02358nam a2200217 a 450000100090000000800410000901000170005002000150006702000330008202000330011504000280014808200120017610000230018824500490021126000690026030000270032949000240035650400660038050516650044665000290211112911841100103r20042003enk      b    001 0 eng d  a  2002014154  a1405123524  a0745629598 (hb : alk. paper)  a0745629601 (pb : alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLCdBD-DhAAL00a3272211 aLawson, Stephanie.10aInternational relations /cStephanie Lawson.  aCambridge, UK ;aMalden, MA, USAbPolity,c2003 [Reprinted 2004]  aviii, 160 p. ;c24 cm.0 aShort introductions  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [141]-149) and index.0 aEras in world politics -- The domain of international relations -- Approaches to the study of international relations -- Defining the international -- Mapping the international -- Internationalizing the state system -- Globalizing the international -- Defining the state -- States and empires in the pre-modern world -- Political community and human nature -- The rise of modernity -- The sovereign state and state system -- The modern colonial empires -- Nationalism and the nation-state -- The first conflagration -- The liberal search for peace and security -- From 'peace in our time' to the return of total war -- Realism : telling it how it is -- Neoliberalism, Neorealism and Marxism -- The changing structure of world politics, 1945-1989 -- The end of the Cold War -- Methodology and scientific IR -- From the end of history to a new world order -- The clash of civilizations -- Ethnicity and the deadly politics of identity -- Culture and IR -- Culture and normative theory -- Realist  perspectives on security -- The liberal security order -- Alternative approaches to security and insecurity -- The human security paradigm -- Humanitarian intervention -- Terrorism -- The idea of international society -- Global governance and the United Nations -- Global economic governance and the liberal order -- Global civil society and social movements -- Regionalization and world order -- A fragmenting world order? -- The postcolonial order -- The concept of globalization -- A brief history of globalization -- Globalization versus the state -- Culture and  globalization -- Globalization, the state and normative theory -- Rethinking political community. 0aInternational relations.