Howard LeRoy Malchow is Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History, Tufts University, USA.

I use the current edition in my International Relations theory course and highly recommend it to my political science students because of its conversation between history and political science. This book works well in a variety of political science and history courses.

• Introduction: History and the Discipline(s) of International RelationsI. The History of a Discipline: Origins, Theory, and Tools1. From the First World War to the Early Cold War2. After Morgenthau: Scientific Realism and Its Critics3. IR, the Other Social Sciences, and the StateII. IR and International History4. The Ancient World: Thucydides and the Search for Origins5. Toward the Machiavellian Moment: IR's Middle Ages6. The Sovereign State and the “Westphalian System” in Early- Modern Europe7. Nation, State, and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century8. The Failure of the New (and Old) Diplomacy and the End of European Hegemony9. Cold War and Post-Cold WarIII. Contemporary IR and the Uses of History10. Civilizations, the Myth of Sovereignty, and the Democratic Peace: The End of IR (As We Know It)?Afterword: tbcHistory of International Relations: A timelineGlossary of terms BibliographyIndex

Howard LeRoy Malchow is Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History, Tufts University, USA.

I use the current edition in my International Relations theory course and highly recommend it to my political science students because of its conversation between history and political science. This book works well in a variety of political science and history courses.

• Introduction: History and the Discipline(s) of International RelationsI. The History of a Discipline: Origins, Theory, and Tools1. From the First World War to the Early Cold War2. After Morgenthau: Scientific Realism and Its Critics3. IR, the Other Social Sciences, and the StateII. IR and International History4. The Ancient World: Thucydides and the Search for Origins5. Toward the Machiavellian Moment: IR's Middle Ages6. The Sovereign State and the “Westphalian System” in Early- Modern Europe7. Nation, State, and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century8. The Failure of the New (and Old) Diplomacy and the End of European Hegemony9. Cold War and Post-Cold WarIII. Contemporary IR and the Uses of History10. Civilizations, the Myth of Sovereignty, and the Democratic Peace: The End of IR (As We Know It)?Afterword: tbcHistory of International Relations: A timelineGlossary of terms BibliographyIndex