Abstract: Between Utopia and Reality: The Practical Discourses of International Relations – The State and International Relations – From International Relations to Global Society – The Point Is Not Just to Explain the World but to Change It – A Disabling Discipline? – Eclectic Theorizing in the Study and Practice of International Relations – Realism – The Ethics of Realism – Marxism – The Ethics of Marxism – Neoliberal Institutionalism – The Ethics of Neoliberal Institutionalism – The New Liberalism – The Ethics of the New Liberalism – The English School – The Ethics of the English School – Constructivism – The Ethics of Constructivism – Critical Theory – The Ethics of Critical Theory – Postmodernism – The Ethics of Postmodernism – Feminism – The Ethics Of Feminism – Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice – Sociological Approaches – Psychological Approaches – Quantitative Approaches – Case Study Methods – Historical Methods – International Political Economy – Strategic Studies – Foreign-Policy Decision-Making – International Ethics – International Law – Scholarship and Policy-Making: Who Speaks Truth to Whom? – International Relations: The Relevance of Theory to Practice – International Relations from Below – International Relations Theory from a Former Hegemon – The Concept of Power and the (Un)discipline of International Relations – Locating Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Agency in International Relations – Big Questions in the Study of World Politics – The Failure of Static and the Need for Dynamic Approaches to International Relations – Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations

Keywords: constructivism, critical theory, feminism, international law, international political economy, international relations, law, liberalism, political economy, politics, power, rational choice, society, state