Idealism and Realism in International Relations

The author argues for a revised conception of international relations that acknowledges the irreconcilability of realist and idealist theories and concerns itself instead with important substantive issues.

Robert M. A. Crawford is Lecturer of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His previous publications include Regime Theory in the Post-Cold War World: Rethinking Neoliberal Approaches to International Relations and International Relations--Still an American Social Science? Towards Diversity in International Thought (co-edited with D. S. L. Jarvis).