International relations and human rights / Sudhir Kumar.

1. Theory of international relations
2. Political theory and international relations
3. Human rights and national security: The strategic correlation
4. International Human rights: A regime analysis
5. Effects of international human rights pressure on state behaviour
6. Furthering human rights and democracy across the globe
7. The transatlantic relationship and the future global governance
8. Human rights, democracy and development
9. The human rights peace
10. Democracy, conflict and human security policy
11. The new sovereignty in international relations
12. International relations, policy and treaties.

For much of the last century, 'international relations' and political theory' inhabited separate, clearly demarcated, intellectual spaces. In the academic discourse of international relations, 'theory' referred to linked sets of cause-and-effect propositions that purported to explain patterns of behaviour discernible in the international system, on the model of the natural sciences and closer to home, economics. Non-explanatory theory that is, theory that addressed normative issues or interpreted the underlying nature of the international order was undervalued.