Download or read book Theories of International Relations, Third Edition written by Scott Burchill and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fully updated and revised third edition of this widely used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field including an entirely new chapter on Realism by Jack Donnelly. The introduction explains the nature of theory and the reasons for studying international relations in a theoretically informed way. The nine chapters which follow--written by leading scholars in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--provide thorough examinations of each of the major approaches currently prevailing in the discipline.