Oxford Handbook of International Relations

Part I Introduction; 1: Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal: Between utopia and reality: the practical discourses of international relations; Part II Imagining the discipline; 2: David A. Lake: The state and international relations; 3: Michael Barnett and Kathryn Sikkink: From international relations to global society; 4: Robert Cox: The point is not just to explain the world but to change it; 5: Phillip Darby: A disabling discipline?; Part III Major theoretical perspectives; 6: Peter Katzenstein and Rudra Sil: Eclectic theorizing in the study and practice of international relations; 7: William C. Wohlforth: Realism; 8: Jack Donnelly: The ethics of realism; 9: Benno Teschke: Marxism; 10: Nicholas Rengger: The ethics of Marxism; 11: Arthur A. Stein: Neoliberal institutionalism; 12: James L. Richardson: The ethics of neoliberal institutionalism; 13: Andrew Moravscik: The new liberalism; 14: Gerry Simpson: The ethics of the new liberalism; 15: Tim Dunne: The English School; 16: Molly Cochran: The ethics of the English School; 17: Ian Hurd: Constructivism; 18: Richard Price: The ethics of constructivism; 19: Richard Shapcott: Critical theory; 20: Robyn Eckersley: The ethics of critical theory; 21: Anthony Burke: Postmodernism; 22: Peter Lawler: The ethics of postmodernism; 23: Sandra Whitworth: Feminism; 24: Jacqui True: The ethics of feminism; Part IV The question of method; 25: Andrew H. Kydd: Methodological individualism and rational choice; 26: Friedrich Kratochwil: Sociological approaches; 27: James Goldgeier and Philip Tetlock: Psychological approaches; 28: Edward D. Mansfield and Jon C. Pevehouse: Quantitative approaches; 29: Andrew Bennett and Colin Elman: Case study methods; 30: Joel Quirk: Historical methods; Part V Bridging the subfield boundaries; 31: John Ravenhill: International political economy; 32: Robert Ayson: Strategic studies; 33: Douglas T. Stuart: Foreign policy decision-making; 34: Terry Nardin: International ethics; 35: Michael Byers:

Duncan Snidal is an Associate Professor in the Harris School, the Department of Political Science, and Chair of the Committee on International Relations. Snidal's research focuses on international relations with an emphasis on international political economy and institutions. He has worked on problems of international cooperation, including how the distribution of capability and interests affects outcomes. He is currently working on the role of international institutions, including law and formal organizations, in promoting cooperation. Snidal is also interested in applying formal techniques to policy analysis. He is Director of the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security (PIPES) and is currently Chair of the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago.

Review from previous edition The Oxford Handbook of International Relations provides a magisterial overview of international theory today. It explains the diversity of the field and analyses the complex links between theory, method and political practice; it highlights the common stake in fundamental ethical questions about 'how should we act?'; and it raises large questions about how far progress in various sub-areas of investigation has advanced the field overall. This compelling work deserves to be a major teaching resource in the years ahead. But it should be more than that, namely a significant influence on the conversation between perspectives in the next phase of the development of the discipline. s Andrew Linklater, Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.