Henrik Bliddal - Classics of International Relations: Essays in Criticism and Appreciation

Classics of International Relations introduces, contextualizes and assesses 24 of the most important works on international relations of the last 100 years. Providing an indispensable guide for all students of IR theory, from advanced undergraduates to academic specialists, it asks why are these works considered classics? Is their status deserved? Will it endure? It takes as its starting point Norman Angell's best-selling The Great Illusion (1910) and concludes with Daniel Deudney's award-winning Bounding Power (2007). The volume does not ignore established classics such as Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations and Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics, but seeks to expand the IR canon beyond its core realist and liberal texts. It thus considers emerging classics such as Andrew Linklater's critical sociology of moral boundaries, Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations, and Cynthia Enloe's pioneering gender analysis, Bananas, Beaches and Bases. It also innovatively considers certain alternative format classics such as Stanley Kubrick's satire on the nuclear arms race, Dr. Strangelove, and Errol Morris's powerful documentary on war and US foreign policy, The Fog of War. With an international cast of contributors, many of them leading authorities on their subject, Classics of International Relations will become a standard reference for all those wishing to make sense of a rapidly developing and diversifying field.

Classics of International Relations is designed to become a standard reference text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers in the field of IR.

Henrik Bliddal is Director of the Science and Technology Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, Belgium.

Casper Sylvest is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark.

Peter Wilson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Classics of International Relations

Essays in Criticism and Appreciation

Edited by
Henrik Bliddal, Casper Sylvest and Peter Wilson

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Classics of international relations : essays in criticism and appreciation / edited by
Henrik Bliddal, Casper Sylvest and Peter Wilson.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. International relations. I. Bliddal, Henrik.
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HENRIK BLIDDAL, CASPER SYLVEST AND PETER WILSON

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PETER WILSON

PETER WILSON

LUCIAN M. ASHWORTH

NICOLAS GUILHOT

BRIAN C. SCHMIDT

CASPER SYLVEST

BRYAN-PAUL FROST

J. SAMUEL BARKIN

HENRIK BLIDDAL

SHIPING TANG

ANDREW HURRELL

THOMAS C. WALKER

ANDERS WIVEL

WILLIAM SMITH

RICHARD DEVETAK AND JULIETTE GOUT

RANDALL GERMAIN

ALEXANDRA HYDE AND MARSHA HENRY

TOM LUNDBORG AND NICK VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS

ALAN CHONG

BRIAN C. SCHMIDT

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BRENT J. STEELE

HENRIK BLIDDAL, CASPER SYLVEST AND PETERWILSON

Lucian M. Ashworth is Professor and Head of the Political Science Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He writes on the history of international thought, with a particular interest in the interwar period. He is the author of Creating International Studies: Angell, Mitrany and the Liberal Tradition (Ashgate, 1999) and International Relations and the Labour Party: Intellectuals and Policy Making from 19181945 (I. B. Tauris, 2007). He is currently working on a book project for Pearson entitled A History of International Thought.

J. Samuel Barkin is Professor of Global Governance in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His work focuses on international relations theory and international environmental politics. His recent publications include Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Saving Global Fisheries (MIT Press, 2013).

Henrik Bliddal is Director of the Science and Technology Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He holds an MSc in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Henrik is a former editor of the Danish journal Politik and the author of Reforming Military Command Arrangements (Strategic Studies Institute, 2011).

Alan Chong is Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He has published widely on the notion of soft power and the role of ideas in constructing the international relations of Singapore and Asia. His publications have appeared in The Pacific Review, the Review of International Studies, and Alternatives: Global, Local, Political.

Richard Devetak is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is co-editor of The Globalization of Political Violence (Routledge, 2008) and co-author of Theories of International Relations, 5th edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Bryan-Paul Frost is James A. and Kaye L. Crocker Endowed Professor of Political Science and adjunct professor in the Philosophy program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. He is contributor, translator and co-editor (with Daniel J. Mahoney) of Political Reason in the Age of Ideology: Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron (Transaction, 2007). He has also published widely on Alexandre Kojve, US political thought and Greek and Roman political philosophy.

Randall Germain is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Canada. His research examines the political economy of global finance and theoretical developments in IPE. Among his publications are The International Organization of Credit (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and