Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics, and sociology of literature. His recent publications include Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses (2010); India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Ed.) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013) and Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang) (2023).

• Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Positivist Liberal-Pluralist Theories 1 Introduction 2 Decision-making Theory: From Snyder to Allison and After 3 Integration Theory: The Four Schools and Beyond 4 Theories of Regionalism: Early, Old and New 5 Theories of Interdependence 6 Regime Theory Part II—Political-Economic and Radical Theories 7 Marxism and Its Variants in International Relations Theory 8 Dependency Theory 9 World Systems Theory 10 International Political Economy. Index.

Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics, and sociology of literature. His recent publications include Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses (2010); India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Ed.) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013) and Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang) (2023).

• Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Positivist Liberal-Pluralist Theories 1 Introduction 2 Decision-making Theory: From Snyder to Allison and After 3 Integration Theory: The Four Schools and Beyond 4 Theories of Regionalism: Early, Old and New 5 Theories of Interdependence 6 Regime Theory Part II—Political-Economic and Radical Theories 7 Marxism and Its Variants in International Relations Theory 8 Dependency Theory 9 World Systems Theory 10 International Political Economy. Index.

Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics, and sociology of literature. His recent publications include Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses (2010); India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Ed.) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013) and Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang) (2023).

• Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Positivist Liberal-Pluralist Theories 1 Introduction 2 Decision-making Theory: From Snyder to Allison and After 3 Integration Theory: The Four Schools and Beyond 4 Theories of Regionalism: Early, Old and New 5 Theories of Interdependence 6 Regime Theory Part II—Political-Economic and Radical Theories 7 Marxism and Its Variants in International Relations Theory 8 Dependency Theory 9 World Systems Theory 10 International Political Economy. Index.