Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations: Liberal-Pluralist and Radical Dimensions

• Discusses the key developments in the Positivist-Pluralist paradigm of IR Theory from the earliest Decision Making Approach of Richard Snyder down to the Regime Theory of Stephen Krasner and Robert Keohane. • Offers an exhaustive analysis of all Marxist, neo-Marxist and non-Marxist political economic and economist perspectives in the Latin American and North American dependency positions of the exploitation of ‘peripheral’ economies in the South by the ‘core’ economies in the north. • While dealing with theories of Regionalism, Early, Old and New, the book introduces South Asian Regionalism and the early regionalism of ancient India. • This book will be extremely useful to the departments of International Relations, Political Science, History, Law and other interdisciplinary Social Sciences subjects like Strategic Studies, Security Studies, etc.