International Relations: The Key Concepts

by Martin Griffiths, Terry O'Callaghan, Steven C. Roach

Featuring over twenty new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its second edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations in the post 9/11 era.

Key areas cover international criminal law, human rights, the developing world (the Arab League, African Union), globalization and strategic studies. New entries include:


the English School the Digital Divide the War on Terror the Bush Doctrine the International Criminal Court legitimacy global warming unilateralism the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Featuring suggestions for further reading as well as a unique guide to web sites on international relations, this accessible guide is an invaluable aid to an understanding of this expanding field and is ideal for the student and non-specialist alike.

Genres: International Relations, Reference, Nonfiction, Politics

424 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

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International Relations: The Key Concepts
by Martin Griffiths

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw

International Relations: The Key Concepts is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs:

Comprehensive and up-to-date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations, with an emphasis on contemporary issues.

Entries include:
• diplomacy
• global warming
• terrorism
• human rights
• rogue state
• loose nukes
• United Nations
• security
• arms control
• ethnic cleansing

International Relations is a very broad discipline.

It includes a variety of sub-fields such as diplomatic statecraft and foreign policy analysis, comparative politics, historical sociology, international political economy, international history, strategic studies, military affairs, ethics, and international political theory.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
~Lao Tzu

History is perceived as a continuous process of change.

Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices.
The most critical of these wide-ranging choices are to live a long and healthy life, to be educated, and to have access to resources needed for a decent standard of living.

Development enables people to have these choices.

The process of development should at least create a conducive environment for people, individually and collectively, to develop their full potential and to have a reasonable chance of leading productive and creative lives in accordance with their needs and interests.


Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
~John F. Kennedy


In a broad sense, diplomacy is the entire process through which states conduct their foreign relations. It is the means for allies to cooperate and for adversaries to resolve conflicts without force. States communicate, bargain, influence one another, and adjust their differences through diplomacy.

Facts do not speak for themselves; they must be interpreted.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
~ Barack Obama

[Luke]

The authors provide a thorough but brief treatment of the field of International Relations. While slightly dated, I still find its bibliography invaluable and the work itself as a nice jumping off point for further exploring particular subfields.

[Jonathan]

Dull, but necessary. A thorough survey of the field of international relations.

[Ly Nguyen]

This work by Martin Griffiths was indeed a worthwhile publication regarding the matter of International Relations. It covered the major problems related to International Relations, as well as Foreign Affairs in the modern age. With details and specific manner, this publication provided a lot of applicable information related to International Relations, and the World Affairs. It also provided contextual analysis of different countries and regions. Overall, this is a publication which left impression on me, and it is advisable for anyone concerned about International Affairs.

[Feby Utari]

Very helpful for IR students. All basic concepts are briefly written but have all detailed keyword for each concepts. Easy to understand, reliable and updated.