NLU Meghalaya Library

Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

History and international relations : from the ancient world to the 21st century / Howard LeRoy Malchow.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London, England : Zed Books, 2020Distributor: [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021Edition: 2nd editionDescription: 1 online resource (x, 394 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350113077
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 327 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ1305 .M3315 2020eb
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also published in print.
Contents:
Introduction: History and discipline(s) of international relations -- Part I. The history of discipline: Origins, theory, and tools -- From the First World War to the Early Cold War -- After Morgenthau: Scientific realism and its critics -- IR, the other social sciences, and the state -- Part II. IR and international history -- The ancient world: Thucydides and the search for origins -- Toward the Machiavellian moment: IR's Middle Ages -- The sovereign state and the "Westphalian System" in Early-Modern Europe -- Nation, state, and empire in the Long Nineteenth Century -- The failure of the new (and old) diplomacy and the end of European hegemony -- Cold War and Post-Cold War -- Part III. Contemporary IR and the uses of history -- Civilizations, the myth of sovereignty, and the democratic peace: The end of IR (as we know it)?.
Summary: "This updated and enhanced second edition of History and International Relations charts the foundations, development and use of International Relations from a historian's perspective. Exploring its engagement with the history of war, peace and foreign relations this volume provides an account of international relations from both western and non-western perspectives, its historical evolution and its contemporary practice. Examining the origin of dominant IR theories, exploring key moments in the history of war and peace that shaped the discipline, and analysing the Eurocentric nature of current theory and practice, Malchow provides a full account of the relationship between history and IR from the ancient world to modern times." -- Provided by publisher.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: History and discipline(s) of international relations -- Part I. The history of discipline: Origins, theory, and tools -- From the First World War to the Early Cold War -- After Morgenthau: Scientific realism and its critics -- IR, the other social sciences, and the state -- Part II. IR and international history -- The ancient world: Thucydides and the search for origins -- Toward the Machiavellian moment: IR's Middle Ages -- The sovereign state and the "Westphalian System" in Early-Modern Europe -- Nation, state, and empire in the Long Nineteenth Century -- The failure of the new (and old) diplomacy and the end of European hegemony -- Cold War and Post-Cold War -- Part III. Contemporary IR and the uses of history -- Civilizations, the myth of sovereignty, and the democratic peace: The end of IR (as we know it)?.

Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.

"This updated and enhanced second edition of History and International Relations charts the foundations, development and use of International Relations from a historian's perspective. Exploring its engagement with the history of war, peace and foreign relations this volume provides an account of international relations from both western and non-western perspectives, its historical evolution and its contemporary practice. Examining the origin of dominant IR theories, exploring key moments in the history of war and peace that shaped the discipline, and analysing the Eurocentric nature of current theory and practice, Malchow provides a full account of the relationship between history and IR from the ancient world to modern times." -- Provided by publisher.

Also published in print.

Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.