The Eighty Years' Crisis: International Relations 1919-1999

by Edited by Tim Dunne , Michael Cox , Ken Booth , Foreword by Chris Brown

• ISBN13: 9780521667838
• ISBN10: 0521667836
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book uses the agenda of E. H. Carr, and most obviously extends the title of his classic book The Twenty Years' Crisis, as the point of departure to discuss aspects of the world historical crisis from the end of the First World War until the end of the 1990s. This crisis - identified by 80 years of destructive wars, inequalities in life chances, and today's casualities of the global political economy - has shaped both the practices of international politics and the way they have been conceptualised and reconceptualised by specialists in International Relations. A distinguished group of contributors have written about the development of the academic discipline of International Relations in the inter-war years, the Cold War and post-Cold War eras; ethics, power and nationalism; the conditions of peace and the roles of law and peaceful change; and finally, considering future prospects, about globalization and the end of the old order.

Table of Contents

The Beginnings of Science: 1. The birth of a discipline Peter Wilson

2. The study of international politics during the Cold War Kal J. Holsti

3. The English School on the frontiers of international society: a hermeneutic recollection Roger Epp

The International Crisis: 4. Realism and utopianism revisited Michael Nicholson

5. Theory after the Cold War Georg Sø

rensen

6. On constitution and causation in International Relations Alexander Wendt

Power, Politics and Morality: 7. A turn not taken: ethics in International Relations at the Millennium Mervyn Frost

8. The eighty years' crisis, 1919-1999 - power Paul Hirst

9. Nationalism and after Jan Jindy Pettman

Law and Change: 10. Condition(s) of peace Emanuel Adler

11. Politics, norms and peaceful change Friedrich V. Kratochwil

The Prospects for a New International Order: 12. The end of the old order? Globalization and the prospects for world order David Held and Anthony McGrew.