What Do We Know about International Relations

Many international relations textbooks focus on concepts and theories, while providing historical or contemporary examples about the topics covered. Bloomsbury’s "What Do We Know about International Relations?" series goes one step further to help students understand how the knowledge contained in a standard textbook was generated and to discover how ideas are contested in the research process. Structured as edited texts bringing together some of the leading researchers in the field, each volume presents the debates in terms of what we know about a topic, why authors reach different theoretical and empirical conclusions, and how specific historical examples of a phenomenon illustrate how these contested ideas work in practice. The books are written at a level that can engage both undergraduate and graduate students. The "What Do We Know about International Relations?" series brings fresh, cutting-edge, and empirically-grounded research to undergraduate students, providing them not just the basics of what has happened in international relations, but providing them the tools to ask questions themselves about how we know these things and how to learn about political phenomena in the future. These volumes model for students how to be engaged, critical thinkers about thorny issues in international politics today and those challenges that will emerge in the future.