Misunderstanding International Relations

Scott Burchill is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University. He is the author of The National Interest in International Relations Theory (2005) and co-author and editor of Theories of International Relations (2013).

1. Introduction.- 2. Critical Thinking Part One: The Limits of the Expressible.- 3. Critical Thinking Part Two: Escaping the Zeitgeist and Building an Intellectual Self-defence.- 4. Israel-Palestine Part One: Do States Have a "Right to Exist"?.- 5. Israel-Palestine Part Two: Australian Foreign Policy and the Israel-Palestine Conflict—Avoiding the Colonialist Narrative.- 6. Is There a Deep State?.- 7. United States Foreign Policy: Radical Islam and the West.- 8. The Vietnam War: Morality and History.- 9. Class Power in the United States and Australia.