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The Oxford Handbook of International Relations
Reus-Smit, Christian, Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Snidal, Duncan, Associate Professor in the Harris School, Department of Political Science, and the College, University of Chicago
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921932-2
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




2 The State and International Relations
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199219322.003.0002

David A. Lake
Abstract: Why Study the State? – The Limits of State-centric Theory – Frontiers of State-centric Theory in International Relations – Conclusion

Keywords: international relations, state,

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David A. Lake is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.
 
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Full Book Contents
I Introduction
1 Between Utopia and Reality: The Practical Discourses of International Relations*
II Imagining the Discipline
2 The State and International Relations
3 From International Relations to Global Society
4 The Point is Not Just to Explain the World but to Change It
5 A Disabling Discipline*?
III Major Theoretical Perspectives
6 Eclectic Theorizing in the Study and Practice of International Relations
7 Realism
8 The Ethics of Realism
9 Marxism
10 The Ethics of Marxism*
11 Neoliberal Institutionalism
12 The Ethics of Neoliberal Institutionalism*
13 The New Liberalism*
14 The Ethics of the New Liberalism
15 The English School*
16 The Ethics of the English School
17 Constructivism*
18 The Ethics of Constructivism
19 Critical Theory
20 The Ethics of Critical Theory
21 Postmodernism
22 The Ethics of Postmodernism
23 Feminism
24 The Ethics Of Feminism*
IV The Question of Method
25 Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice
26 Sociological Approaches
27 Psychological Approaches
28 Quantitative Approaches
29 Case Study Methods
30 Historical Methods
V Bridging The Subfield Boundaries
31 International Political Economy*
32 Strategic Studies
33 Foreign-Policy Decision-Making
34 International Ethics
35 International Law
VI The Scholar And The Policy-Maker
36 Scholarship and Policy-Making: Who Speaks Truth to Whom?
37 International Relations: The Relevance of Theory to Practice*
VII The Question of Diversity
38 International Relations from Below*
39 International Relations Theory from a Former Hegemon*
VIII Old And New
40 The Concept of Power and the (Un)discipline of International Relations
41 Locating Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Agency in International Relations*
42 Big Questions in the Study of World Politics
43 The Failure of Static and the Need for Dynamic Approaches to International Relations*
44 Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations
Index
 
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