Handbook of International Relations

Edited by Cameron G. Thies, MSU Foundation Professor and Dean, James Madison College, Michigan State University, USA

‘This new Handbook provides a fantastic and concise discussion of a broad set of core topics in International Relations. Rarely can a reader turn to one resource for such a comprehensive, diverse, and modern blend of topics, but the Thies volume accomplishes this goal admirably.’

• Contents1 Introduction to the Handbook of International Relations 1Cameron G. ThiesPART I INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AS A DISCIPLINE: HISTORY,PHILOSOPHY, AND APPROACHES2 The origins and evolution of a discipline 7Brian Schmidt3 Race and International Relations 22Oumar Ba4 Philosophy of science and international studies: a chronicle of a fraughtrelationship 38Patrick Thaddeus Jackson5 Ethics and International Relations 56Brent J. Steele and Eric A. Heinze6 Landscapes of critical International Relations 73Laura Sjoberg7 Contested essential concepts in International Relations 88Felix Berenskötter and Stefano GuzziniPART II METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS8 Quantitative analyses and formal modeling in International Relations 106Kelly M. Kadera and Willow Kreutzer9 Experimental and survey research in International Relations 125Katja B. Kleinberg10 Computational methods in International Relations 141Babak Rezaee Daryakenari11 Network analysis in International Relations 156Olga Chyzh12 Methods for critical International Relations 169Xymena Kurowska and Freya CumberlidgePART III INTERNATIONAL SECURITY13 Security studies 185Edward Newman14 Critical approaches to security studies 200Keith Krause15 Diplomatic studies 218Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Halvard Leira16 Intelligence studies 236Loch K. Johnson17 Regional powers and comparative regionalism 252Leslie WehnerPART IV PEACE SCIENCE AND CONFLICT PROCESSES18 Peace science and conflict processes 269Idean Salehyan19 Civil conflict 286Jessica Maves Braithwaite20 Terrorism: competition, mimicry and claims of responsibility 307Mia Bloom21 Cybersecurity and technological innovations: linking debates ondeterrence, human rights, and the future 326Aaron Brantly22 Political demography 342Jennifer D. SciubbaPART V FOREIGN POLICY23 Comparative foreign policy 356Cristian Cantir and Juliet Kaarbo24 Bridging the gap in International Relations 371Susanna P. Campbell and Jordan Tama25 Foreign policy decision-making: a practical guide for the FPDM-curious 384Ryan Beasley26 Overcoming the agent-structure problem in International Relations 401Marijke Breuning27 Foreign policy as public policy 417Kai Oppermann and Sebastian Harnisch28 Analyses of foreign policy Beyond FPA 432Halvard LeiraPART VI INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY29 The politics of international money and finance 450Andrew Rys and David A. Steinberg30 International trade 469Michael Plouffe31 Critical international political economy: critical theory and its critique ofliberalism 487J. P. SinghPART VII THE LEGALIZATION OF WORLD POLITICS32 International organizations: frontiers at the international and domesticlevels in the study of international cooperation 505Julia Gray33 International law 528Dana Zartner34 Human rights and state repression 545Jacqueline Rubin DeMeritt35 International Relations and the global environment 562Kate O’NeillPART VIII THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF PEOPLE36 Nationalism and ethnicity in the study of International Relations 584Erin K. Jenne and Harris Mylonas37 Global health and International Relations 604Sara E. Davies38 International communication and International Relations 619Kenneth Rogerson39 The complex and increasingly understood interplay between religion,peace, and violence in 635Monica Duffy Toft