Hegemony and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780415575706 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Bruce Russett

Opis

This book brings together a collection of leading IR scholar Bruce Russett's work to explore American hegemony from during the Cold War to the 21st Century, and to ask whether this is sustainable for a democratic state. It features new and unpublished material, as well as classic essays making this a must-have collection.

Spis treści

1. A Democratic Hegemon?  2. Democracy, War, and Expansion through Historical Lenses  3. Dimensions of Resource Vulnerability: Some Elements of Rigor in Concept and Policy Analysis  4. U.S. Hegemony: Gone or Merely Diminished, and How Does it Matter?  5. The Real Decline in Nuclear Hegemony  6. The Future as Arbiter of Theoretical Controversies: The Scientific Study of Politics and Predictions with James Lee Ray  7. Courting Disaster: NATO vs. Russia and China with Allan C. Stam  8. A Neo-Kantian Perspective: Democracy, Interdependence and International Organizations in Building Security Communities  9. Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations Promote Peace with Jon Pevehouse  10. Security Council Expansion: Can’t and Shouldn’t  11. Liberalism  12. No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II  13. Democracy, Hegemony, and Collective Action

O autorze

Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of International Politics at Yale, and edited the Journal of Conflict Resolution from 1972 to 2009. His book with John Oneal, Triangulating Peace, won the International Studies Association prize for Best Book of the Decade. This is his 27^th book.