Contents -- The Essence of Millennial Reflections on International Studies -- Realism -- Realism Realism, the Real World, and the Academy -- Modern Realist Theory and the Study of International Politics in the Twenty-first Century -- Realism and the Study of Peace and War -- Performance and Perils of Realism in the Study of International Politics -- Realism and the Democratic Peace: The Primacy of State Security in New Democracies -- Systemism and International Relations: Toward a Reassessment of Realism -- Institutionalism -- Progress in International Relations: Beyond Paradigms in the Study of Institutions -- Institutional Theory in International Relations -- Transnational Relations, Interdependence, and Globalization -- Are Institutions Intervening Variables or Basic Causal Forces? Causal Clusters versus Causal Chains in International Society -- Alternative and Critical Perspectives -- Alternative and Critical Perspectives -- Universality in International Studies: A Historicist Approach -- The Continuing Story of Another Death Foretold: Radical Theory and the New International Relations -- How We Learned to Escape Physics Envy and to Love Pluralism and Complexity -- En Route to Knowledge: Is There a "Third Path" (in the Third Debate)? -- Alternative, Critical, Political -- The Globalization of Globalization -- Feminist Theory and Gender Perspectives -- The Fish and the Turtle: Multiple Worlds as Method -- On the Cut(ting) Edge -- Critical Paradigms in International Studies: Bringing It All Back Home? -- "Progress" as Feminist International Relations -- Feminist Theory and Gender Studies: Reflections for the Millennium -- Feminism and/in International Relations: An Exhausted Conversation? or Feminists Doing International Relations: The Cut(ting) Edge of Contemporary Critical Theory and Practice? -- Methodology.

Formal Methods in International Relations -- Cumulation, Synthesis, and Research Design for the Post - Fourth Wave -- Accomplishments and Limitations of a Game-Theoretic Approach to International Relations -- Game Theory in Practice: Problems and Prospects in Applying It to International Relations -- Reflections on Quantitative International Politics -- Reflections on Millennia, Old and New: The Evolution and Role of Quantitative Approaches to the Study of International Politics -- Quantitative International Politics and Its Critics: Then and Now -- Qualitative Methods in International Relations -- Case Study Methodology in International Studies: From Storytelling to Hypothesis Testing -- Foreign Policy Analysis -- Foreign Policy Analysis Foreign Policy Analysis: Steady Progress and a Half-Empty Glass -- Beliefs and Foreign Policy Analysis in the New Millennium -- Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Analysis: Where We Were, Are, and Should Strive to Be -- Simulation and Experimentation in Foreign Policy Analysis: Some Personal Observations on Problems and Prospects -- International Security, Peace, and War -- Security Theory: Six Paradigms Searching for Security -- Security and Peace: Understanding, Production, and Work Style -- Convergences between International Security Studies and Peace Studies -- Accounting for Interstate War: Progress and Cumulation -- Notes from the Underground: A Tale of Three Perspectives -- International Political Economy -- Reflections on the Field of International Political Economy -- Some Thoughts on International Political Economy in the Context of Public Policy Education -- International Political Economy: From Paradigmatic Debates to Productive Disagreements -- Conclusions: An Assessment of Millennial Reflections on International Studies -- About the Contributors.