4th Edition
International Relations The Key Concepts
Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations. New entries include the following:
- Anthropocene
- Authoritarian populism
- Borders
- Brexit
- Dignity
- Hierarchy
- Intersectionality
- Pandemic
- Postmodern warfare
- Race war
- Resilience
Featuring suggestions for further reading as well as a unique guide to websites on international relations, this accessible guide is an invaluable aid to an understanding of this expanding field, ideal for student and non-specialist alike. It will serve as a vital reference text for undergraduate IR courses.
Preface
List of Key Concepts
Introduction
AFRICAN UNION
Alliance
Anarchy
Anthropocene
Appeasement
Arab League
Arab Spring
Arms control
Arms trade
Authoritarian populism
BALANCE OF POWER
Borders
Bretton Woods
Brexit
Bush Doctrine
CAPITAL CONTROLS
Capitalism
Citizenship
Clash of civilisations
Climate change
Coercion
Cold war
Collective security
Communism
Communitarianism
Concert of powers
Constructivism
Containment
Cosmopolitanism
Crisis
Critical theory
DEBT TRAP
Decolonisation
Democratic peace
Democratisation
Dependency
Deterrence
Development
Diaspora
Digital divide
Dignity
Diplomacy
Disarmament
EMBEDDED LIBERALISM
Emotions
End of history
Enemy combatant
English School
Ethnic cleansing
Ethnicity
Euro
European Union (EU)
Exploitation
Extraterritoriality
FAILED STATE
Feminism
Foreign aid
Foreign direct investment (FDI)
Free trade
Functionalism
GENDER
Genocide
Geopolitics
Global civil society
Global financial crisis
Global governance
Global justice
Global South
Globalisation
Governmentality
Great powers
Group of twenty (G-20)
HEGEMONIC STABILITY THEORY
Hegemony
Hierarchy
Historical sociology
Human rights
Human security
Humanitarian intervention
IDEALISM
Imperialism
Integration
Interdependence
International Criminal Court (ICC)
International criminal tribunals
International law
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International political economy
Intersectionality
International society
Irredentism
Isolationism
JIHAD
Just war
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Legitimacy
Levels of analysis
Liberal internationalism
Loose nukes
MANAGED TRADE
Marxism
Mercantilism
Mercenary
Mercosur
Misperception
Modernisation theory
Multilateralism
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
NATION STATE
National interest
Nationalism
Neoliberalism
Newly industrialising countries (NICs)
Non-governmental organisation (NGO)
Non-tariff barrier (NTB)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Nuclear proliferation
ORDER
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
PANDEMIC
Peace-building
Peacekeeping
Peace of Westphalia
Peace studies
Political risk
Population growth
Postcolonialism
Postmodern warfare
Postmodernism
Power
Practice turn
Pre-emption
Preventive diplomacy
Prisoners’ dilemma
Public goods
QUEER THEORY
RACE WAR
Realism
Reciprocity
Recognition
Refugees
Regime
Regional trade blocs
Regionalism
Relative gains/absolute gains
Resilience
Responsibility to protect (R2P)
Rogue state
SAFE HAVEN
Sanctions
Secession
Security
Security dilemma
Self-determination
Sovereignty
Structural adjustment programme (SAP)
Structural violence
Superpower
Sustainable development
TERRORISM
Theory
Torture
Tragedy of the commons
UNILATERALISM
United Nations (UN)
WAR
War crime
War on terror
Women in development (WID)
World Bank
World-system theory
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Appendix:
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. Among his books are South Sudan’s Fateful Struggle (2023), Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare (2020), Handbook of Critical International Relations (2020), and Decency and Difference (2019).
Alexander D. Barder is Associate Professor of International Relations and Graduate Director at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His most recent book is Global Race War: International Political and Racial Hierarchy (2021).
'This is a freshly updated edition of an already popular book, adding recent ideas like resilience and the Anthropocene to the established IR vocabulary. It manages to be clear and concise while covering each topic in sufficient detail as to offer an excellent guide to the discipline.'
Professor Jonathan Joseph, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK.
