国际关系理论英文原版书

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<p><strong>Robert, J. and Georg, S.(2003) Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches.Oxford university press</strong></p><p><strong>CONTENT</strong></p><p><strong>1 Why study IR?</strong></p><p><strong>2 IR as an Academic Subject</strong></p><p><strong>3 Realism</strong></p><p><strong>4 Liberalism</strong></p><p><strong>5 International Society</strong></p><p><strong>6 International Political Economy(IPE)</strong></p><p><strong>7 International Political Economy: Contemporary Debate</strong></p><p><strong>8 Methodological Debates: Classical Versus Positivist Approaches</strong></p><p><strong>9 Methodological Debates: Post-Positivist Approaches</strong></p><p><strong>10 New Issues in IR</strong></p>

秋色夏天

<p>我是在外国留学的国际关系的学生，很希望能和国内的同学们保持学习上的交流．</p><p>这本书是我读大一时的第一本国关的书，我会尽力摘取一部分有用的部分，可以作为大家在国关领域的英文阅读材料，也可以使大家了解国外关于国关的学习．总之希望对大家有帮助，希望大家可以共同进步～！以后为国家做点贡献！</p>

秋色夏天

<p>１　<strong>WHY STUDY IR?</strong></p><p><strong>KEY CONCEPTS:</strong></p><p><strong>State Sovereignty:? </strong>a state's characteristic of being politically independent of all other states</p><p><strong>State System: </strong>relations between politically organized human groupings which occupy distinctive territories are not under any higher authority or power, and enjoy and exercise a measure of independence from each other</p><p><strong>Five basic values of a state system: </strong>Security, Freedom, Order, Justice, and Welfare</p><p><strong>Major troditional IR approaches:</strong> Realism, Liberalism, International Society, and IPE (International Political Economy)</p><p><strong>The security dilemma: </strong>states are both a source of security and a threat to security for human beings</p><p><strong>Medieval authority: </strong>an arrangement of dispersed political authority</p><p><strong>Modern state authority: </strong>an arrangement of centralized political authority</p><p><strong>Hegemony: </strong>power and control exercised by a leading state over the other states</p><p><strong>Balance of power: </strong>a doctrine and an arrangement whereby the power of one state (or group of states) is checked by the countervailing power of other states</p>

秋色夏天

<p><strong>International Relations in Everyday Life</strong></p><p>?? IR is the shorthand name for the academic subject of international relations. The main reason why we should study IR is the fact that the entire population of the world is divided into separate territorial political communities, or independent states, which profoundly affect the way people live. Together those states form an international system that is global in extent. At the present time there are almost 200 independent states. Everybody on earth with very few exceptions not only lives in one of those countries but is also a citizen of one of them and very rarely of more than one. So virtually every man, woman, and child on earth is connected to a particular state, and they may not be fully aware of.</p><p>???? State are independent of each other, at least legally: they have sovereignty. But that does not mean they are isolated or insulated from each other. On the contrary, they adjoin each other and affect each other and must therefore somehow find ways to coexist and to deal with each other. They are usually embedded in international markets which affect the policies of their governments and the wealth and welfare of their citizens. That requires that they enter into relations with each other. Complete isolation is usually not an option. When states are isolated and are cut off from the state system, either by their own government or by foreign powers, the people usually suffer as a result. That has been the situation recently with regard to Burma, Libya, North Korea, Iraq, and Iran. The state system is a system of social relations, that is, a system of relations between groups of human beings. Like most other social systems, international relations can have certain advantages and disadvantages for the participants. IR is the study of the nature and consequences of these relations.</p><p>The state system is a distinctive way of organizing political life on earth which has deep historical roots. There have been state systems or quasi-state systems at different times and places in different parts of the world: for example, in ancient India, in ancient Greece, and in Renaissance Italy(Watson1992). However, the subject of IRconventionally dates back to the early modern ear(sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) in Europe, when sovereign states based on adjacent territories were initially established. Ever since the eighteenth century the relations between such independent states have been labeled "international relations". In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the state system was expanded to encompass the entire territory of the earth. The world of states is basically a territorial world: it is a way of politically organizing the world's populated territory, a distinctive kind of territorial political organization which is based on numerous different governments that are legally independent of each other. The only large territory that is not a state is Antarctica, and it is administered by a consortium of states. Today IR is the study of the global state system from varous scholarly perspectives, the most important of which shall be discussed in this book.</p>

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<p>Thank you very much,too</p>

zhishan

me? too

秋色夏天

<p>???? To understand the significance of IR it is necessary to grasp what living in states basically involves. What does it imply? How important is it? How should we think about it? This book is centrally concerned with these questions and aspecially with the last one. The chapters which follow deal with various answers to that fundamental question. This chapter examines the core historical subject-matter of IR: the evolution of the state system and the changing contemporary world of states.</p><p>???? To begin to respond to these questions it may be helpful to expected to uphold: security, freedom, order, justice and welfare. These are social values that are so fundamental to human well-being that they must be protected or ensured in some way. That could be by social organizations other than the state: e.g. by family,clan, ethinic or religious organizations. In the modern era, however, the state has usually been involved as the leading institution in that regard: it is expected to insure these basic values. For example, people generally assume that the state should and will underwrite the value of security, which involves the protection of citizens from internal and external threat. That is?a fundamental concern or interest of states. However, the every existence of independent states affects the value of security: we live in a world of many states, almost all of which are armed at least to some degree. Thus states can both defend and threaten peoples' security, and that paradox of the state system is usually referred to as the "security dilemma". In other words, just like any other human organization, states present problems as well as provide solutions.</p>

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<p>???? Most states are likely to be friendly, non-threatening, and peace-loving. But a few states may be hostile and aggressive and there is no world government to constrain them. That poses a basic and age-old problem of state systems: national security. To deal with that problem most states possess armed forces. Military power is usually considered a necessity so that states can coexist and deal with each other without being intimidated or subjugated. Unarmed states are extremely rare in the history of the state system that we should never lose sight of. Many states also enter into alliances with other states to increase their national security. To ensure that no great power succeeds in achieving a hegemonic position of overall domination, based on intimidation, coercion, or the outright use of force, it is also necessary to construct and maintain a balance of military power. Security is obviously one of the most fundamental values of international relations. That approach to the study of?world politics is typical of realist theories of IR(Morgenthau1960). It operates on the assumption that relations off states can be best characterized as a world in which armed states are competing rivals and periodically go to war with each other.</p><p>????? The second basic value that states are usually expected to uphold is freedom, both personal freedom and national greedom or independence. A fundamental reason for having states and putting up with the burdens that governments place on citizens, such as tax burdens or obligations of military service, is the condition of national freedom or independence which states exist to foster. We cannot be free unless our country is free too: that was made very clear to millions of Czech, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, and Dutch citizens as well as citizens of other countries that were invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Even if our country is free we may still not be free personally, but at least then the problem of our freedom is in our own hands. War threatens and sometimes destroys freedom. Peace fosters freedom. Peace also makes progrssive international change possible, that is, the creation of a better world. Peace and progressive change are obviously among the most fundamental values of international relations. That approach to the study of world politics is typical of liberal theories of IR(Claude1971). It operates on the assumption that international relations can be best characterized as a world in which states cooperate with each other to maintain peace and freedom and to pursue progressive change.</p>

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<p>你在哪个外国学校？我看过海南出版社的国际关系，说是美国大学国际关系学生用书。可惜中文的</p>