Henrik Bliddal is the Director of the Science and Technology Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, Belgium. Casper Sylvest is an associate professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark. Peter Wilson is a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• 1. Introduction, Henrik Bliddal, Casper Sylvest and Peter Wilson 2. ‘A Pillar of Air? Norman Angell and The Great Illusion’, Torbjørn L. Knutsen 3. ‘A Democratic Critique of the State: G. Lowes Dickinson’s The European Anarchy’, Jeannie Morefield 4. ‘Attacking Hitler in England: Patriarchy, Class and War in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas’, Peter Wilson 5. ‘Power, Morality and the Remaking of International Order: E. H. Carr’s The Twenty Years’ Crisis’, Peter Wilson 6. ‘A New Politics for a New Global Age: David Mitrany’s A Working Peace System’, Lucian M. Ashworth 7. ‘Politics Between and Beyond Nations: Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations’, Nicolas Guilhot 8. ‘The Enduring Logic of the Three Images: Kenneth Waltz’s Man, The State, and War’, Brian C. Schmidt 9. ‘The Conditions and Consequences of Globality: John Herz’s International Politics in the Atomic Age’, Casper Sylvest 10. ‘Realism Meets Historical Sociology: Raymond Aron’s Peace and War', Bryan-Paul Frost 11. ‘Towards a Liberal Realism: Inis Claude’s Power and International Relations’, J. Samuel Barkin 12. ‘The Joke’s on You: International Relations and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove’, Henrik Bliddal 13. ‘The Value of Uncertain Advice: Robert Jervis’s Perception and Misperception’, Shiping Tang 14. ‘Testing the Institutional Fabric of World Politics: Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society’, Andrew Hurrell 15. ‘A Circumspect Revival of Liberalism: Keohane and Nye’s Power and Interdependence’, Thomas C. Walker 16. ‘The Politics of International Theory: Reading Waltz 1979 as a Classic’, Anders Wivel 17. ‘The Cosmopolitan Turn: Beyond Realism and Statism in Charles Beitz’s Political Theory and International Relations’, William Smith 18. ‘Obligations Beyond the State: Andrew Linklater’s Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations’, Richard Devetak and Juliette Gout 19. ‘The Making of IR/IPE: Robert Cox’s Production, Power and World Order', Randall Germain 20. ‘Gendering Geopolitics, Gendering IR: Cynthia Enloe’s Bananas, Beaches and Bases’, Alexandra Hyde and Marsha Henry 21. ‘The Limits of International Relations: R. B. J. Walker’s Inside/outside: International Relations as Political Theory’, Tom Lundborg and Nick Vaughan-Williams 22. ‘The State has a Mind: Alexander Wendt’s Social Theory of International Relations’, Alan Chong 23. ‘A Modest Realist in a Tragic World: John Mearsheimer’s The Tragedy of Great Power Politics’, Brian C. Schmidt 24. ‘Interrogating the Subject: Errol Morris’s The Fog of War’, Casper Sylvest 25. ‘Restraint in the Global Polity, the Remix: Daniel Deudney’s Bounding Power’, Brent J. Steele 26. Conclusion, Henrik Bliddal, Casper Sylvest and Peter Wilson

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