The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of international relations. Arguably the most impressive collection of international relations scholars ever brought together within one volume, the Handbook debates the nature of the field itself, critically engages with the major theories, surveys a wide spectrum of methods, addresses the relationship between scholarship and policy making, and examines the field's relation with cognate disciplines. The Handbook takes as its central themes the interaction between empirical and normative inquiry that permeates all theorizing in the field and the way in which contending approaches have shaped one another. In doing so, the Handbook provides an authoritative and critical introduction to the subject and establishes a sense of the field as a dynamic realm of argument and inquiry. The Oxford Handbook of International Relations will be essential reading for all of those interested in the advanced study of global politics and international affairs.

牛津国际关系手册》提供了迄今为止对国际关系领域最权威和最全面的概述。这本手册可以说是有史以来最令人印象深刻的国际关系学者的集合，它辩论了这个领域本身的性质，批判性地参与了主要的理论，调查了广泛的方法，解决了学术和政策制定之间的关系，并研究了这个领域与同族学科的关系。该手册将贯穿该领域所有理论化的经验性和规范性调查之间的互动作为其中心主题，并将竞争性方法相互形成的方式作为其中心主题。在这样做的过程中，该手册提供了对该主题的权威性和批判性介绍，并建立了该领域作为一个动态的争论和调查领域的意识。牛津国际关系手册》将成为所有对全球政治和国际事务高级研究感兴趣的人的必读书目。