Pt. 1. Introduction. Between Utopia and reality: the practical discourses of international relations / Christian Reus-Smit & Duncan Snidal -- pt. 2. Imagining the discipline. The state and international relations / David A. Lake ; From international relations to global society / Michael Barnett & Kathryn Sikkink ; The point is not just to explain the world but to change it / Robert W. Cox ; A disabling discipline? / Phillip Darby -- pt. 3. Major theoretical perspectives. Eclectic theorizing in the study and practice of international relations / Peter Katzenstein & Rudra Sil ; Realism / William C. Wohlforth ; The ethics of realism / Jack Donnelly ; Marxism / Benno Teschke ; The ethics of Marxism / Nicholas Rengger ; Neoliberal institutionalism / Arthur A. Stein ; The ethics of neoliberal institutionalism / James L. Richardson ; The new liberalism / Andrew Moravcsik ; The ethics of the new liberalism / Gerry Simpson ; The English school / Tim Dunne ; The ethics of the English school / Molly Cochran ; Constructivism / Ian Hurd ; The ethics of constructivism / Richard Price ; Critical theory / Richard Shapcott ; The ethics of critical theory / Robyn Eckersley ; Postmodernism / Anthony Burke ; The ethics of postmodernism / Peter Lawler ; Feminism / Sandra Whitworth ; The ethics of feminism / Jacqui True -- pt. 4. The question of method. Methodological individualism and rational choice / Andrew H. Kydd ; Sociological approaches / Friedrich Kratochwil ; Psychological approaches / James Goldgeier & Philip Tetlock ; Quantitative approaches / Edward D. Mansfield & Jon C. Pevehouse ; Case study methods / Andrew Bennett & Colin Elman ; Historical methods / Joel Quirk -- pt. 5. Bridging the subfield boundaries. International political economy / John Ravenhill ; Strategic studies / Robert Ayson ; Foreign-policy decision-making / Douglas T. Stuart ; International ethics / Terry Nardin ; International law / Michael Byers -- pt. 6. The scholar and the policy-maker. Scholarship and policy-making: who speaks truth to whom? / Henry R. Nau ; International relations: the relevance of theory to practice / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- pt. 7. The question of diversity. International relations from below / David L. Blaney & Naeem Inayatullah ; International relations theory from a former Hegemon / Richard Little -- pt. 8. Old and new. The concept of power and the (un)discipline of international relations / Janice Bially Mattern ; Locating responsibility: the problem of moral agency in international relations / Toni Erskine ; Big questions in the study of world politics / Robert O. Keohane ; The failure of static and the need for dynamic approaches to international relations / Richard Rosecrance ; Six wishes for a more relevant discipline of international relations / Steve Smith.