Editor(s): Dyvik, Synne L.; Selby, Jan; Wilkinson, Rorden. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446. . 2017. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: What's the Point of International Relations?
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1138707317
ISBN 13: 9781138707313
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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What’s the Point of International Relations casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR’s leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the discipline’s origins, history, and composition. It sees IR as a discipline that has much to learn from others, which has not yet lived up to its ambitions or potential, and where much work remains to be done. At the same time, it finds much that is worth celebrating in the discipline’s growing pluralism and views IR as a deeply political, critical, and normative pursuit.

The volume is divided into five parts:

• What is the point of IR?

• The origins of a discipline

• Policing the boundaries

• Engaging the world

• Imagining the future

Although each chapter alludes to and/or discusses central aspects of all of these components, each part is designed to capture the central thrust of the concerns of the contributors. Moving beyond western debate, orthodox perspectives, and uncritical histories this volume is essential reading for all scholars and advanced level students concerned with the history, development, and future of international relations.

About the Author

Synne L. Dyvik is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK.

Jan Selby is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK.

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK.

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