ABSTRACT
Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations. New entries include the following:
- Anthropocene
- Authoritarian populism
- Borders
- Brexit
- Dignity
- Hierarchy
- Intersectionality
- Pandemic
- Postmodern warfare
- Race war
- Resilience
Featuring suggestions for further reading as well as a unique guide to websites on international relations, this accessible guide is an invaluable aid to an understanding of this expanding field, ideal for student and non-specialist alike. It will serve as a vital reference text for undergraduate IR courses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |3 pages
African Union
entry |3 pages
Alliance
entry |2 pages
Anarchy
entry |4 pages
Anthropocene
entry |3 pages
Appeasement
entry |3 pages
Arab League
entry |3 pages
Arab Spring
entry |4 pages
Arms Control
entry |4 pages
Arms Trade
entry |3 pages
Authoritarian Populism
entry |4 pages
Balance of Power
entry |4 pages
Borders
entry |3 pages
Bretton Woods
entry |3 pages
Brexit
entry |3 pages
Bush Doctrine
entry |3 pages
Capital Controls
entry |5 pages
Capitalism
entry |3 pages
Citizenship
entry |4 pages
Clash of Civilisations
entry |4 pages
Climate Change
entry |4 pages
Coercion
entry |4 pages
Cold War
entry |3 pages
Collective Security
entry |3 pages
Communism
entry |3 pages
Communitarianism
entry |3 pages
Concert of Powers
entry |3 pages
Constructivism
entry |2 pages
Containment
entry |2 pages
Cosmopolitanism
entry |4 pages
Crisis
entry |3 pages
Critical Theory
entry |3 pages
Debt Trap
entry |4 pages
Decolonisation
entry |3 pages
Democratic Peace
entry |4 pages
Democratisation
entry |3 pages
Dependency
entry |4 pages
Deterrence
entry |3 pages
Development
entry |2 pages
Diaspora
entry |3 pages
Digital Divide
entry |4 pages
Dignity
entry |3 pages
Diplomacy
entry |3 pages
Disarmament
entry |4 pages
Embedded Liberalism
entry |3 pages
Emotions
entry |3 pages
End of History
entry |3 pages
Enemy Combatant
entry |3 pages
English School
entry |3 pages
Ethnic Cleansing
entry |4 pages
Ethnicity
entry |3 pages
Euro
entry |4 pages
European Union (EU)
entry |3 pages
Exploitation
entry |2 pages
Extraterritoriality
entry |3 pages
Failed State
entry |3 pages
Feminism
entry |4 pages
Foreign Aid
entry |3 pages
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
entry |4 pages
Free Trade
entry |4 pages
Functionalism
entry |2 pages
Gender
entry |3 pages
Genocide
entry |3 pages
Geopolitics
entry |3 pages
Global Civil Society
entry |2 pages
Global Financial Crisis
entry |3 pages
Global Governance
entry |3 pages
Global Justice
entry |4 pages
Global South
entry |4 pages
Globalisation
entry |3 pages
Governmentality
entry |3 pages
Great Powers
entry |3 pages
Group of Twenty (G-20)
entry |3 pages
Hegemonic Stability Theory
entry |3 pages
Hegemony
entry |3 pages
Hierarchy
entry |3 pages
Historical Sociology
entry |5 pages
Human Rights
entry |3 pages
Human Security
entry |5 pages
Humanitarian Intervention
entry |3 pages
Idealism
entry |4 pages
Imperialism
entry |3 pages
Integration
entry |3 pages
Interdependence
entry |5 pages
International Criminal Court (ICC)
entry |3 pages
International Criminal Tribunals
entry |4 pages
International Law
entry |4 pages
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
entry |3 pages
International Political Economy
entry |3 pages
Intersectionality
entry |3 pages
International Society
entry |3 pages
Irredentism
entry |3 pages
Isolationism
entry |3 pages
Jihad
entry |5 pages
Just War
entry |4 pages
League of Nations
entry |3 pages
Legitimacy
entry |3 pages
Levels of Analysis
entry |3 pages
Liberal Internationalism
entry |2 pages
Loose Nukes
entry |4 pages
Managed Trade
entry |3 pages
Marxism
entry |3 pages
Mercantilism
entry |5 pages
Mercenary
entry |2 pages
Mercosur
entry |3 pages
Misperception
entry |3 pages
Modernisation Theory
entry |3 pages
Multilateralism
entry |3 pages
Multinational Corporation (MNC)
entry |3 pages
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
entry |5 pages
Nation State
entry |3 pages
National Interest
entry |6 pages
Nationalism
entry |3 pages
Neoliberalism
entry |3 pages
Newly Industrialising Countries (NICS)
entry |4 pages
Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)
entry |3 pages
Non-Tariff Barrier (NTB)
entry |3 pages
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
entry |4 pages
Nuclear Proliferation
entry |2 pages
Order
entry |3 pages
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
entry |3 pages
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
entry |4 pages
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
entry |4 pages
Pandemic
entry |4 pages
Peace-Building
entry |3 pages
Peacekeeping
entry |2 pages
Peace of Westphalia
entry |3 pages
Peace Studies
entry |4 pages
Political Risk
entry |4 pages
Population Growth
entry |3 pages
Postcolonialism
entry |2 pages
Postmodern Warfare
entry |3 pages
Postmodernism
entry |4 pages
Power
entry |2 pages
Practice Turn
entry |3 pages
Pre-Emption
entry |3 pages
Preventive Diplomacy
entry |3 pages
Prisoners' Dilemma
entry |3 pages
Public Goods
entry |3 pages
Queer Theory
entry |3 pages
Race War
entry |4 pages
Realism
entry |2 pages
Reciprocity
entry |3 pages
Recognition
entry |4 pages
Refugees
entry |3 pages
Regime
entry |4 pages
Regional Trade Blocs
entry |3 pages
Regionalism
entry |3 pages
Relative Gains/Absolute Gains
entry |4 pages
Resilience
entry |3 pages
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
entry |3 pages
Rogue State
entry |4 pages
Safe Haven
entry |4 pages
Sanctions
entry |3 pages
Secession
entry |3 pages
Security
entry |3 pages
Security Dilemma
entry |3 pages
Self-Determination
entry |4 pages
Sovereignty
entry |3 pages
Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)
entry |2 pages
Structural Violence
entry |2 pages
Superpower
entry |3 pages
Sustainable Development
entry |3 pages
Terrorism
entry |2 pages
Theory
entry |4 pages
Torture
entry |3 pages
Tragedy of the Commons
entry |3 pages
Unilateralism
entry |6 pages
United Nations (UN)
entry |4 pages
War
entry |2 pages
War Crime
entry |3 pages
War on Terror
entry |2 pages
Women in Development (WID)
entry |3 pages
World Bank
entry |4 pages
World-System Theory
entry |4 pages
World Trade Organization (WTO)
