Contexts of international politics
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Contexts of international politics
（Cambridge studies in international relations, 36）
Cambridge University Press, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 42 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 272-288
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book Gary Goertz examines how states interact with their environment and contexts, which are important in understanding international politics. He presents a philosophical, methodological and empirical discussion of three important contexts which affect decision makers: history, system structure, and international norms. The effects of these contexts are explored by viewing context in turn as cause, as changing meaning, and as a barrier. The book engages with the literature on structural realism and international regimes, and uses rational actor and diffusion models as theoretical references. A number of concrete studies are provided using these contextual tools, including oil nationalisation, USSR-East European relations, enduring rivalries, and decolonisation. These empirical examples illustrate the fruitfulness of the contextual approach to international politics.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Modes of context
- 3. Context as changing meaning
- 4. Contextual indicators
- 5. Rational actor and diffusion models
- 6. Barrier models of context
- 7. Oil nationalization, 1918-80
- 8. Eastern Europe, 1945-89
- 9. Historical contexts
- 10. Enduring rivalries
- 11. The context of international norms
- 12. The norm of decolonization
- 13. Postface: interacting contexts and explaining contexts.
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