Building Your IR Theory Toolbox

Eric K. Leonard is Henkel Family Chair in International Affairs at Shenandoah University.

Building Your IR Theory Toolbox excels at its primary goal—it provides students with a highly accessible, entertaining introduction to the field. The book’s use of informal language eases students into sophisticated theoretical perspectives, and its case studies ground those perspectives in real world examples.

• Chapter 1, Introduction: Helping You Understand the World, , Eric K. Leonard, Chapter 2, Realism and Neorealism: Power-Based Theory, , Mark Sachleben, Chapter 3, Liberalism: Explaining the Presence of Cooperation, , Eric K. Leonard, Chapter 4, Marxism: Why Social Class Matters, , Eric K. Leonard, Chapter 5, Social Constructivism: The Power of Ideas and Norms, , Alice D. Ba and Matthew J. Hoffmann, Chapter 6, Feminism: Seeing Gender in Global Politics, , Laura Sjoberg, Chapter 7, Postmodernism: Rethinking the Study of International Relations, , Rosemary E. Shinko, Chapter 8, Wrap-Up: What Should We Make of IR Theory?, , Eric K. Leonard,