International Relations Theory And The Consequences Of Unipolarity

Author : G. John Ikenberry,Michael Mastanduno,William C. Wohlforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139501644

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International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity by G. John Ikenberry,Michael Mastanduno,William C. Wohlforth Pdf

The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experiences between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, when five or more powerful states dominated international relations, and the latter twentieth century, when two superpowers did so. Building on a highly successful special issue of the leading journal World Politics, this book seeks to determine whether what we think we know about power and patterns of state behaviour applies to the current 'unipolar' setting and, if not, how core theoretical propositions about interstate interactions need to be revised.

Author : Gilford John Ikenberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : International relations
ISBN : OCLC:319491050

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International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity by Gilford John Ikenberry Pdf

Author : G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : 1107222338

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International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity by G. John Ikenberry Pdf

Discusses the concept of unipolarity and the political implications of US primacy for the patterns of international politics.

Author : Nuno P. Monteiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107061804

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Theory of Unipolar Politics by Nuno P. Monteiro Pdf

Theory of Unipolar Politics studies the durability and peacefulness of the post-Cold War international system.

Author : Birthe Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136835391

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Unipolarity and World Politics by Birthe Hansen Pdf

This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order. Unipolarity is usually described either as a ‘brief moment’ or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world politics. Two issues have been crucial since the end of the Cold War: How to theorize the distinctiveness and exceptional character of a unipolar international system? And what is it like to conduct state business in a unipolar world? Until now, a comprehensive model for unipolarity has been lacking. This volume provides a theoretical framework for analysis of the current world order and identifies the patterns of outcomes and systematic variations to be expected. Terrorism and attempts by small states to achieve a nuclear capability are not new phenomena or exclusive to the current world order, but in the case of unipolarity these have become attached to the fear of marginalization and the struggle against a powerful centre without the possibility of allying with an alternative superpower. Supplying a coherent theoretical model for unipolarity, which can provide explanations of trends and patterns in the turbulent post-Cold War era, this book will be of interest to students of IR theory, international security and foreign policy.

Author : Birthe Hansen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312215215

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Unipolarity and the Middle East by Birthe Hansen Pdf

The end of the Cold War profoundly affected Middle Eastern politics. In "Unipolarity and the Middle East," a neorealist model for unipolarity is put forward in order to explain the effects of the end of the Cold War as well as the subsequent international dynamics. The new international dynamics are analyzed as "unipolar" and the theoretical model conceptualizes these dynamics and their implications for international politics. The model is applied to Middle Eastern politics from 1989 to 1996, examining the series of international political events which took place during this period. Besides launching the first model of unipolarity, the book thus provides both a survey and an explanation of the changes in the Middle East since 1989, and the emergence of the new, unipolar world order.

Author : Øystein Tunsjø
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231546904

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The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics by Øystein Tunsjø Pdf

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back to bipolarity—a system in which no third power can challenge the top two. The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics surveys the new era of superpowers to argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century. Tunsjø expands Kenneth N. Waltz’s structural-realist theory to examine the new bipolarity within the context of geopolitics, which he calls “geostructural realism.” He considers how a new bipolar system will affect balancing and stability in U.S.-China relations, predicting that the new bipolarity will not be as prone to arms races as the previous era’s; that the risk of limited war between the two superpowers is likely to be higher in the coming bipolarity, especially since the two powers are primarily rivals at sea rather than on land; and that the superpowers are likely to be preoccupied with rivalry and conflict in East Asia instead of globally. Tunsjø presents a major challenge to how international relations understands superpowers in the twenty-first century.

Author : Giulio M. Gallarotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139489942

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Cosmopolitan Power in International Relations by Giulio M. Gallarotti Pdf

How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this vision, nations require the muscle and strategies to compel compliance and achieve their full power potential. But in fact, changes in world politics have increasingly encouraged national leaders to complement traditional power resources with more enlightened strategies oriented around the use of soft power resources. The resources to compel compliance have to be increasingly integrated with the resources to cultivate compliance. Only through this integration of hard and soft power can nations truly achieve their greatest strength in modern world politics, and this realization carries important implications for competing paradigms of international relations. The idea of power optimization can only be delivered through the integration of the three leading paradigms of international relations: Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism.

Author : Goedele De Keersmaeker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319426525

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Polarity, Balance of Power and International Relations Theory by Goedele De Keersmaeker Pdf

This book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory. Since the end of the Cold War, until at least the end of 2010, there has been a wide consensus shared by American academics, political commentators and policy makers: the world was unipolar and would remain so for some time. By contrast, outside the US, a multipolar interpretation prevailed. This volume explores this contradiction and questions the Neorealist claim that polarity is the central structuring element of the international system. Here, the author analyses different historic eras through a polarity lens, compares the way polarity is used in the French and US public discourses, and through careful examination, reaches the conclusion that polarity terminology as a theoretical concept is highly influenced by the Cold War context in which it emerged. This volume is an important resource for students and researchers with a critical approach to Neorealism, and to those interested in the defining shifts the world went through during the last twenty five years.

