Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse is director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Se-curity Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin.Born in 1955, he received his PhD. from the University of Frankfurt in 1987. From 1997-2001, he was Joint Chair of International Relations at the European University Institute′s Ro-bert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Political Sci-ences in Florence, Italy. His previous teaching and research appointments include the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the University of Konstanz, Germany, as well as Cornell and Yale Universities, and the University of Wyoming. He has also held visiting professorships at Stanford and Harvard Universities.Thomas Risse is co-ordinator of the Research Center 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is founding director of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, and has been chair of the Executive Committee of the Joint Master program in International Relations of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. He has been asso-ciate editor of the journal International Organization. In 2003, he received the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation.Thomas Risse is the author of Cooperation among Democracies. The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton University Press, 1995) and, among others, co-editor of The End of the West. Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (with Jeffrey Anderson and G. John Ikenberry, Cornell University Press, 2008), Regieren ohne Staat? Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (with Ursula Lehmkuhl, Nomos, 2007), Handbook of International Relations (with Walter Carlsnaes and Beth Simmons, Sage, 2002), Transforming Europe. Europeanization and Domestic Change (with Maria Green Cowles and James Caporaso, Cornell University Press, 2001), and The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change (with Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, Cambridge University Press, 1999). Beth Simmons is a Professor of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Previous positions include Assistant Professor at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include international law, international human rights, and international political economy. She is author of Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939 (1995), and is currently working on a book length manuscript on compliance with international human rights obligations. She is a co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of International Relations (2002).

This is not so much a ′handbook′, more a brilliantly conceived and wonderfully designed piece of scholarship that makes a major contribution of its own to the field of IR. Each of the thirty three individual essays does exactly what the editors must have hoped for - provide a thoroughgoing guide to nearly every conceivable topic of interest to the student of international politics. A must buy for libraries and a first-to-go-to reference point for scholars. An outstanding achievement Professor Michael CoxLondon School of Economics The vastly changed, second edition of "The Handbook" extends its run as the most authoritative and convenient source for a comprehensive and sophisticated overview of a vibrant field of scholarship. The 33 chapters are highly informative and up-to-date, and authored by a distinguished and diverse group of international scholars. For an overview and as a reference this is a not-to-be-missed volume that all students of international relations will want to add to their personal library Peter KatzensteinProfessor of International Studies, Cornell University When incredible uncertainty and sheer unpredictability of international relations as witnessed at the dawn of the twentieth-first century often lead actors to get scared and analysts to procrastinate, this thoroughly edited volume gives a reliable guidance to thinking and action to both analysts and actors with its balance of many angles and its thoroughness of normative, theoretical and empirical investigations Takashi InoguchiProfessor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, President, University of Niigata Prefecture It would be hard to find a better one-volume overview of the fieldAnne-Marie SlaughterProfessor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

• PART ONE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSOn the History and Historiography of International Relations - Brian C. SchmidtPhilosophy of Social Science and International Relations - Colin WightEthics and Norms in International Relations - Andrew Hurrell & Terry MacdonaldRational Choice and International Relations - Duncan SnidalConstructivism in International Relations: Sources, Contributions and Debates - Emanuel AdlerCritical Theory, Post-Structuralism and Post-Colonialism - Maja ZehfussFeminist Perspectives on International Relations - Laura Sjoberg & J. Ann TicknerPsychological Explanations of International Decision-Making and Collective Behavior - Janice Gross SteinTheoretical Pluralism in IR: Possibilities and Limits - Jeffrey T. CheckelPART TWO: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSState, Sovereignty and Territory - Thomas J. BierstekerPower and International Relations - David A. BaldwinForeign Policy - Walter CarlsnaesInternational Organizations and Institutions - Lisa L. Martin & Beth A. SimmonsInternational Law - Beth SimmonsNegotiation and Bargaining - John OdellGlobalization and Global Governance - Michael Z rnTransnational Actors and World Politics - Thomas RisseTransnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies - Fabrizio GilardiDomestic Politics and International Relations - Kenneth SchultzComparative Regionalism: European Integration and beyond - Tanja A. BörzelNationalism and Ethnicity in International Relations - Lars-Erik CedermanGreat Power Hierarchies and Strategies in 21st Century World Politics - David A. LakePART THREE: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSInterstate War and Peace - Jack S. LevySecurity Co-Operation - Harald M llerTerrorism and Counterterrorism - Ethan Buena de MesquitaCivil Wars, Conflict Resolution and Bargaining Theory - Barbara F. WalterReligion and International Relations Theory - Monica Duffy ToftInternational Finance - Michael TomzInternational Trade - Helen V. MilnerInternational Migration - Gallya Lahav & Sandra LavenexDevelopment and International Relations - Jana Hönke & Markus LedererInternational Environmental Politics - Ronald B. MitchellInternational Human Rights - Hans Peter Schmitz and Kathryn Sikkink

Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse is director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Se-curity Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin.Born in 1955, he received his PhD. from the University of Frankfurt in 1987. From 1997-2001, he was Joint Chair of International Relations at the European University Institute′s Ro-bert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and the Department of Social and Political Sci-ences in Florence, Italy. His previous teaching and research appointments include the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the University of Konstanz, Germany, as well as Cornell and Yale Universities, and the University of Wyoming. He has also held visiting professorships at Stanford and Harvard Universities.Thomas Risse is co-ordinator of the Research Center 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is founding director of the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, and has been chair of the Executive Committee of the Joint Master program in International Relations of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. He has been asso-ciate editor of the journal International Organization. In 2003, he received the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation.Thomas Risse is the author of Cooperation among Democracies. The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton University Press, 1995) and, among others, co-editor of The End of the West. Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (with Jeffrey Anderson and G. John Ikenberry, Cornell University Press, 2008), Regieren ohne Staat? Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (with Ursula Lehmkuhl, Nomos, 2007), Handbook of International Relations (with Walter Carlsnaes and Beth Simmons, Sage, 2002), Transforming Europe. Europeanization and Domestic Change (with Maria Green Cowles and James Caporaso, Cornell University Press, 2001), and The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change (with Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, Cambridge University Press, 1999). Beth Simmons is a Professor of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Previous positions include Assistant Professor at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include international law, international human rights, and international political economy. She is author of Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939 (1995), and is currently working on a book length manuscript on compliance with international human rights obligations. She is a co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of International Relations (2002).

This is not so much a ′handbook′, more a brilliantly conceived and wonderfully designed piece of scholarship that makes a major contribution of its own to the field of IR. Each of the thirty three individual essays does exactly what the editors must have hoped for - provide a thoroughgoing guide to nearly every conceivable topic of interest to the student of international politics. A must buy for libraries and a first-to-go-to reference point for scholars. An outstanding achievement Professor Michael CoxLondon School of Economics The vastly changed, second edition of "The Handbook" extends its run as the most authoritative and convenient source for a comprehensive and sophisticated overview of a vibrant field of scholarship. The 33 chapters are highly informative and up-to-date, and authored by a distinguished and diverse group of international scholars. For an overview and as a reference this is a not-to-be-missed volume that all students of international relations will want to add to their personal library Peter KatzensteinProfessor of International Studies, Cornell University When incredible uncertainty and sheer unpredictability of international relations as witnessed at the dawn of the twentieth-first century often lead actors to get scared and analysts to procrastinate, this thoroughly edited volume gives a reliable guidance to thinking and action to both analysts and actors with its balance of many angles and its thoroughness of normative, theoretical and empirical investigations Takashi InoguchiProfessor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, President, University of Niigata Prefecture It would be hard to find a better one-volume overview of the fieldAnne-Marie SlaughterProfessor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

• PART ONE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSOn the History and Historiography of International Relations - Brian C. SchmidtPhilosophy of Social Science and International Relations - Colin WightEthics and Norms in International Relations - Andrew Hurrell & Terry MacdonaldRational Choice and International Relations - Duncan SnidalConstructivism in International Relations: Sources, Contributions and Debates - Emanuel AdlerCritical Theory, Post-Structuralism and Post-Colonialism - Maja ZehfussFeminist Perspectives on International Relations - Laura Sjoberg & J. Ann TicknerPsychological Explanations of International Decision-Making and Collective Behavior - Janice Gross SteinTheoretical Pluralism in IR: Possibilities and Limits - Jeffrey T. CheckelPART TWO: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSState, Sovereignty and Territory - Thomas J. BierstekerPower and International Relations - David A. BaldwinForeign Policy - Walter CarlsnaesInternational Organizations and Institutions - Lisa L. Martin & Beth A. SimmonsInternational Law - Beth SimmonsNegotiation and Bargaining - John OdellGlobalization and Global Governance - Michael Z rnTransnational Actors and World Politics - Thomas RisseTransnational Diffusion: Norms, Ideas and Policies - Fabrizio GilardiDomestic Politics and International Relations - Kenneth SchultzComparative Regionalism: European Integration and beyond - Tanja A. BörzelNationalism and Ethnicity in International Relations - Lars-Erik CedermanGreat Power Hierarchies and Strategies in 21st Century World Politics - David A. LakePART THREE: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSInterstate War and Peace - Jack S. LevySecurity Co-Operation - Harald M llerTerrorism and Counterterrorism - Ethan Buena de MesquitaCivil Wars, Conflict Resolution and Bargaining Theory - Barbara F. WalterReligion and International Relations Theory - Monica Duffy ToftInternational Finance - Michael TomzInternational Trade - Helen V. MilnerInternational Migration - Gallya Lahav & Sandra LavenexDevelopment and International Relations - Jana Hönke & Markus LedererInternational Environmental Politics - Ronald B. MitchellInternational Human Rights - Hans Peter Schmitz and Kathryn Sikkink