1st Edition

Idealism and Realism in International Relations

By Robert M. A. Crawford Copyright 2000
    210 Pages
    by Routledge

    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    The author argues for a revised conception of international relations that acknowledges the irreconcilability of realist and idealist theories, and concerns itself instead with important substantive issues.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The roots of diversity in political and social theory; Chapter 3 From idealism to realism; Chapter 4 Idealism, realism and national differences; Chapter 5 Idealism, realism and national differences; Chapter 6 A discipline pas de comme les autres?;

    Biography

    Robert M. A. Crawford is Lecturer of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His previous publications include Regime Theory in the Post-Cold War World: Rethinking Neoliberal Approaches to International Relations and International Relations—Still an American Social Science? Towards Diversity in International Thought (co-edited with D. S. L. Jarvis).