Great Powers And International Hierarchy

Author : Daniel McCormack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319939766

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Great Powers and International Hierarchy by Daniel McCormack Pdf

Hierarchical relationships—rules that structure both international and domestic politics—are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements both respond to domestic politics within weak states and structure the specific forms that hierarchy takes. Second, it deduces three sets of hypotheses about hierarchy maintenance, construction, and collapse during the post-war era. By offering a coherent theoretical model of hierarchical politics within weaker states, the author is able to answer a number of important questions, including: Why does the United States often ally with autocratic states even though its most enduring relationships are with democracies? Why do autocratic hierarchical relationships require interstate coercion? Why do some hierarchies end violently and others peacefully? Why does hierarchical competition sometimes lead to interstate conflict and sometimes to civil conflict?

Author : Iver B. Neumann
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : International relations.
ISBN : 0312080905

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Regional Great Powers in International Politics by Iver B. Neumann Pdf

This book illuminates the complex interplay between specifically regional concerns and the wider international context which together define the regional hierarchy of states. On top of that hierarchy is the regional great power. Building on seven case-studies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Israel, Poland, South Africa and Vietnam, the authors demonstrate how this status cannot be attained simply by building up a huge military or economic power base. The attitudes and ambitions of the aspiring state, its regional neighbours and the great powers with global interests and reach must all be taken into consideration. The sheer number of factors which sustain regional great powerhood makes that status a precarious one. Although the end of the cold war may open up new regional space for regional great powers to exploit and so make them more important in providing for regional order, the autonomy of regions may still easily be overestimated.

Author : Bear F. Braumoeller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139560443

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The Great Powers and the International System by Bear F. Braumoeller Pdf

Do great leaders make history? Or are they compelled to act by historical circumstance? This debate has remained unresolved since Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx framed it in the mid-nineteenth century, yet implicit answers inform our policies and our views of history. In this book, Professor Bear F. Braumoeller argues persuasively that both perspectives are correct: leaders shape the main material and ideological forces of history that subsequently constrain and compel them. His studies of the Congress of Vienna, the interwar period, and the end of the Cold War illustrate this dynamic, and the data he marshals provide systematic evidence that leaders both shape and are constrained by the structure of the international system.

Author : Gabriele Abbondanza,Thomas Stow Wilkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811603709

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Awkward Powers: Escaping Traditional Great and Middle Power Theory by Gabriele Abbondanza,Thomas Stow Wilkins Pdf

This book introduces the editors’ new concept of “Awkward Powers”. By undertaking a critical re-examination of the state of International Relations theorising on the changing nature of the global power hierarchy, it draws attention to a number of countries that fit awkwardly into existing but outdated categories such as “great power” and “middle power”. It argues that conceptual categories pertaining to the apex of the international hierarchy have become increasingly unsatisfactory, and that new approaches focusing on such “Awkward Powers” can both rectify shortcomings on power theorising whilst shining a much-needed theoretical spotlight on significant but understudied states. The book’s contributors examine a broad range of empirical case studies, including both established and rising powers across a global scale to illustrate our conceptual claims. Through such a novel process, we argue that a better appreciation of the de facto international power hierarchy in the 21st century can be achieved.

Author : David A. Lake
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801457692

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Hierarchy in International Relations by David A. Lake Pdf

International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are still pervasive today. Revisiting the concepts of authority and sovereignty, Lake offers a novel view of international relations in which states form social contracts that bind both dominant and subordinate members. The resulting hierarchies have significant effects on the foreign policies of states as well as patterns of international conflict and cooperation. Focusing largely on U.S.-led hierarchies in the contemporary world, Lake provides a compelling account of the origins, functions, and limits of political order in the modern international system. The book is a model of clarity in theory, research design, and the use of evidence. Motivated by concerns about the declining international legitimacy of the United States following the Iraq War, Hierarchy in International Relations offers a powerful analytic perspective that has important implications for understanding America's position in the world in the years ahead.

