SUB Hamburg Discipline and Diversity THIRD EDITION Edited by Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Detailed Contents Preface Acknowledgements Brief Contents About the Contributors Guided Tour of Learning Features Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre v viii ix xvii xx xxii : Diversity and Disciplinarity in International Relations Theory Steve Smith l All these theories but the bodies keep piling up 4 What do the theories share? 8 Diversity and disciplinarity 9 1 International Relations and Social Science 14 Milja Kurki and Colin Wight 14 The philosophy of social science in IR: a historical overview 16 Science, the fourth debate and beyond 20 Exploring the key implications of meta-theoretical differences in IR theory 26 32 33 33 2 Normative International Relations Theory 36 Toni Erskine 36 Normative IR theory: defining a distinct field of scholarship 38 Normative IR theory: exploring IR's implicit ethical assumptions 46 Case study: duties to 'enemies' and civilian casualties in Iraq 49 54 ' 55
3 Classical Realism Richard Ned Lebow Classical realism on order and stability Classical realism and change Classical realism on the nature of theory Case study: classical realist analysis of Iraq : the tragic vision Important website 4 Structural Realism John J. Mearsheimer Why do states want power? How much power is enough? What causes great power war? Case study: can China rise peacefully? 5 Liberalism Bruce Russett Four big changes in the world The 'epidemiology' of international conflict Analysing the global experience of a century Are democracies peaceful in general? A self-perpetuating system? Case study: the European Union Promoting order in anarchy : power, hegemony, and liberalism
112 112 113 6 Neoliberalism 114 Jennifer Sterling-Folker 114 How did neoliberalism emerge? 115 What are the barriers to international cooperation? 118 How does neoliberalism study international institutions? 120 Case study: the World Trade Organization 126 129 130 131 131 7 The English School 132 Tim Dunne 132 The interpretive mode of inquiry 135 International society i 138 International society: between system and world society 144 Case study: human rights 146 149 150 150 151 8 Marxism 153 Mark Rupert 153 Historical materialism and the meaning of dialectical theory 154 Western Marxism and Gramsci's theory of hegemony 160 Global power and hegemony 162 Case study: from Bush to Obama US global power as twenty-first-century. imperialism? 164 167 168
<iv DETAILED CONTENTS 168 important websites 169 9 Critical Theory 171 Steven C. Roach 171 The Frankfurt School 172 Critical international relations theory 174 Later phase: universal morality and political economy 175 Empirical challenges and institutional norms 177 Case study: the Arab Spring 180 Critical security studies 182 _ 183 184 184 185 10 Constructivism 187 K. M. Fierke 187 The social construction of reality 188 Constructivism and rationalism 189 Constructivism as middle ground 193 Consistent constructivism 196 Case study: the War on Terror 199 201 202 203 203 11 Feminism 205 J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg 205 Gender in IR 206 Typology of IR feminist theories 208 Gender, security, and global politics 212 Case study: UN sanctions on Iraq 215 219 220
12 Poststructuralism David Campbell The interdisciplinary context of poststructuralism The reaction of IR to poststructuralism The critical attitude of poststructuralism Understanding discourse Discourses of world politics Case study: images of humanitarian crises 220 221 223 223 227 229 231 234 236 239 243 244 245 246 13 Postcolonialism Siba N. Grovogui International morality and ethics Orientalism and identities Power and legitimacy in the international order Case study: the Suez Canal Crisis 14 Green Theory Robyn Eckersley The emergence of green theory The transnational turn in green theory The greening of IR theory Case study: the challenge of climate change 247 247 249 252 256 260 262 264 265 266 266 267 270 274 278 281 283 284 285
15 International Relations Theory and Globalization 287 Colin Hay 287 What's at stake in the globalization debate? 288 The semantics of globalization 293 The empirics of globalization: its extent and consequences 297 Case study: from the welfare state to the competition state? 300 303 304 304 305 16 Still a Discipline After All These Debates? 306 Ole Wasver 306 The discipline question 308 What kind of discipline is International Relations? Changes in social structure 312 Changes in intellectual structure? The end of great debatism? 317 Specific theories-what axes of debate? 319 : What are we doing? How are we doing? 323 325 325 Bibliography Glossary Index 329 351 359