World Politics: Rationalism and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780333803608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 195 str.

Ralph Pettman

Opis

This book provides an overview of the entire discipline of world affairs in a way that makes immediate sense, i.e. systematic, cogent and comprehensive. It is also a critique of the limits that rationalism sets on how we know world affairs, showing how we might transcend these limits by augmenting rationalist research with non-rationalist techniques. It should appeal to anyone interest in why analysts so often seem to explain world affairs inaccurately and misunderstand what these affairs mean.

Spis treści

Preface Introduction PART I: WORLD AFFAIRS IN PERSPECTIVE The Politico-cultural Context The Politico-social Dimension The Politico-economic Dimension The Politico-strategic Dimension PART II: WORLD AFFAIRS UP CLOSE The Modernist Project Individualism, Nationalism, Collectivism Liberalism, Mercantilism, Market Universalism and Marxism Realism, Internationalism, Globalism PART III: TAKING PART IN WORLD AFFAIRS Mind-making Self-making Market-making State-making Conclusion Notes References Index

O autorze

RALPH PETTMAN is the Foundation Professor of International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His publications include Biopolitics and International Values, State and Class: A Sociology of International Affairs and International Politics, Balance of Power, Balance of Productivity, Balance of Ideologies.