Viotti: Internat Relation Theory _5

by Mark V. Kauppi and Paul R. Viotti

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205082939
• ISBN13: 9780205082933
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Very Interesting! Great Collection Of Historical Tracks

Viotti and Kauppi take a slightly sympathetic view toward neo-conservative "realism" theory in another volume "International Relations Theory". This is a much better overview of the soft-science of IR and the history of IR across a variety of historical tracks. It will be a bookshelf keeper for me for the next 10 years. An excellent overview and quick resource. Not too dense; filled with plenty of useful references in one volume.

An Excellent Graduate Level Textbook

Kauppi and Viotti's work gives a comprehensive comparison between the contending theories of International Relations. Each section is followed by key readings which helps clear any misunderstanding and introduces to the student some of the finest texts supporting each perspective. Truly informative, great book. Recommended to Political Science graduate students everywhere.

Basic about realism, pluralism, globalism

A very good comparative analysis of the international relations theory. The authors first introduce each theory and briefly characterize it, describe characteristic authors and explain the advantages and disadvantages of realists, pluralist and globalist. Following each brief review of a theory are a number of essays of typical authors. I personally used this book to prepare for my pre-exams in political science and there's nothing that comes close to it