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International Relations: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introduction available now: AFRICAN HISTORY BUDDHA Michael Carrithers John Parker and Richard Rathbone BUDDHISM Damien Keown ANARCHISM Colin Ward BUDDHIST ETHICS ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw Damien Keown ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CAPITALISM James Fulcher Julia Annas THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe ANCIENT WARFARE CHAOS Leonard Smith Harry Sidebottom CHOICE THEORY ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman Michael Allingham THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE CHRISTIAN ART John Blair Beth Williamson ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn CLASSICS ARCHITECTURE Mary Beard and John Henderson Andrew Ballantyne CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes THE COLD WAR ART HISTORY Dana Arnold Robert McMahon ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland CONSCIOUSNESS THE HISTORY OF Susan Blackmore ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin CONTEMPORARY ART ATHEISM Julian Baggini Julian Stallabrass AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick CONTINENTAL BARTHES Jonathan Culler PHILOSOPHY THE BIBLE John Riches Simon Critchley THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea COSMOLOGY Peter Coles BRITISH POLITICS THE CRUSADES Anthony Wright Christopher Tyerman CRYPTOGRAPHY FUNDAMENTALISM Fred Piper and Sean Murphy Malise Ruthven DADA AND SURREALISM GALILEO Stillman Drake David Hopkins GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh DARWIN Jonathan Howard GLOBAL CATASTROPHES THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Bill McGuire Timothy Lim GLOBALIZATION DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick Manfred Steger DESCARTES Tom Sorell GLOBAL WARMING DESIGN John Heskett Mark Maslin DINOSAURS David Norman HABERMAS DREAMING J. Allan Hobson James Gordon Finlayson DRUGS Leslie Iversen HEGEL Peter Singer THE EARTH Martin Redfern HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson EGYPTIAN MYTH HINDUISM Kim Knott Geraldine Pinch HISTORY John H. Arnold EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY HOBBES Richard Tuck BRITAIN Paul Langford HUMAN EVOLUTION THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball Bernard Wood EMOTION Dylan Evans HUMAN RIGHTS EMPIRE Stephen Howe Andrew Clapham ENGELS Terrell Carver HUME A. J. Ayer ETHICS Simon Blackburn IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden THE EUROPEAN UNION INDIAN PHILOSOPHY John Pinder Sue Hamilton EVOLUTION INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary Brian and Deborah Charlesworth INTERNATIONAL EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn MIGRATION Khalid Koser FASCISM Kevin Passmore INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM Margaret Walters RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson THE FIRST WORLD WAR ISLAM Malise Ruthven Michael Howard JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves FOSSILS Keith Thomson JUDAISM Norman Solomon FOUCAULT Gary Gutting JUNG Anthony Stevens THE FRENCH REVOLUTION KAFKA Ritchie Robertson William Doyle KANT Roger Scruton FREE WILL Thomas Pink KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner FREUD Anthony Storr THE KORAN Michael Cook LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY LITERARY THEORY David Miller Jonathan Culler POSTCOLONIALISM LOCKE John Dunn Robert Young LOGIC Graham Priest POSTMODERNISM MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner Christopher Butler THE MARQUIS DE SADE POSTSTRUCTURALISM John Phillips Catherine Belsey MARX Peter Singer PREHISTORY Chris Gosden MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope Catherine Osborne MEDIEVAL BRITAIN PSYCHOLOGY John Gillingham and Gillian Butler and Freda McManus Ralph A. Griffiths PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns MODERN ART David Cottington QUANTUM THEORY MODERN IRELAND John Polkinghorne Senia Pašeta RACISM Ali Rattansi MOLECULES Philip Ball THE RENAISSANCE MUSIC Nicholas Cook Jerry Brotton MYTH Robert A. Segal RENAISSANCE ART NATIONALISM Steven Grosby Geraldine A. Johnson NEWTON Robert Iliffe ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner THE ROMAN EMPIRE NINETEENTH-CENTURY Christopher Kelly BRITAIN ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler Christopher Harvie RUSSELL A. C. Grayling and H. C. G. Matthew RUSSIAN LITERATURE NORTHERN IRELAND Catriona Kelly Marc Mulholland THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close S. A. Smith PAUL E. P. Sanders SCHIZOPHRENIA PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone PHILOSOPHY OF LAW SCHOPENHAUER Raymond Wacks Christopher Janaway PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer Samir Okasha SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PLATO Julia Annas ANTHROPOLOGY POLITICS Kenneth Minogue John Monaghan and Peter Just SOCIALISM Michael Newman TRAGEDY Adrian Poole SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce THE TUDORS John Guy SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor TWENTIETH-CENTURY THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan Helen Graham THE VIKINGS Julian Richards SPINOZA Roger Scruton WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling STUART BRITAIN John Morrill WORLD MUSIC TERRORISM Charles Townshend Philip Bohlman THEOLOGY David F. Ford THE WORLD TRADE THE HISTORY OF TIME ORGANIZATION Leofranc Holford-Strevens Amrita Narlikar Available Soon: ANTISEMITISM GAME THEORY Ken Binmore Steven Beller GEOGRAPHY John Matthews and BESTSELLERS John Sutherland David Herbert CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds Helen Morales GERMAN LITERATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM Nicholas Boyle Patricia Aufderheide MEMORY Jonathan Foster THE EUROPEAN UNION MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter (NEW EDITION) John Pinder QUAKERISM Pink Dandelion and Simon Usherwood SCIENCE AND RELIGION EXPRESSIONISM Thomas Dixon Katerina Reed-Tsocha SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier For more information visit our website www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ This page intentionally left blank Paul Wilkinson International Relations A Very Short Introduction 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 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