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RR 2015/094 The Oxford Companion to International Relations Editor in chief Joel Krieger Oxford University Press Oxford 2014 2 vols. ISBN 978 0 19 973887 8 (print); ISBN 978 0 19 973920 2 (online) £255 $395 Oxford Companions to Political Studies Also available online through Oxford Reference at www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/ 9780199738878.001,0001/acref-9780199738878
Keyword International relations
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-01-2015-0011
According to the promotional material on the publisher's website, this new two-volume Oxford companion (http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/ 9780199738878.do) is based on The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World first published in 1993 and updated by a second edition in 2001 (Krieger, 2001). The editor of both works is Joel Krieger, Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and author of many books and articles, especially on British and European politics (in the UK, Krieger is probably best known as the author, with David Coates, of Blair's War, Coates and Krieger, 2004), comparative social policy and the politics of globalization. Krieger is also editor of The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (Krieger, 2013) which, together with The Oxford Companion to American Politics (Coates, 2012), are other recent contributions to The Oxford Companion to Political Studies series. Although the publisher's website publicity for the print version is strangely reticent on electronic availability, The Oxford Companion to International Relations is also available online, along with the other companions mentioned above, through Oxford Reference. Further information on the online version with a full listing of the articles provided can be obtained at www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/ acref/9780199738878.001.0001/acref9780199738878, but this review is based on the print set available as two hardback volumes, sturdily but somberly bound between dark-brown covers.
According to Krieger's Preface, The Oxford Companion to International Relations is "the...