Author : Richard Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521697603

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The Balance of Power in International Relations by Richard Little Pdf

The balance of power has been a central concept in the theory and practice of international relations for the past five hundred years. It has also played a key role in some of the most important attempts to develop a theory of international politics in the contemporary study of international relations. In this 2007 book, Richard Little establishes a framework that treats the balance of power as a metaphor, a myth and a model. He then uses this framework to reassess four major texts that use the balance of power to promote a theoretical understanding of international relations: Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations (1948), Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society (1977), Kenneth N. Waltz's Theory of International Politics (1979) and John J. Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001). These reassessments allow the author to develop a more comprehensive model of the balance of power.

Author : Ofer Israeli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216103936

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International Relations Theory of War by Ofer Israeli Pdf

Covering 1816–2016, this book deals extensively with the international system as well as the territorial outcomes of several key wars that were waged during that time period, providing an instructive lesson in diplomatic history and international relations among global powers. Based on an in-depth review of the leading theories in the field of international relations, International Relations Theory of War explains an innovative theory on the international system, developed by the author, that he applies comprehensively to a large number of case studies. The book argues that there is a unipolar system that represents a kind of innovation relative to other systemic theories. It further posits that unipolar systems will be less stable than bipolar systems and more stable than multipolar systems, providing new insights relative to other theories that argue that unipolar systems are the most stable ones. The first chapter is devoted to explaining the manner of action of the two dependent variables—systemic international outcome and intra-systemic international outcome. The second chapter presents the international relations theory of war and its key assumptions. The third chapter precisely defines the distribution of power in the system. The fourth chapter examines the theory's two key phenomena. The fifth and last chapter presents the book's conclusions by examining the theoretical assumptions of the international relations theory of war.

Author : Robert S. Ross,Øystein Tunsjø
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501712760

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Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China by Robert S. Ross,Øystein Tunsjø Pdf

Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional balance of power has fueled escalating tensions in East Asia and suggest that adjustment challenges are exacerbated by the politics of policymaking. International and domestic pressures on policymaking are reflected in maritime territorial disputes and in the broader range of regional security issues created by the rise of China.Adjusting to power shifts and managing a new regional order in the face of inevitable domestic pressure, including nationalism, is a challenging process. Both the United States and China have had to adjust to China's expanded capabilities. China has sought an expanded influence in maritime East Asia; the United States has responded by consolidating its alliances and expanding its naval presence in East Asia. The region's smaller countries have also adjusted to the rise of China. They have sought greater cooperation with China, even as they try to sustain cooperation with the United States. As China continues to rise and challenge the regional security order, the contributors consider whether the region is destined to experience increased conflict and confrontation.ContributorsIan Bowers, Norwegian Defence University College and Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Daniel W. Drezner, Tufts University, Brookings Institution, and Washington Post Taylor M. Fravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bjørn Elias Mikalsen Grønning, Norwegian Defence University College and Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University and Chairman, Presidential Committee on Northeast Asia Cooperation Initiative, Republic of Korea James Reilly, University of Sydney Robert S. Ross, Boston College and Harvard University Randall L. Schweller, The Ohio State University ystein Tunsjø, Norwegian Defence University College and the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Wang Dong, Peking University

Author : Nina Græger,Bertel Heurlin,Ole Wæver,Anders Wivel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031055058

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Polarity in International Relations by Nina Græger,Bertel Heurlin,Ole Wæver,Anders Wivel Pdf

This book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future. Despite a comprehensive debate on a global power shift, often discussed in terms of the decline of the United States, the crisis in the liberal international order, and the rise of China, IR ́s main concept of power, ‘polarity’, remains undertheorized and understudied. The great powers and their importance for dynamics and processes in the international system are central to current debates on international order, but these debates too often suffer from a combination of politicized empirical analysis and reliance on old theoretical debates and conceptualizations, typically originating in the Cold War security environment. In order to meet these challenges, this book updates, conceptualizes, applies and critically debates the concepts of unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity and non-polarity in order to understand the current world order.

Author : T. Mowle,D. Sacko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230603073

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The Unipolar World by T. Mowle,D. Sacko Pdf

This is the first book-length treatment of international politics in a unipolar world that adopts a structural realist perspective. It applies Waltz's microeconomic analogy to a market with a price leader. It concludes that unipolarity is sustainable as long as the unipole distributes rewards to other states.

Author : Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521871365

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A Cultural Theory of International Relations by Richard Ned Lebow Pdf

An original theory of politics and international relations based on ancient Greek ideas of human motivation.