Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. Among his books are South Sudan's Fateful Struggle (2023), Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare (2020), Handbook of Critical International Relations (2020), and Decency and Difference (2019).

Alexander D. Barder is Associate Professor of International Relations and Graduate Director at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. His most recent book is Global Race War: International Political and Racial Hierarchy (2021).

Preface

List of Key Concepts

Introduction

AFRICAN UNION

Alliance

Anarchy

Anthropocene

Appeasement

Arab League

Arab Spring

Arms control

Arms trade

Authoritarian populism

BALANCE OF POWER

Borders

Bretton Woods

Brexit

Bush Doctrine

CAPITAL CONTROLS

Capitalism

Citizenship

Clash of civilisations

Climate change

Coercion

Cold war

Collective security

Communism

Communitarianism

Concert of powers

Constructivism

Containment

Cosmopolitanism

Crisis

Critical theory

DEBT TRAP

Decolonisation

Democratic peace

Democratisation

Dependency

Deterrence

Development

Diaspora

Digital divide

Dignity

Diplomacy

Disarmament

EMBEDDED LIBERALISM

Emotions

End of history

Enemy combatant

English School

Ethnic cleansing

Ethnicity

Euro

European Union (EU)

Exploitation

Extraterritoriality

FAILED STATE

Feminism

Foreign aid

Foreign direct investment (FDI)

Free trade

Functionalism

GENDER

Genocide

Geopolitics

Global civil society

Global financial crisis

Global governance

Global justice

Global South

Globalisation

Governmentality

Great powers

Group of twenty (G-20)

HEGEMONIC STABILITY THEORY

Hegemony

Hierarchy

Historical sociology

Human rights

Human security

Humanitarian intervention

IDEALISM

Imperialism

Integration

Interdependence

International Criminal Court (ICC)

International criminal tribunals

International law

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International political economy

Intersectionality

International society

Irredentism

Isolationism

JIHAD

Just war

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Legitimacy

Levels of analysis

Liberal internationalism

Loose nukes

MANAGED TRADE

Marxism

Mercantilism

Mercenary

Mercosur

Misperception

Modernisation theory

Multilateralism

Multinational corporation (MNC)

Mutually assured destruction (MAD)

NATION STATE

National interest

Nationalism

Neoliberalism

Newly industrialising countries (NICs)

Non-governmental organisation (NGO)

Non-tariff barrier (NTB)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Nuclear proliferation

ORDER

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

PANDEMIC

Peace-building

Peacekeeping

Peace of Westphalia

Peace studies

Political risk

Population growth

Postcolonialism

Postmodern warfare

Postmodernism

Power

Practice turn

Pre-emption

Preventive diplomacy

Prisoners' dilemma

Public goods

QUEER THEORY

RACE WAR

Realism

Reciprocity

Recognition

Refugees

Regime

Regional trade blocs

Regionalism

Relative gains/absolute gains

Resilience

Responsibility to protect (R2P)

Rogue state

SAFE HAVEN

Sanctions

Secession

Security

Security dilemma

Self-determination

Sovereignty

Structural adjustment programme (SAP)

Structural violence

Superpower

Sustainable development

TERRORISM

Theory

Torture

Tragedy of the commons

UNILATERALISM

United Nations (UN)

WAR

War crime

War on terror

Women in development (WID)

World Bank

World-system theory

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Appendix:

Bibliography

Index