The Oxford Companion to International Relations examines the international relations and political dynamics of countries, peoples, and organizations and allows politics to be viewed from a wider foundation and interconnected relationships.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Common Abbreviations Used in This Work
• Topical Outline of Entries
• Directory of Contributors
• A
• Afghanistan
• Africa, Francophone
• Africa, Portuguese-speaking
• African Union
• Africa–United States Relations
• AIDS
• Alliance
• Al-Qaeda
• Amazon Development
• American Exceptionalism
• American Foreign Policy
• Amnesty International
• Anarchy
• Antarctica
• Antiglobalization Movement
• Antisemitism
• APEC
• Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Arab League
• Arab Nationalism
• Arab Spring
• Argentina
• Arms Control
• Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• Aung San Suu Kyi (b. 1945)
• B
• Balance of Payments
• Balance of Power
• Balfour Declaration
• Balkans
• Baltic States
• Basic Needs
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Belgium
• Benedict XVI
• Blair, Tony (b. 1953)
• Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830)
• Border Disputes
• Bosnian War
• Boundary Disputes
• Brazil
• Bretton Woods System
• BRIC Countries
• Britain
• British–United States Relations
• Bureaucratic Politics
• Bush, George Herbert Walker (b. 1924)
• Bush, George W. (b. 1946)
• Bush Doctrine
• C
• Canada
• Capitalism
• Caribbean Regional Associations
• Carter, Jimmy (b. 1924)
• Castro, Fidel
• Central Europe
• Central Intelligence Agency
• China
• China–United States Relations
• Christianity
• Churchill, Winston (1874–1965)
• Civil Society
• Clausewitz, Carl von (1780–1831)
• Climate Change
• Clinton, Bill (b. 1946)
• Cold War
• Collective Security
• Colonial Empires
• Commonwealth of Independent States
• Communism
• Comparative Advantage
• Conservatism
• Constructivism
• Containment
• Cooperation, International
• Cosmopolitanism
• Counterinsurgency
• Court of Justice of the European Union
• Cuba
• Cuban Foreign Policy
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cyberpolitics
• D
• Darfur
• da Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula
• Dayton Peace Accords
• Decolonization
• De Gaulle, Charles
• Democratic Peace Theory
• Dependency
• Détente
• Deterrence
• Developing Countries
• Development and Underdevelopment
• Diplomacy
• Disarmament
• E
• Economic and Monetary Union
• Economic Commission for Africa
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Economic Community of West African States
• Egypt
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890–1969)
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Emerging Powers
• Empire
• Empires, Colonial
• Environmentalism
• Epistemic Communities
• European Union
• European Union Council of Ministers
• Export-Led Growth
• F
• Failed States
• Famine
• Feminist Theory and International Relations
• Finance, International
• Food Politics
• Force, Use of
• Foreign Aid
• Foreign Policy
• Foreign Workers
• France
• Free Trade
• Functionalism
• Fundamentalism
• G
• Game Theory
• Gandhi, Mohandas
• Gaulle, Charles de (1890–1970)
• Genocide
• Geopolitics
• German Unification
• Germany, Federal Republic of
• Global Governance
• Globalization
• Globalization and Inequality
• Global Justice Movement
• Gorbachev, Mikhail
• Gramsci, Antonio
• Great Lakes Region
• Green Revolution
• Grotius, Hugo
• Group of Seven/Group of Eight
• Group of Twenty
• Guerrilla Warfare
• Gulf States
• Gulf War
• H
• Hegemonic Stability Theory
• Hegemony
• Helsinki Accords
• Hiroshima
• Hispanic Americans
• Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945)
• HIV/AIDS
• Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969)
• Holocaust
• Humanitarian Intervention
• Human Rights
• I
• Idealism
• Immigration
• Imperialism
• Import-Substitution Industrialization
• India
• Indian Ocean Region
• Indonesia
• Intelligence
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Interdependence
• International Cooperation
• International Court of Justice
• International Criminal Court
• International Debt
• International Labor Organization
• International Law
• International Migration
• International Monetary Fund
• International Organizations
• International Political Economy
• International Public Finance
• International Relations
• International Relations Theory
• International Security
• International Systems
• Iran
• Iranian Revolution
• Iran-Iraq War
• Iraq
• Iraq, US Invasion of
• Islam and Democracy
• Isolationism, Myth of
• Israel
• Italy
• J
• Japan
• Jihad
• Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908–1973)
• June War of 1967
• Just War Theory
• K
• Kant, Immanuel
• Kashmir, Conflict in
• Kennan, George George Kennan (1904–2005)
• Keynesianism
• Khomeini, Ruhollah (1902–1989)
• Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
• Korea, Republic of
• Korean War
• Kosovo War
• L
• Latin American and Caribbean Regional Organizations
• Latin America–United States Relations
• Latino Americans
• Law of the Sea
• League of Nations
• Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (1870–1924)
• Leninism
• Liberal Institutionalism
• Liberalism
• Liberation Theology
• Locke, John (1632–1704)
• Lomé Convention/Cotonou Agreement
• Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio (b. 1945)
• M
• Maastricht Treaty
• Mandela, Nelson (1918–2013)
• Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
• Marshall Plan
• Marx, Karl (1818–1883)
• Marxism
• Mass Media
• Media Coverage of International Affairs
• Mercantilism
• Mercenaries
• Mercosur
• Merkel, Angela (b. 1954)
• Mexico
• Middle East
• Migration, International
• Military-Industrial Complex
• Millennium Development Goals
• Minh, Ho Chi
• Monroe Doctrine
• Mozambique
• Multiculturalism
• Multilateralism
• Multinational Corporations
• Munich Conference
• N
• NAFTA
• Nasser, Gamal Abdel (1918–1970)
• Nationalism
• National Liberation Movements
• NATO
• Nehru, Jawaharlal (1889–1964)
• Neoconservativism
• Neofundamentalism
• Newly Industrialized Countries
• Nigeria
• 9/11
• 1989
• Nixon, Richard M. (1913–1994)
• Nkrumah, Kwame
• Non-Aligned Movement
• Nongovernmental Organizations
• Nonproliferation, Nuclear
• North American Free Trade Agreement
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• North Korea
• North-South Relations
• Nuremberg Trials
• O
• Obama, Barack (b. 1961)
• October War of 1973
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Organization of African Unity
• Organization of American States
• P
• Pacific Region
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Palestine Liberation Organization
• Peace
• Peacekeeping
• Peloponnesian War
• Poland
• Political Science
• Population Policy
• Potsdam Conference
• Power
• Prebisch, Raúl (1901–1986)
• Preemptive and Preventive War
• Prisoner's Dilemma
• Private Military and Security Companies
• Prostitution
• Public Opinion
• Putin, Vladimir
• R
• Rational Choice Theory
• Reagan, Ronald
• Realism
• Refugees
• Regime
• Reproductive and Sexual Politics
• Responsibility to Protect
• Revolution
• Rogue States
• Rome, Treaty of
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945)
• Russia
• Rwandan Genocide
• S
• Sanctions
• Sarkozy, Nicolas (b. 1955)
• Saudi Arabia
• Security
• Security Council
• Security Dilemma
• Self-Determination
• September 11, 2001
• Sexual Violence
• Sharia
• Singapore
• Social Mobility
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Southern African Development Community
• South-South Cooperation
• Sovereignty
• Soviet Union
• Space
• Spain
• Spanish Civil War
• Srebrenica Genocide
• Stalin, Joseph (1879–1953)
• Stalinism
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties
• Structural Adjustment Program
• Suez Crisis
• Sustainable Development
• Suu Kyi, Aung San
• Syria
• T
• Taliban
• Terrorism
• Third World
• Thucydides
• Torture
• Trade Agreements, Bilateral and Regional
• Transitional Justice
• Treaty of Rome
• Treaty of Versailles
• Truman, Harry S. (1884–1972)
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Tse-tung, Mao
• Turkey
• U
• UNDP
• United Kingdom–United States Relations
• United Nations
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• United Nations Development Programme
• United States
• United States Foreign Policy
• United States Foreign Relations: Africa
• United States Foreign Relations: Central America
• United States Foreign Relations: China
• United States Foreign Relations: Europe and the European Union
• United States Foreign Relations: India
• United States Foreign Relations: Iran
• United States Foreign Relations: Japan
• United States Foreign Relations: Latin America
• United States Foreign Relations: North and South Korea
• United States Foreign Relations: Russia
• United States Special Relationship with the United Kingdom
• V
• Versailles, Treaty of
• Vietnam War
• Von Clausewitz, Carl
• W
• War
• War Crimes
• War Crimes Tribunals
• Warfare, Rules of
• Washington Consensus
• Weber, Max (1864–1920)
• Welfare State
• Westphalian System
• Women and Development
• World Bank
• World Health Organization
• World Trade Organization
• World War I
• World War II
• Y
• Yalta Conference
• Yugoslavia