The Oxford handbook of international relations / edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal.

PART I INTRODUCTION; 1. Between utopia and reality: the practical discourses of international relations; PART 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?; PART 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; PART 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; PART V BRIDGING THE SUBFIELD BOUNDARIES; 31. International political economy; 32. Strategic studies; 33. Foreign policy decision-making; 34. International ethics; 35. International law; PART 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; PART VII THE QUESTION OF DIVERSITY; 38. International relations from below; 39. International relations theory from a former hegemon; PART 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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.