A measure of danger: Memoirs of a British war correspondent

Nicholson, Michael

Harpercollins

Pilgrims Rest

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Conflict Analysis

Barnes&Noble

Natasha's Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Pan/Macmillan

Natasha's story

Macmillan

International Relations: A Concise Introduction

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This concise introductory text has been written for students beginning International Relations or requiring a brief but comprehensive overview. The book outlines key current theories, approaches and controversies and stresses the relationship between the theory of International Relations and the realities of the international system both historically and as it faces the challenge of an increasingly globalised post-Cold War world.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Palgrave HE UK

<p>This concise introductory text has been written for students beginning International Relations or requiring a brief but comprehensive overview. It outlines key theories, approaches and controversies and shows how they relate to the realities of the international system including such contemporary challenges like environmental degradation as well as the more traditional concerns of violence and war, poverty and inequality. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout with new chapters added on globalization and on post-positivist theory.</p>

Red Globe Press

<p>This book, first published in 1989, gives a critical account of formal international relations theory. That formal and mathematical methods can be applied to the study of international relations is often regarded with surprise, but the author demonstrates not only how these methods give insights into problems such as deterrence or arms races but also that the increase in the power of explanatory tools depends on the more rigourous development of theory along these lines. Mathematical methods have been applied to the study of international behaviour since the pioneering work of Lewis Fry Richardson in the 1920s and 1930s. However, it was in the post Second World War period that they became widespread. Dr Nicholson discusses the application of such methods as the theory of games to problems of relationships between states, catastrophe theory to the study of initiation of violence, and probability theory to the question of the probability of nuclear war.</p>

Formal Theories in International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 3)

Cambridge University Press

In this book, Michael Nicholson outlines social scientific approaches to international relations and then describes the problems of rational decision-making in conflict situations. He shows how rationality is in many strategic situations hard to define and often leads to paradoxes such as the prisoners dilemma, and explores rational beliefs about the international system. He examines theories of arms races, alliances, and the international problems of ecology. Here he is critical of the classical school of international relations for a lack of rigor in dealing with the problems of evidence and belief. Finally, Michael Nicholson discusses the philosophy of science, policy, and ethics. This book is both an exposition and a defense of a social scientific approach to international relations. With its emphasis on social scientific approaches, theory building and testing--and above all its clarity and accessibility--it provides students with a key to understanding the complex field of conflict analysis.

Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 19)

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