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dustyduck's review
4.0
The book starts with an introductory chapter defining IR, before explaining history, economics and the concept of war viewed through the lens of the discipline, before finally giving an overview of all the -isms that dominate the discourse of IR. In explaining what the discipline is, and its relationships with other fields of studies like philosophy, history, polsci etc, one truly begins to understand why the discipline requires a field of its own as opposed to being a subset of other similar areas of study (e.g polsci). My initial impression was that the book merely talks about *what* IR is, but the last chapter, and commentaries throughout the middle 3 chapters are also illuminating regarding how IR, and dominant camps of realists/liberals and their more contemporary counterparts have influenced foreign policy.
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