International Relations - Oxford Bibliographies
Academic Theories of International Relations Since 1945
Nick Rengger
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Academic Theories of International Relations Since 1945 Introduction This entry discusses the dominant academic theories of international relat...
Alliances
Christopher Seely
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Alliances Introduction Rulers and national leaders have used political alliances for many different reasons. Military alliances may serve as a de...
Arab-Israeli Wars, 1967-1973, The
Uri Bar-Joseph
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1967–1973 Introduction The seven-year period between May 1967, when the crisis that led to the Six Day War erupted, and...
Arab-Israeli Wars, The
Avi Kober
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
The Arab-Israeli Wars Introduction In the post–World War II era, during which some 80 percent of the conflicts were of a low-intensity nature ...
Arms Control
William Keylor
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Arms Control Introduction In the history of warfare, periodic and usually unsuccessful efforts have been made to establish rules of war that would p...
Arms Races
David Atkinson
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Arms Races Introduction Arms races are an abiding feature of international relations. Despite the subject’s apparent straightforwardness, however...
Battle
Cathal Nolan
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Battle Introduction Much literature on war details battles and campaigns. Quality varies from compilations of précis to full-length books on “dec...
Civil Society in the European Union
Debora Spini
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Civil Society in the European Union Introduction The European Union (EU) is the most important if not the only example of a postnational polit...
Cold War, The
David Atkinson
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
The Cold War Introduction The term “Cold War” refers to the period of Soviet-American antagonism that dominated the international system from app...
Colonialism
Christopher LaMonica
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Colonialism Introduction The term colonialism refers to a process of domination of one group (the colonizing metropole or core) over another (a c...
Conflict Management
Benita Sumita
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Conflict Management Introduction Any attempt to define conflict management is not an easy feat. It is a dynamic concept with blurry boundaries. I...
Constructivism
Jonathan Cristol
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Constructivism Introduction Constructivist theory emerged in the mid-1990s as a serious challenge to the dominant realist and liberal theoretical...
Counterinsurgency
Ivan Arreguín-Toft
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Counterinsurgency Introduction As suggested by its name, “counterinsurgency” is defined as a set of strategies and practices intended to halt i...
Critical Theory of International Relations
Steven C. Roach
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Critical Theory of International Relations Introduction Max Horkheimer, one of the founders of the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research esta...
Demobilization, Post World War I
Adam R. Seipp
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Post–World War I Demobilization Introduction The end of war is not an event, but a process. Historians know a great deal about how societies m...
Democracy in World Politics
Andrea Ribeiro-Hoffmann
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Democracy in World Politics Introduction The relation between democracy and world politics is manifold. At the conceptual level, a number of sc...
Deterrence Theory
Frank C. Zagare
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Deterrence Theory Introduction Deterrence theory refers broadly to a body of academic work that came to dominate the security studies litera...
Diplomacy
Christopher Seely
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Diplomacy Introduction States use diplomacy to resolve disputes, form alliances, negotiate treaties, strengthen economic relations, promote cultu...
Diplomacy, History of
David Atkinson
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
History of Diplomacy Introduction Diplomacy encompasses the myriad processes of formal and informal communication between and among states. While...
Economics, International
Andrea Fracasso
Subject: International Relations »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
International Economics Introduction The closed economy framework—where people, firms, financial intermediaries, and public institutions inter...
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