The Eighty Years' Crisis
International Relations 1919-1999

An examination of International Relations, providing a survey of the discipline's past and the key issues of the future.

Tim Dunne (Edited by), Michael Cox (Edited by), Ken Booth (Edited by), Chris Brown (Foreword by)

9780521667838, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 March 1999

268 pages
24.8 x 17.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg

' … an excellent volume, with both breadth and sophistication, deserving of a wide readership in the study of world politics.' David Dessler, College of William of Mary

This book uses the agenda of E. H. Carr, and most obviously extends the title of his classic book The Twenty Years' Crisis, as the point of departure to discuss aspects of the world historical crisis from the end of the First World War until the end of the 1990s. This crisis - identified by 80 years of destructive wars, inequalities in life chances, and today's casualities of the global political economy - has shaped both the practices of international politics and the way they have been conceptualised and reconceptualised by specialists in International Relations. A distinguished group of contributors have written about the development of the academic discipline of International Relations in the inter-war years, the Cold War and post-Cold War eras; ethics, power and nationalism; the conditions of peace and the roles of law and peaceful change; and finally, considering future prospects, about globalization and the end of the old order.

The Beginnings of Science: 1. The birth of a discipline Peter Wilson
2. The study of international politics during the Cold War Kal J. Holsti
3. The English School on the frontiers of international society: a hermeneutic recollection Roger Epp
The International Crisis: 4. Realism and utopianism revisited Michael Nicholson
5. Theory after the Cold War Georg Sørensen
6. On constitution and causation in International Relations Alexander Wendt
Power, Politics and Morality: 7. A turn not taken: ethics in International Relations at the Millennium Mervyn Frost
8. The eighty years' crisis, 1919–1999 - power Paul Hirst
9. Nationalism and after Jan Jindy Pettman
Law and Change: 10. Condition(s) of peace Emanuel Adler
11. Politics, norms and peaceful change Friedrich V. Kratochwil
The Prospects for a New International Order: 12. The end of the old order? Globalization and the prospects for world order David Held and Anthony McGrew.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]