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Author : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780029324004
Author : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : OCLC:123754644
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101548028
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
Author : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459747985
Author : R. Little,J. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230503915
Following Bull's structure, it considers key concepts, major institutions and alternative approaches to order, and reasserts the enduring insight of Bull's work, whilst responding to major developments in the theory and practice in international relations.
Author : Richard Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521697603
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 : William R. Torbert
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 080394067X
Presenting a new theory of power, a new practice of management and a new theory of social science, this volume contradicts the following received wisdoms: that `all power corrupts'; that all organizational structure constrains; and that social science is `purer' the more it is divorced from action. Torbert presents a conceptualization of power that generates productivity, justice and inquiry; develops a theory of `liberating structure' through which organizations can generate continual quality improvement; and introduces a new paradigm of engaged social science - `action inquiry'.
Author : T. V. Paul,James J. Wirtz,Michel Fortmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804750172
Since the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, many scholars have argued that the balance of power theory is losing its relevance. This text examines this viewpoint, as well as looking at systematic factors that may hinder or favour the return of balance of power politics.
Author : Randall L. Schweller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400837854
Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of "underbalancing" is a common but woefully underexamined behavior in international politics. Underbalancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond in paltry and imprudent ways. It is a response that directly contradicts the core prediction of structural realism's balance-of-power theory--that states motivated to survive as autonomous entities are coherent actors that, when confronted by dangerous threats, act to restore the disrupted balance by creating alliances or increasing their military capabilities, or, in some cases, a combination of both. Consistent with the new wave of neoclassical realist research, Unanswered Threats offers a theory of underbalancing based on four domestic-level variables--elite consensus, elite cohesion, social cohesion, and regime/government vulnerability--that channel, mediate, and redirect policy responses to external pressures and incentives. The theory yields five causal schemes for underbalancing behavior, which are tested against the cases of interwar Britain and France, France from 1877 to 1913, and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) that pitted tiny Paraguay against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Randall Schweller concludes that those most likely to underbalance are incoherent, fragmented states whose elites are constrained by political considerations.
Author : Michael Sheehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134813155
The balance of power principle has been central to both the study and practice of international politics for over 300 years. It has guided governments in the conduct of foreign policy and provided a structure for explanations of some of the recurring patterns of international relations. This study examines the various meanings given to the balance of power over the centuries and traces the historical evolution of its theory and practice through steadily more complex forms. It describes the balance principle in practice, both as a guiding light of national foreign policies and as a structural explanation of how the international system operates. The reader is provided with an understanding of the various meanings of the balance principle and the key thinkers and politicians who have influenced its development. The text presents the essence of arguments concerning the morality of the principle as a foreign policy guide and its value as a structural explanation of the fundamental reality of international relations.
Author : Max Beloff
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773592384
Author : William R. Torbert
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035242234
Presenting a new theory of power, a new practice of management and a new theory of social science, this volume: * contradicts the received wisdom that all power corrupts' and presents a power that generates productivity, justice and inquiry; the book also shows, through concrete illustrations, how leaders and organizations can develop in order to use, and encourage others to use, such power. * contradicts the received wisdom that all organizational structure constrains and develops a theory of liberating structure' through which organizations can generate continual quality improvement. * contradicts the received wisdom that social science is purer' the more it is divorced from action and introduces a new paradigm of engaged social science - action inquiry'.
Author : Henry Mintzberg
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626563193
Enough of the imbalance that is causing the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right and paralysis in the political center. We require an unprecedented form of radical renewal. In this book Henry Mintzberg offers a new understanding of the root of our current crisis and a strategy for restoring the balance so vital to the survival of our progeny and our planet. With the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe, Western pundits declared that capitalism had triumphed. They were wrong—balance triumphed. A healthy society balances a public sector of respected governments, a private sector of responsible businesses, and a plural sector of robust communities. Communism collapsed under the weight of its overbearing public sector. Now the “liberal democracies” are threatened—socially, politically, even economically—by the unchecked excesses of the private sector. Radical renewal will have to begin in the plural sector, which alone has the inclination and the independence to challenge unacceptable practices and develop better ones. Too many governments have been co-opted by the private sector. And corporate social responsibility can't compensate for the corporate social irresponsibility we see around us “They” won't do it. We shall have to do it, each of us and all of us, not as passive “human resources,” but as resourceful human beings. Tom Paine wrote in 1776, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” He was right then. Can we be right again now? Can we afford not to be?
Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107039940
This is a major study of French foreign and security policy in the era of the Great War. Peter Jackson examines the interplay between contending conceptions of security based on traditional practices of power politics and the new internationalist doctrines that emerged in the late nineteenth century.
Author : S. Kaufman,R. Little,W. Wohlforth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230591684
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.