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)

Inevitably enemies by position and by the incompatibility of their ideologies, the United States and the Soviet Union have a common interest not in ruling together over the world, but in not destroying each other. This book reflects on the problems of attaining peace. Part One deals with theory, the concepts and systems of international relations. Part Two investigates the soci...(展开全部)

After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions - the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the Internatio...(展开全部)

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds assoc...(展开全部)

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds assoc...(展开全部)

Realism and constructivism, two key contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of international relations, are commonly taught as mutually exclusive ways of understanding the subject. Realist Constructivism explores the common ground between the two, and demonstrates that, rather than being in simple opposition, they have areas of both tension and overlap. There is indeed...(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)

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)