International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order: Beyond International Relations Theory?

ISBN-13: 9780415095846 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 252 str.

N. J. Rengger

Opis

At the turn of the millennium, and now after the fall of the Berlin wall, the best way to map the trajectories of contemporary international relations is hotly contested. Is the world more or less ordered than during the Cold War? Are we on the way to a neo-liberal era of free markets and global governance, or in danger of collapsing into a new Middle Ages? Are we on the verge of a new world order or are we slipping back into an old one? These issues are amongst those that have dominated international relations theory in the late 1980s and 1990s. But they have their roots in older questions both about the appropriate ways to study international relations and about the general frameworks and normative assumptions generated by various different methodological approaches.

Spis treści

Introduction: International Relations theory and the problem of order PART I Managing order? 1 Balance 2 Society 3 Institutions PART II Ending order? 4 Emancipation 5 Limits Epilogue: ordering ends?

O autorze

N.J. Rengger is Reader in Political Theory and International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Political Theory, Modernity and Postmodernity; Dilemmas of World Politics; and Retreat from the Modern.