Combining extensive commentary by the authors and excerpts from original scholarship, International Relations Theory evaluates all the major theoretical perspectives that political scientists use to analyze world politics. This unique survey/reader not on
*Readings new to the fifth edition. Chapter 1. Thinking About IR Theory The IR Field in An Age of Globalization Epistemology, Methodology, and Ontology What is Theory? Images Interpretive Understandings Normative Theory A Look Ahead Selected Read