Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of 50 articles reflects the complex inter-relationships between and amongst the practical and theoretical dimensions of contemporary international relations. It combines the classic "state-centric" approach with new divergent perspectives of power, security and military strength.;The new edition is organized into two sections, with the first part discussing the international system in terms of international law, contending systems and security, and the second part covering issues and problems of East-West relations facing world society, ethics and power and population and hunger problems. Other matters reviewed in this work are the shifting emphasis from a "state-centric" approach to international relations to a more comprehensive perspective on international security, now being seen in more than a military context, a revision of the relationship between theory and practice in international relations, the economic dimensions of the North-South debt problems, and the impact of glasnost and perestroika on international relations. This edition has an increased selection of writings by women.
