New Realism and its Critique

Author: Robert Keohane (USA)
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book compiles the main documents from the "Third Debate" in the history of international relations theory, focusing on several core issues in contemporary international political theory. It showcases the academic essence of theoretical schools such as neorealism, neoliberalism, social constructivism, postmodernism, and Western Marxism. The content spans the fields of political philosophy and social philosophy, covering the core ideas of various theoretical schools in contemporary international political science. It is highly theoretical, academically rigorous, and a must-read classic for students of Western international political studies. Neorealism and Its Critics is one of the most influential works in the history of critical international relations theory, edited by Robert O. Keohane, a master of neoliberal international political theory and a professor at Duke University. It consists of 11 chapters. The book collects the most important texts from renowned theorists such as Kenneth Waltz, Robert Keohane, John Ruggie, Richard Ashley, Robert Cox, and Robert Gilpin during the "Third Debate" in the history of international relations theory. It showcases the academic essence of theoretical schools such as neorealism, neoliberalism, social constructivism, postmodernism, and Western Marxism, and focuses on several core issues in contemporary international political theory: How to build the discipline of international political theory? How to construct a scientifically effective model of international relations theory? What are the nature of power, interests, and the international system? What is the relationship between social forces and state action? And more.