International Relations Subject Guide: General International Relations

Provides essays on key issues in international relations such as international development, feminist perspectives on international relations, international organizations and globalization. Each essay is accompanied by an extensive bibliography of readings.

See Volume 2 of this set (p. 857 onwards) Part IX: International relations and Part X: Major issues in contemporary world politics. These two sections are particularly helpful, with essays written on contemporary issues in international relations including: theory of international relations, feminist approaches to international relations, the United Nations, globalization, democratization, Latin America: democratization and its consequences, and genocide. Bibliographies at the end of each essay make this a valuable resource.

Covers key information in world politics as well as country information. Articles include detailed discussions of critical historical developments and events, concepts, international law, and organizations.

Provides brief definitions of terms and concepts in international relations. Longer entries include a list of recommended readings on the subject. Publisher's description:
"Using humanistic principles to strip away the jargon and narrowness inherent in much of modern-day political scholarship, this historical encyclopedia reclaims the breadth of vision, the privileging of factual evidence over theory, and the moral tenor prevalent in classical political inquiry. Over 6,000 alphabetically arranged entries accompanied by 29 maps make this single-authored set the definitive desktop reference work on international relations and international history. The book's primary focus is upon the rise of the Great Powers and the course of world civilizations, their formative wars and diplomatic, political and economic relations. But a serious effort is made to cover all of the smaller and less powerful regions and their local history, along with how progressive inclusion into the modern state system affected them, both for good and ill."