Theory and reality of international politics

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Theory and reality of international politics

Hans Mouritzen

Ashgate, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The major units in international politics chiefly interact with the states in their geographical neighbourhood, even though certain units have a wider action space than others. The main thesis of this book is that nation-states' mutual non-mobility constitutes a fundamental property of international politics, on a par with its much debated anarchy (the absence of an international government). This book presents the non-mobility argument. It surveys the international relations literature, critically examines the systematic theory of Kenneth Waltz, the reductionist approaches of "comparative foreign policy" and small state theory and it introduces and illustrates the notion of environment polarity instead of the more usual systematic polarity. Three different theories rooted in the salient environment are formulated and tested: one about the tension between strong and weak; the second about the balance of power between the strong and the bandwagoning of the weak; and thirdly the "twin distance" model, which explains the five Nordic countries' respective Baltic engagements on the basis of their geographical distances from the Soviet Union/Russia and from the Baltic Sea region. From these theories the book concludes that the salient environment should be ascribed primacy in relation to internal explanatory factors, and two illustrations of internal and external interplay are offered. Finally the book investigates theoretically and empirically the precise nature of this state-centrism in relation to international government organizations and the EU.

目次

  • Part 1 The argument: levels of explanation
  • international politics - anarchy and states' non-mobility
  • spatial heterogeneity vs. temporal homogeneity
  • why state the obvious?
  • modifications and counter-modifications. Part 2 IR theory - a critical evaluation: literature on explanatory levels
  • "comparative foreign policy" and small state research
  • the theory of Kenneth Waltz
  • from bipolarity to post-bipolarity. Part 3 The preferred mode of explanation - a further presentation: explanatory logic and level
  • salient environment and polarity
  • environment polarities - illustrations
  • European heterogeneities 1989-94 - from the Hague to Kiev. Part 4 Testing theories: tension between the strong and the strategy of the weak
  • balancing vs. bandwagoning - testing balance-of-power theory
  • Nordic engagements vis-a-vis the Baltic countries - a geopolitical approach. Part 5 Salient environment and domestic explanatory factors - the nature of the interplay: levels of explanation - complementarism vs. supplementarism
  • the house on fire
  • external danger/internal cohesion-centralization
  • non-mobility revisited
  • control, relax, guide
  • inertia and foreign policy lessons
  • the role of internal factors in theory-building. Part 6 Two illustrations of interplay: learning within geopolitical parameters - alliance policy from Helsinki to Warsaw
  • European integration and national bandwagoning 1989-94 - facing a pole of attraction. Part 7 The role of international organizations: IGOs - the control-relax model reapplied
  • IGOs as state instruments
  • control-relax and theories of European integration. Part 8 Theory and reality of international politics: conclusions
  • critical rationalism and its realism
  • complementarism vs. supplementarism
  • IR schools - why bother?.

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