本书的第一部分是对现实主义和自由主义的综述。首先介绍了自由主久对现实主义发起的挑战，然后是对其结构现实主义理论的全面论述。第二部分，将自由主义的思想渊源和历程做了全面的总结，同时也将当今的自由主义梳理成为五个派别。本书的后面三个部分的论文主要是讨论了现实主义和自由主义的几个重大争论问题。作为教材，这本书的最大特点是全面地论述了现实主义和自由主义在理念上的差异和在重大国际政治问题上的分歧。

1 The Neoliberal challenge to Realist Theories of World Politics: An Introduction Charles W.Kegley Jr
PART 1
The Foundations of Intetnational relations theory and the Resruuection of the Realist-Liberal debate
2.Theories of International Relations and foreign Policy: Realist and Its
Challengers
Ole R.Holsti
3.Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory
Kenneth N.Waltz
4.Liberalism and World Politics Revisited
Michael W.Doyle
5.Liberal International Theory:Common Threads ,Divergent Strands
Mark W.Zacher and Richard A.Matthew
6.Anarchy and the limits of cooperatin:A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal
Institutionalism
Joseph M.Greco
PART 2
Reevaluating Institutios in the Post-Cold War World
7.Peace in the Liberal world:Does Democracy Matter?
Nicholas G.Onuf and Thomas J.Johnson
8.The United Nations in a New World Order:Reviving the thory
and Practice of International Organization
J.Martin rochester
9.Evolving Patterns of European Integration and Governance:
Implications for theories of World Polictics
Barry B.Hughes
PART 3
The Porblematic Future Peace:Arms and Commerce as contributing Factors?
10.Wwords into Plowshares:Can Fewer Arms Yield More Security?
Robert C.Johansen
11.International Trade as a Force for Peace
Neil R.richardson
APRT 4
Normative constraints on International Conduct?Law and Morality in Internation
-al Affairs
12.International Law and International Order
Harvey Starr
13.Rethinking the Moral Dimensions of Foreign Policy
Joel H.Rosenthal
PART 5
International Relations Theory and the Glogal Future
14.Promise or Peril?Neorealism,Neoliberalism,and the Future of International
Polictics
James Lee Ray
Index
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