International Relations

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From classic texts such as E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis and Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society to journals like International Politics and International Relations and Development Palgrave Macmillan is a long established and leading publisher in International Relations.

Major recent works include Ken Booth and Nicholas J. Wheeler's The Security Dilemma and Stuart J. Kaufman, Richard Little and William C. Wohlforth's The Balance of Power in World History.  Market-leading textbooks include Chris Brown and Kirsten Ainley's Understanding International Relations, Theories of International Relations from Burchill et al., Jan Aart Scholte's Globalization and Robert O'Brien and Marc Williams' Global Political Economy. 

Our International Political Economy series, edited by Tim Shaw, recently celebrated its 21st birthday and was one of the first in the field when it was first established in 1985.  Our Global Issues series has complemented our IPE publishing, covering subjects such as health, the environment, transport, security and war.  Leading political scientist Stephan Leibfried heads up the editorial team for our new Transformations of the State series, which explores the role of the state in an increasingly globalized world.