The Oxford handbook of international relations
International relations
Edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- xiii, 772 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
- The Oxford handbooks of political science .
Originally published: 2008.
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of international relations. Arguably the most impressive collection of international relations scholars ever brought together within one volume; the Handbook debates the nature of the area itself, critically engages with the major theories, surveys a wide spectrum of methods, addresses the relationship between scholarship and policy making, and examines the field's relation with cognate disciplines. The Handbook takes as its central themes the interaction between empirical and normative enquiry that permeates all theorising in the area and how contending approaches have shaped one another. In doing so, the Handbook provides an authoritative and critical introduction to the subject and establishes a sense of the field as a dynamic realm of argument and inquiry. The Oxford Handbook of International Relations will be essential reading for all of those interested in the advanced study of global politics and international affairs.