The political discourse of anarchy
Subtitle: a disciplinary history of international relations
By: Brian C. Schmidt.
Series: SUNY series in global politics
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: International relations -- Study and teaching.
Description: This detailed disciplinary history of the field of international relations examines its early emergence in the mid-nineteenth century to the period beginning with the outbreak of World War II. It demonstrates that many of the commonly held assumptions about the field's early history are incorrect, such as the presumed dichotomy between idealist and realist periods.

By showing how the concepts of sovereignty and anarchy have served as the core constituent principles throughout the history of the discipline, and how earlier discourse is relevant to the contemporary study of war and peace, international security, international organization, international governance, and international law, the book contributes significantly to current debates about the identity of the international relations field and political science more generally.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.