Understanding International Relations - Tapa dura

Reviews of previous editions: "It is entirely characteristic that Chris Brown's text is unlike anybody else's; it is equally characteristic that it is written with a zest, a pace and a sense of fun that is sadly missing from much of the discipline as a whole. Students--and their teachers--will gain a great deal from it. They will also have a good time!"--N.J. Rengger, Political Studies 'Understanding International Relations is a very appealing book...The text succeeds in giving a clear account of all the main theoretical possibilities and, in a non-judgemental but not uncritical way, setting them in context.. I can think of no book more likely to succeed in persuading a sceptical undergraduate--someone convinced of the existence of a self-evident world of facts--that not only is a knowledge of theory necessary to understand international relations, but it is fun."--James Mayall, Review of International Studies

Understanding International Relations is the third edition of a well-established advanced undergraduate and postgraduate text. It has been comprehensively updated to take into account recent literature on the theory of international relations, and events in the world, in particular 9/11 and the war on terror. New chapters have been added on the individual and international relations, identity and nationalism and the implications of US power in the twenty-first century.