Advancing Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Relations

Steve A. Yetiv is the Louis I. Jaffe Professor of International Relations at Old Dominion University. A two-time Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award winner, his books include Explaining Foreign Policy (Johns Hopkins, 2011);  The Petroleum Triangle (Cornell University Press, 2011); and Myths of the Oil Boom (Oxford University Press, 2015).Patrick James is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.  He is author or editor of 24 books, along with 120 academic articles and book chapters.  A former VP of the International Studies Association, James also served as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies, 2011-13, and president of the Peace Science Society, 2016-17.

• Chapter 1:Pushing Boundaries in the Study of International Relations.- Chapter 2: History, International Relations, and Conflict.- Chapter 3: Jonathan Renshon and Daniel Kahneman – Hawkish Biases and the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict Decision Making.- Chapter 4:Trust, Cooperation, and Conflict : Neuropolitics and International Relations.- Chapter 5: Technology, Conflict and International Relations.- Chapter 6: Anthropology, Conflict, and International Relations.- Chapter 7: Gender in International Relations: Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Conflict.- Chapter 8: Demography in International Relations:  Economics, Politics, Sociology and Conflict.- Chapter 9: International Political Economy and Political Demography: An Interdisciplinary Exploration.- Chapter 10:Systemism and  Foreign  Folicy Analysis: A New Approach to the Study of International Conflict.- Chapter 11: Interdisciplinary Links and Future Directions.