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Misunderstanding International Relations

A Focus on Liberal Democracies

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Authors:
  1. Scott Burchill

    1. School of Politics & International Studies, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

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  • Draws a link between well-established theoretical insights and contemporary issues in global politics to reveal anomalies on both sides of the IR coin;
  • Examines the extent to which analysis in the field has been adversely distorted by unfounded political and cultural assumptions
  • Complements and supplements both empirical and theoretical IR courses

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 1-4

  3. Critical Thinking: Part One—The Limits of the Expressible

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 5-26

  4. Critical Thinking: Part Two—Escaping the Zeitgeist and Building an Intellectual Self-Defence

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 27-51

  5. Israel-Palestine: Part One—Do States Have a “Right to Exist”?

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 53-62

  6. Israel-Palestine: Part Two—Australian Foreign Policy and the Israel-Palestine Conflict—Avoiding the Colonialist Narrative

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 63-83

  7. Is There a Deep State?

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 85-105

  8. United States Foreign Policy: Radical Islam and the West

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 107-132

  9. The Vietnam War: Morality and History

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 133-140

  10. Class Power in the United States and Australia

    • Scott Burchill
    Pages 141-160

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 161-164
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About this book

This book examines the ways in which the study and practice of international relations are misunderstood, both by scholars and politicians. It begins by examining critical errors in reasoning and argument which determine the way key issues in the field are discussed and explained. It then explores a number of case studies which are affected by these errors, including the legal status of the modern nation-state, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the idea of the Deep State, the relationship between the West and radical Islam, the impact of moral righteousness on historical understanding, and the role of class in modern Western politics.









Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Politics & International Studies, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

    Scott Burchill

About the author

Scott Burchill is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University. He is the author of The National Interest in International Relations Theory (2005) and co-author and editor of Theories of International Relations (2013).









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