Explaining International Relations Since 1945

by Nancy Fugate Woods

Book Overview

History and theory are all too often treated as separate approaches to international relations. This book offers an accessible synthesis of sophisticated theory and in-depth history.

The uses of theory are examined in the opening section which includes a defence of the historical method by John Lewis Gaddis and the arguments for a more scientific method by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. The subsequent chapters of the book take major issues and episodes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198741960
• ISBN13: 9780198741961
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An absolute must for any student of international politics

Short yet comprehensive, very filled but perfectly readable, ambitious yet realistic. Both useful and enjoyable. Good for any student of International Relations at any level, but also for the average cultured person. The book aims not just at telling the history of international relations since 1945, but also at explaining them. In fact, it probably does both things, and in an excellent way ! It provides different and conflicting interpretations, offering the authors' views but without dismissing others. All in all, an excellent reading.