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Charles W. Kegley Jr (ed.), Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and The Neoliberal Challenge (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 374 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0 333 638018.
In this edited volume Charles Kegley has chosen to put at centre stage the ongoing debate between realists and what he terms neoliberals. Kegley's text sets out to explore the challenge that this new liberalism presents to the realist (more specifically neorealist) orthodoxy in the contemporary post-Cold War context. Kegley deliberately confines the parameters of his debate, but he makes it clear that this is not the only debate, however, it is the one he feels is of pre-eminent significance.
As the title promises the book is coming from the neoliberal perspective, and the majority of the chapters examine this challenge from the various key issue areas that Kegley has chosen to identify. To do so he sets the book up in five parts. The first part introduces the varying theoretical traditions that are under debate. It is here that the book...