator of the Research Center 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood"! funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is founding director of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies! and has been chair of the Executive Committee of the Joint Master program in International Relations of the Freie Universitat Berlin! the Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin! and the University of Potsdam. He has been asso-ciate editor of the journal International Organization. In 2003! he received the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation. Thomas Risse is the author of Cooperation among Democracies. The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton University Press! 1995) and! among others! co-editor of The End of the West. Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (with Jeffrey Anderson and G. John Ikenberry! Cornell University Press! 2008)! Regieren ohne Staat? Governance in Raumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (with Ursula Lehmkuhl! Nomos! 2007)! Handbook of International Relations (with Walter Carlsnaes and Beth Simmons! Sage! 2002)! Transforming Europe. Europeanization and Domestic Change (with Maria Green Cowles and James Caporaso! Cornell University Press! 2001)! and The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change (with Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink! Cambridge University Press! 1999). Beth Simmons is a Professor of Government at Harvard University! Cambridge Massachusetts. Previous positions include Assistant Professor at Duke University (Durham! North Carolina) and Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include international law! international human rights! and international political economy. She is author of Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years! 1924-1939 (1995)! and is currently working on a book length manuscript on compliance with international human rights obligations. She is a co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of International Relations (2002). Klappentext The original Handbook of International Relations was the first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the field of international relations. In this eagerly-awaited new edition, the Editors have once again drawn together a team of the world's leading scholars of international relations to provide a state-of-the-art review and indispensable guide to the field, ensuring its position as the pre-eminent volume of its kind. The Second Edition has been expanded to 33 chapters and fully revised, with new chapters on the following contemporary topics: - Normative Theory in IR - Critical Theories and Poststructuralism - Efforts at Theoretical Synthesis in IR: Possibilities and Limits - International Law and International Relations - Transnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies - Comparative Regionalism - Nationalism and Ethnicity - Geopolitics in the 21st Century - Terrorism and International Relations - Religion and International Politics - International Migration A truly international un...

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse is director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Se-curity Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Born in 1955, he received his PhD. from the University of Frankfurt in 1987. From 1997-2001, he was Joint Chair of International Relations at the European University Institutes Ro-bert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Political Sci-ences in Florence, Italy. His previous teaching and research appointments include the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the University of Konstanz, Germany, as well as Cornell and Yale Universities, and the University of Wyoming. He has also held visiting professorships at Stanford and Harvard Universities. Thomas Risse is co-ordinator of the Research Center 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is founding director of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, and has been chair of the Executive Committee of the Joint Master program in International Relations of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. He has been asso-ciate editor of the journal International Organization. In 2003, he received the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation. Thomas Risse is the author of Cooperation among Democracies. The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton University Press, 1995) and, among others, co-editor of The End of the West. Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (with Jeffrey Anderson and G. John Ikenberry, Cornell University Press, 2008), Regieren ohne Staat? Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (with Ursula Lehmkuhl, Nomos, 2007), Handbook of International Relations (with Walter Carlsnaes and Beth Simmons, Sage, 2002), Transforming Europe. Europeanization and Domestic Change (with Maria Green Cowles and James Caporaso, Cornell University Press, 2001), and The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change (with Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, Cambridge University Press, 1999). Beth Simmons is a Professor of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Previous positions include Assistant Professor at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include international law, international human rights, and international political economy. She is author of Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939 (1995), and is currently working on a book length manuscript on compliance with international human rights obligations. She is a co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of International Relations (2002).

Inhalt
PART ONE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
On the History and Historiography of International Relations - Brian C. Schmidt
Philosophy of Social Science and International Relations - Colin Wight
Ethics and Norms in International Relations - Andrew Hurrell & Terry Macdonald
Rational Choice and International Relations - Duncan Snidal
Constructivism in International Relations: Sources, Contributions and Debates - Emanuel Adler
Critical Theory, Post-Structuralism and Post-Colonialism - Maja Zehfuss
Feminist Perspectives on International Relations - Laura Sjoberg & J. Ann Tickner
Psychological Explanations of International Decision-Making and Collective Behavior - Janice Gross Stein
Theoretical Pluralism in IR: Possibilities and Limits - Jeffrey T. Checkel
PART TWO: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
State, Sovereignty and Territory - Thomas J. Biersteker
Power and International Relations - David A. Baldwin
Foreign Policy - Walter Carlsnaes
International Organizations and Institutions - Lisa L. Martin & Beth A. Simmons
Internati…