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Martin Griffiths, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations (London: Routledge, 1999), xi + 281 pp., $36.95, ISBN 0415 162289.
This is a very fine book which should be in the hands of every student of international relations. The reason is that, once he or she has read it (and that means reading every word), the ideas of major writers about the subject in the twentieth century will have been made plain, and will be available for further reading and for agreement or disagreement.
Griffiths has grouped his thinkers into nine categories: realism, liberalism, radicalism, theory of international society, international organisation, postmodernism, gender concerns, historical sociology/theories of the state, and theories...