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The preface emphasizes the shift to a collaborative book and highlights substantial updates reflecting globalization and its aftershocks following 9/11. The edition revises early chapters, reorganizes global governance and economy material, removes an outdated “South” chapter, and adds new analysis on identity, the return of religion, nationalism, and the individual as a key international actor, with an expanded treatment of inequality.","Understanding International Relations  \nThird Edition  \nChris Brown with Kirsten Ainley  \nUNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS  \nAlso by Chris Brown  \nInternational Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches Political Restructuring in Europe (editor)  \nInternational Relations in Political Thought (editor with Terry Nardin and N.J. Rengger)  \nUnderstanding  \nInternational Relations  \nThird Edition  \nChris Brown with Kirsten Ainley  \n© Chris Brown 1997, 2001, 2005  \nAll rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.  \nThe authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nFirst edition 1997  \nSecond edition 2001  \nThird edition 2005  \nPublished by  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and  \n175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010  \nCompanies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries.  \nISBN-13: 9781–4039–4663–8 hardback  \nISBN-10: 1–4039–4663–9 hardback  \nISBN-13: 9781–4039–4664–5 paperback  \nISBN-10: 1–4039–4664–7 paperback  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Brown, Chris, 1945–  \nUnderstanding international relations / Chris Brown with Kirsten Ainley – 3rd ed.  \n[p. cm](p. cm)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 1–4039–4663–9 – ISBN 1–4039–4664–7 (pbk.)  \n1. International relations. I. Ainley, Kirsten. II. Title.  \nJZ1305.B76 2005  \n327—dc22 2004066392  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Printed in China  \nContents  \n11 International Relations and the Individual: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian War 207  \nIntroduction 207  \nUniversal human rights 208  \nRights and international law 213  \nHumanitarian intervention 221  \nConclusion 228  \n12 US Hegemony and World Order 232  \nIntroduction 232  \nAn American century – again? 232  \nIdeology and US strategic doctrine 237  \nThe significance of 9/11 240  \nThe United States and Europe: Mars and Venus? 242  \nAmerica, the war on terror and the non-Western world 245  \nEmpire? 248  \nWorld order in the twenty-first century 250  \nBibliography 255  \nIndex 286  \nPreface to the Third Edition  \nThe most important change to the third edition of Understanding International Relations is that this is now a collaborative book. Kirsten Ainley wrote Chapter 11, revised Chapters 2–6, carried out bibliographical work for the entire book, and read and commented on every chapter. This collaboration has worked remarkably well; Kirsten has produced an outstanding chapter, and the book as a whole is much improved by her contribution. In short, this is now her book as well as mine, although, since the basic structure and many of its idiosyncrasies are inherited from earlier editions, I remain, in the last resort, solely responsible for its content.  \nCHRIS BROWN  \nIn the Preface to the last edition a fuller account of globalization in future editions was promised and we hope we have delivered on this promise in the third edition. 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