War, peace, survival : global politics and conceptual synthesis
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Bibliographic Information
War, peace, survival : global politics and conceptual synthesis
Westview Press, c1990
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 25 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-284) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this contribution to international relations theory, the author presents four levels of analysis, or "images" - the individual, the state, the international, and the global system - and shows how seven basic dynamic processes operate on and across these levels to effect change. Emphasizing that today's economic and environmental issues tend less and less to respect national boundaries, he argues that we must begin to think of the world on the global level, as an integrated, ecological system, and not just as nations interacting as individual units. Drawing heavily on history, economics, demography, psychology, and systems theory, the book is intended as a corrective to the modern habit of abstracting theory from the facts of the real world.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The contemporary world and its problems. Part 2 First image - the individual: the individual in primal environments. Part 3 second image - the state: the growth and development of states
- state decisionmaking
- third image - states in interaction. Part 4 Third image - the international system: economics and war as integrating functions
- the international configuration
- deterrence, crisis and war. Part 5 Fourth image - the global system: the global system
- global competition and violence
- global survival.
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