The state of present day International relation is more complex than the state of discipline in the mid-to-late twentieth century. Theory and practice of International Relations in the new millennium could well be seen as a confluence of different streams of thought and action that have evolved in this context since the creation of modern state system in the 17th century, and particularly during lat fifty years. Beginning with the Westphalian system established in 1648, and continuing in the twentieth century with the onset of Cold War, emergence of the Third World, spread of Globalization, and the rise of Civil Society, this multi-level structure of International Relations is too complex to be understood by shutting ourselves up in any one or the other school of thought. Polarization in thought between the “economic†and “politicalâ€, between the “domestic†and the “internationalâ€, or even between “Realism†and “Liberalismâ€, seems artificial, and divorced from reality. This book explores International Relations with a broader concept of globalised states as they have developed over the last half-century. The traditional pattern, which automatically took the sovereign state and state-systems as the starting point of investigation, is no longer sufficient for a realistic understanding of International Relations. The old madels of sovereignty and democracy are not capable of providing good governance in a globalizing world. The campaigns of global society and the bottom up pressure of citizen activism have become essential to both the theory and practice of International Relations. The present book attempts to analyse International Relation in the light of the five major trends mentioned above to provide a comprehensive coverage of all the important political, economic and social structures and processes that are essential for an indepth understanding of the field.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sunil Sondhi
Sunil Sondhi is Reader in Political Science in the University of Delhi. After completing his doctoral research from the University of Delhi, Sunil Sondhi did post-doctoral research at the George Washington University, USA, and University of Toronto, Canada. during his distinguished academic career spanning more than two decades Sunil Sondhi has bagged many international research awards. These include: Harry S. Truman Institute Research Award (1987); Johen F. Kennedy Foundatiion Research Award (1989); Olive I. Reddick Award (1990); J. William Fulbright Fellowship (1992); Gerald R. Ford Foundatiion Research Award (1993); Rockefeller University Research Award (1994); and Salzburg Program Fellowship (1995). He was awarded the shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship twice, in 1995 and 1999. In the year 2000, Sunil Sondhi was awarded the prestigious Canada Asia-Pacific Award by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada, for research on Governance and Development in South Asia. He is the first Indian scholar to be honoured with this award. In the same Year, he was also awarded the Leadership Excellence Award by the American Biographical Institute. In 2003, Dr, Sondhi was awarded the Shastri Applied Reserach Porject Award by the Canadian International Development Agnecy, for research on Environmental Management. Sunil Sondhi has pubished extensively in Scholarly journals on International relations and organization, and has more than one hunred research paprs and articles to his credit. He has presented several research papers at interntaional conferences held in the US, UK, Canada, France, germany, Austria, Sweden, and New Zealand. His has published six books: Science Technology and India's Foreign Policy (1994); United Nationa in a Changing Woprld (1998); Global Terror (2001); Corruiption: The Asian Experience (2002); Global State (2002); and Canada: Today and Tommorrow (Co-Editor) (2003). Dr. Sondhi has been a Trustee of Indian Association of American trustee of Indian Association of American Studies, and is now the Secretary-General of Fulbright alumni Association.
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