Cosmopolitan power in international relations : a synthesis of realism, neoliberalism, and constructivism
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Cosmopolitan power in international relations : a synthesis of realism, neoliberalism, and constructivism
Cambridge University Press, 2010
- : hardback
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
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  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 287-307
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this vision, nations require the muscle and strategies to compel compliance and achieve their full power potential. But in fact, changes in world politics have increasingly encouraged national leaders to complement traditional power resources with more enlightened strategies oriented around the use of soft power resources. The resources to compel compliance have to be increasingly integrated with the resources to cultivate compliance. Only through this integration of hard and soft power can nations truly achieve their greatest strength in modern world politics, and this realization carries important implications for competing paradigms of international relations. The idea of power optimization can only be delivered through the integration of the three leading paradigms of international relations: Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The theory of cosmopolitan power
- 2. Crucial-case textual analysis of the founding fathers of Realism: the classical inspirations
- 3. Crucial-case textual analysis of the founding fathers of Realism: the modern inspirations
- 4. Case studies of soft empowerment: free trade, the classical gold standard, and dollarization
- 5. Case study of hard disempowerment: US foreign policy and the Bush doctrine
- 6. Case study of soft empowerment: the power of modern American culture
- 7. Conclusions.
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