Assessing the development of the discipline of international relations, the author presents both a summary of the field's significant findings and a critical discussion of its most representative traditions of realism and liberalism. Written between 1960 and 1985, many of these essays have not been previously published in English.

STANLEY HOFFMAN is Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and Chairman of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Preface -- Theories and Theorists -- An American Social Science: International Relations -- Rousseau on War and Peace -- Raymond Aron and the Theory of International Relations -- Hans Morgenthau: The Limits and Influence of "Realism" -- Order and Violence -- Is There an International Order? -- The Future of the International Political System: A Sketch -- International Systems and International Law -- The Problem of Intervention -- Nuclear Worries: France and the United States -- Actors and Interactions -- On the Origins of the Cold War -- Grasping the Bear: Patterns and Puzzles of Soviet International Behavior -- Cries and Whimpers: Thoughts on West European-American Relations in the 1980s -- Domestic Politics and Interdependence -- Sermons and Suggestions -- International Organization and the International System -- Taming the Eagle: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security -- Beyond Terror? -- Reaching for the Most Difficult: Human Rights as a Foreign Policy Goal -- Liberalism and International Affairs -- On the Political Psychology of Peace and War: A Critique and an Agenda -- Conclusion -- The Sound and the Fury: The Social Scientist Versus War in History