A history of International Relations theory: Second edition - Softcover

Knutsen, Torbjorn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071904930X ISBN 13: 9780719049309

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Torbjørn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace, wealth and power. The book counters the view that international relations has no theoretical tradition and shows that scholars, soldiers and statesmen have been speculating about the subject for the last 700 years.

Beginning with the roots of the state and the concept of sovereignty in the Middle Ages, the author draws upon the insights of outstanding political thinkers – from Machiavelli and Hobbes to Hegel, Rousseau, and Marx and contemporary thinkers such as Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Morgenthau and Walt – who profoundly influenced the emergence of a discrete discipline of international relations in the twentieth century. Fully revised and updated, the final section embraces more recent approaches to the study of international relations, most notably postmodernism and ecologism.

About this title

About the Author:

Torbjørn L. Knutsen is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of Trondheim

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 071904930X
• ISBN 13: 9780719049309
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368