Author : Steven L. Spiegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000008238382

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Dominance and Diversity by Steven L. Spiegel Pdf

Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521378613

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The Hierarchy of States by Ian Clark Pdf

The hierarchy of states presents Ian Clark's Reform and resistance in the international order, a well-established text on international relations first published in 1980, in a completely revised form. Combining a detailed examination of theory with a full account of historical developments, Dr Clark analyses the nature of international order - the hierarchical state system - and its potential for reform. The theory of international order is explored tracing two traditions of thought epitomised in the writings of Kant and Rousseau, whilst in a historical survey Dr Clark covers the main attempts to implement international order since 1815 and includes such aspects as concert diplomacy, alliance systems, international organisations as well as such informal understandings as nuclear deterrence, crisis management and spheres of influence. This revised edition contains two new chapters - one on international/world order issues and the other on 'macro' changes between 1815 and 1990. Dr Clark has updated his discussion on the course of superpower relations and most of the material on the post-1945 period is introduced in this edition for the first time.

Author : Alexander D Barder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317590088

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Empire Within by Alexander D Barder Pdf

This book explores the reverberating impacts between historical and contemporary imperial laboratories and their metropoles through three case studies concerning violence, surveillance and political economy. The invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 forced the United States to experiment and innovate in considerable ways. Faced with growing insurgencies that called into question its entire mission, the occupation authorities engaged in a series of tactical and technological innovations that changed the way it combated insurgents and managed local populations. The book presents new material to develop the argument that imperial and colonial contexts function as a laboratory in which techniques of violence, population control and economic principles are developed which are subsequently introduced into the domestic society of the imperial state. The text challenges the widely taken for granted notion that the diffusion of norms and techniques is a one-way street from the imperial metropole to the dependent or weak periphery. This work will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, critical security studies and international relations theory.

Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393076240

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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition) by John J. Mearsheimer Pdf

"A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.

Author : Alexander Cooley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801466397

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Logics of Hierarchy by Alexander Cooley Pdf

Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its various elements along the lines of administrative functions, whereas the M-form governs its periphery according to geography and territory. In Logics of Hierarchy, Alexander Cooley applies this model to political hierarchies across different cultures, geographical settings, and historical eras to explain a variety of seemingly disparate processes: state formation, imperial governance, and territorial occupation. Cooley illustrates the power of this formal distinction with detailed accounts of the experiences of Central Asian republics in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, and compares them to developments in the former Yugoslavia, the governance of modern European empires, Korea during and after Japanese occupation, and the recent U.S. occupation of Iraq. In applying this model, Logics of Hierarchy reveals the varying organizational ability of powerful states to promote institutional transformation in their political peripheries and the consequences of these formations in determining pathways of postimperial extrication and state-building. Its focus on the common organizational problems of hierarchical polities challenges much of the received wisdom about imperialism and postimperialism.

Author : Iver B. Neumann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349126613

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Regional Great Powers in International Politics by Iver B. Neumann Pdf

Illuminates the interplay between regional concerns and the international context, which together define the hierarchy of states. Building on case studies, this book demonstrates that this status cannot be attained solely by building a military or economic power base.

Author : Frank Herbert Simonds,Brooks Emeny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258426374

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The Great Powers in World Politics by Frank Herbert Simonds,Brooks Emeny Pdf

Author : Ayşe Zarakol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108416634

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Hierarchies in World Politics by Ayşe Zarakol Pdf

This book showcases the best new international relations research on hierarchy and moves the discipline forward in this new direction.

Author : S. Kaufman,R. Little,W. Wohlforth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230591684

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Balance of Power in World History by S. Kaufman,R. Little,W. Wohlforth Pdf

The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of balancing and balancing failure in pre-modern and non-European international systems.

Author : G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400880843

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After Victory by G. John Ikenberry Pdf

The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the world wars in 1919 and 1945. But what do states that win wars do with their newfound power, and how do they use it to build order? In After Victory, John Ikenberry examines postwar settlements in modern history, arguing that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power. He explains that only with the spread of democracy in the twentieth century and the innovative use of international institutions—both linked to the emergence of the United States as a world power—has order been created that goes beyond balance of power politics to exhibit "constitutional" characteristics. Blending comparative politics with international relations, and history with theory, After Victory will be of interest to anyone concerned with the organization of world order, the role of institutions in world politics, and the lessons of past postwar settlements for today.