International Relations in a Changing Global System: Toward a Theory of the World Polity, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780367319311 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Seyom Brown

Opis

The first edition of this successful text helped to define a new approach to the study of international relations, one suited to the realities of the post?cold war world. It broke the confines of the dominant ?realist? paradigm to offer an intelligible theoretical discourse on how the world works.In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, Prof

Spis treści

Introduction - The need for a new theory of the world polity. Part 1 Analytical framework: the anarchic structure of the nation-state system; the phenomenon of international cooperation; the prominence of war; vast economic disparities among countries; the mismatch between polity and ecology; human rights versus state rights; the incongruity of society and governance in the nation-state system. Part 2 Toward normative theory: the normative framework; implications for public policy and institutional development

O autorze

Seyom Brown is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University. He is the author of New Forces, Old Forces and the Future of World Politics; The Causes and Prevention of War; and many other books and articles in international relations and foreign policy.