An examination of International Relations, providing a survey of the discipline's past and the key issues of the future.

The Beginnings of Science: 1. The birth of a discipline Peter Wilson; 2. The study of international politics during the Cold War Kal J. Holsti; 3. The English School on the frontiers of international society: a hermeneutic recollection Roger Epp; The International Crisis: 4. Realism and utopianism revisited Michael Nicholson; 5. Theory after the Cold War Georg Sørensen; 6. On constitution and causation in International Relations Alexander Wendt; Power, Politics and Morality: 7. A turn not taken: ethics in International Relations at the Millennium Mervyn Frost; 8. The eighty years' crisis, 1919¿1999 - power Paul Hirst; 9. Nationalism and after Jan Jindy Pettman; Law and Change: 10. Condition(s) of peace Emanuel Adler; 11. Politics, norms and peaceful change Friedrich V. Kratochwil; The Prospects for a New International Order: 12. The end of the old order? Globalization and the prospects for world order David Held and Anthony McGrew.