Russian Foreign Policy and International Relations Theory

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9780754611950 | 0754611957
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/28/2000

Rent

(Recommended)

$113.02

Term

Due

Price

Semester

Dec 13

$118.97

Quarter

Aug 16

$113.02

Short Term

Jul 19

$107.07

*This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.
Buy New

Usually Ships in 3-5 Business Days

$162.54
eBook

Available Instantly

Online: 180 Days

Downloadable: 180 Days

$35.25

An original and challenging examination of how to transform post-Sovietological study of Soviet and Russian foreign policy into a more integrated part of the Social Sciences and International Relations Theory. This book represents the first detailed and sustained synthesis international relations theory and Soviet/Russian foreign and security policy in academic literature.

Acknowledgements

vii

The Problem and the Argument

(8)

From Area Studies to a Social Science and Beyond

(3)

Scope and Structure of the Present Study

(5)

How to Evaluate Theories?

(26)

Facts and Theories

(2)

Comparison of Theories and the Incommensurability Thesis

(16)

Summing Up the Philosophical Premises

(7)

The Heritage of Soviet Foreign Policy Studies

(64)

The Growth of the Field

(13)

From Early Studies to Single-Factor Theories

(4)

Traditionalism vs. Science

(6)

Towards the Third/Fourth Debate in Russian Foreign Policy Studies

(3)

Theoretical Dimensions of Change and Continuity

(30)

History, Geopolitics, and National Interest

(12)

From Ideology to Identity

(8)

The Nature of the Political System

(7)

External Context of Foreign Policy

(3)

Looking Beneath the Surface of Sovietology

(21)

Sovietology and Scientific Development

(4)

Understanding and Explaining

(1)

Levels, Agents, and Structures

(15)

Russia and the International System

(86)

Two Sets of Test Questions from Three Perspectives

(2)

Subsystem Dominance or Power of Structure?

101

(29)

Structure and Units

101

(22)

Realists as Pessimists and Optimists

123

(7)

Interdependence, Issue Areas, and Regimes

130

(17)

From Interdependence to Regime Theory

130

(10)

Institutionalisation as a Variable

140

(7)

Constructing Interests, Identity, and Norms

147

(13)

The Continuum of International Systems

147

(6)

Reproducing and Producing International Norms and Rules

153

(7)

Making Theoretical Choices

160

(25)

Beyond Incommensurability in International Relations Theory?

161

(4)

The Uses and Abuses of Lakatos

165

(7)

The Heuristic and Instrumental Value of an Approach

172

(13)

Russian Foreign Policy Decision-Making

185

(26)

Actors and Action Principle

185

(17)

The Preferences of a Rational State

186

(5)

The Limits of Bureaucratic Politics

191

(3)

Rationality of a Decision-Maker

194

(3)

How to Deal with the 'Realities' of Decision-Making?

197

(5)

The Synthesis: A Dynamic Decision-Making System

202

(9)

The Argument Restated: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

211

(6)

Bibliography

217

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Russian Foreign Policy and International Relations Theory

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials