Postpositivist International Relations Theory Av Amartya (university Of Calcutta India) Mukhopadhyay

This book provides an introduction to positivist-pluralist theories of international relations (IR) which emerged during the early-and mid-1950s along with Marxist political economics and non-Marxist economic theories of IR.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theories and recent debates on international political economy (IPE). It illustrates the theoretical ideas of the discipline and provides an in-depth understanding of regional and global political economy.

<P>Over the course of four decades of the Cold War, Chakraborti and Chakraborty analyse India''s path from nonalignment towards realism and self-assertion, and finally to confidence-building and interdependence with respect to their neighbours...