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Title: Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism by Michael W. Doyle ISBN: 0-393-96947-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.30 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Overrated
Comment: Section of Realism is extraordinary, but the chapters Socialism and Liberalism are somewhat weak.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Foundation for Understanding International Rel.
Comment: I recommend this book to any student of International Relations or Political Philosophy. Doyle does an excellent job of describing the foundations of the main theories in the discipline of International Relations. By starting with the philosophers behind each school of thought, he reveals the often misunderstood assumptions made by scholars in each school. Thus, he shows us why scholars in International Relations frequently talk past each other when discussing a topic.
Rating: 5
Summary: great synthesis of philosophy and international relations
Comment: Before reading Doyle, I had never really come across a good survey of political philosophy which logically relates the classical political theories to their practical corollaries in international relations. I must say I am very much impresssed with Doyle's effort and am delighted to find how well he is able to put all theories (he deals with realism, liberalism and socialism) in an illuminating perspective, and how he is able to ingeniously distinguish the different strands within the respective political theories. What I like in particular is how he associates certain strands of thinking with certain philosophers, and how he then combines and compares these different views within a larger theoretical perpective, thus providing a clear overview on the theories at large. I must admit only having read parts of it, most of the section about realism, all of it on liberalism and some of it on socialism, but still think I have a good enough idea to be able to comment on this book. I initiallty felt inclined to give this book only four stars, since it only deals with a small number of thinkers and theories, but realising the vastness of the subject, I felt I could not withhold Doyle's book the 5th star. So for those seeking the broader view of international relations, going beyond the confines of conventional IR theory, Doyle's book is an absolute eye-opener.
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Title: Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 by Edward H. Carr ISBN: 0061311227 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 April, 1964 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Anarchical Society by Hedley Bull ISBN: 0231102976 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.50 |
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Title: On the Origins of War : And the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan ISBN: 0385423756 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger ISBN: 0671510991 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Ecoviolence by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Jessica Blitt ISBN: 0847688704 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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