International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are st...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2006 Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association The difference between war and peace can be a matter of trust. States that trust each other can cooperate and remain at peace. States that mistrust each other enough can wage preventive wars, attacking now in fear that the other side will attack in the future. In this groundbr...(展开全部)

Book Description This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and mod...(展开全部)

All academic disciplines periodically appraise their effectiveness, evaluating the progress of previous scholarship and judging which approaches are useful and which are not. Although no field could survive if it did nothing but appraise its progress, occasional appraisals are important and if done well can help advance the field.This book investigates how international relatio...(展开全部)

巴里·布赞，伦敦政治经济学院荣誉教授(曾任蒙塔古·伯顿讲席教授)，哥本哈根大学、吉林大学、外交学院名誉教授，伦敦政治经济学院“国际事务、外交与国际战略研究中心”(LSE IDEAS)高级研究员，英国科学院院士。 阿米塔·阿查亚，联合国教科文组织跨国挑战与治理中心主席，美利坚大学国际事务学院杰出教授。国际研究协会(ISA)前主席，曾因在国际组织和非西方国际关系学研究方面的贡献获国际研究协会杰出学者奖。 李东琪，吉林大学世界史专业(国际关系史方向)博士，莫斯科国立国际关系学院访问学者，中国社会科学院历史理论研究所助理研究员，译有《全球国际关系学的构建：百年国际关系学的起源和演进》（合译）等。 颜震，吉林大学世界史专业(国际关系史方向)博士，徐州工程学院外国语学院教师，吉林大学国际关系研究所研究员，译有《乌克兰史》《英国学派理论导论》《早期现代世界的国际秩...(展开全部)

查尔斯·贝兹（Charles Beitz），美国艺术与科学院院士，美国普林斯顿大学政治学教授，普林斯顿人类价值研究中心主任；《哲学与公共事务》杂志、《国际伦理学》杂志和《法律、经济学与哲学》杂志编委。其主要研究领域为国际政治理论、民主理论、人权理论和法律理论；主要著作有：《政治理论与国际关系》、《政治平等》、《人权的理念》等。贝兹教授曾荣获古根海姆、洛克菲勒和麦克阿瑟基金以及美国学术团体协会和美国教育委员会研究基金。

In this revised edition of his 1979 classic "Political Theory and International Relations", Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analog...(展开全部)

The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying perspective, which begins with a simple insight: students of international relati...(展开全部)

Of undoubtable relevance today, in a post-9-11 world of growing political tension and unease, this iVery Short Introduction/i covers the topics essential to an understanding of modern international relations. Paul Wilkinson explains the theories and the practice that underlie the subject, and investigates issues ranging from foreign policy, arms control, and terrorism, to the e...(展开全部)