A world of polities : essays on global politics
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A world of polities : essays on global politics
Routledge, 2008
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Bibliography: p. [237]-250
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach have made a significant contribution to our contemporary understanding of global politics. This collection contains some of their classic essays and many unpublished articles which have been edited into a coherent and stimulating collection.
Subjects covered include:
Theory and method in global politics
The role of values and the postmodern challenge
The complex roles of actors in global politics
9/11 and its aftermath
The changing nature of war
US unilateralism, hegemony and empire.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Introduction: The Principal Puzzle Part 2: Making the Quest Less Elusive: Theory and Global Politics 1. Between Celebration and Despair
- Constructive Suggestions for Future International Theory (1991) 2. Values and Paradigm Change (1988) 3. Reconstructing Theory in Global Politics: Beyond the Postmodern Challenge (2002) 4. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Global Politics: Promise and Pitfalls (2007) Part 3: The Complex Universe of Actors in Global Politics 5. The Web of World Politics (1976) 6. Italy After Rome: Complexity at the Nexus of the Ancient and Modern Worlds (1996) 7. Islam: The Evolution of a Messianic Movement 8. The Past as Prelude to the Future? Identities and Loyalties in Global Politics (1996) Part 4: Toward a Postinternational World 9. Beyond International Relations to Global Politics: Overlapping Political Space, Shifting Boundaries, and Revised Authority Structures (2007) 10. War and Innocent Victims: The Paradox of Westphalia (2007) 11. Superpower, Hegemony, Empire (2007) 12. Postinternationalism and IR Theory (2007)
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