International Relations in a Global Age

The book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes. By assessing a wide range of such state-centred work, Youngs identifies the challenges we must address to grasp the complexity of the contemporary world.

Acknowledgements. Introduction: From International Relations to Global Relations. Section 1: Inside State-Centrism. 1. Embedded State-centrism: From Realism to Neorealism. 2. Conceptual Determinism Revealed. Section II: Beyond State-Centrism. 3. Beyond Superficial Paradigmatism. 4. Beyond the Normative Divide. Section III: The Spaces of Global Relations. 5. States, Time and Space. 6. Political Economy of Spatiality. The Conceptual Challenge: Concluding Thoughts. Notes. Bibliography. Index.