1st Edition

Idealism and Realism in International Relations

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

212 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).