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.
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