Great powers and World Order : patterns and prospects

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Great powers and World Order : patterns and prospects

Charles W. Kegley and Gregory A. Raymond

CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE, c2021

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Great Powers and World Order encourages critical thinking about the nature of world order by presenting the historical information and theoretical concepts needed to make projections about the global future. Charles W. Kegley and Gregory Raymond ask students to compare retrospective cases and formulate their own hypotheses about not only the causes of war, but also the consequences of peace settlements. Historical case studies open a window to see what strategies for constructing world order were tried before, why one course of action was chosen over another, and how things turned out. By moving back and forth in each case study between history and theory, rather than treating them as separate topics, the authors hope to situate the assumptions, causal claims, and policy prescriptions of different schools of thought within the temporal domains in which they took root, giving the reader a better sense of why policy makers embraced a particular view of world order instead of an alternative vision.

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Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors PART I: THE VIOLENT ORIGINS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER Chapter 1 Great-Power Struggles for Primacy in the Modern Era The Westphalian Foundations of the Modern State System What Are Great Powers? Regularities in Great-Power Behavior Contending Approaches to World Order Building World Order in the Aftermath of Hegemonic War Key Terms Chapter 2 World War I and the Versailles Settlement The Origins of the First World War The Armistice and Arrangements for a Peace Conference Balance-of-Power Theory and World Order Woodrow Wilson and The Liberal Tradition in World Politics National Self-Interest Confronts Wilsonian Idealism The Versailles Settlement A World in Disarray Key Terms Chapter 3 World War II and the Birth of the Liberal Order The Origins of the Second World War Planning for a Postwar World Order Spheres-of-Influence versus Universalist Models of World Order The Political Economy of World Order A World Divided Key Terms PART II: THE FITFUL EVOLUTION OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER Chapter 4 The Cold War and Its Consequences The Origins of the Cold War The Course of the Cold War The Characteristics of the Cold War The Cold War World Order Beyond the Cold War Key Terms Chapter 5 America's Unipolar Moment American Primacy Primacy and World Order Democratic Peace Theory and American Foreign Policy Rethinking State Sovereignty in an Era of Globalization Anticipatory Self Defense and Preventive War The Twilight of Unipolarity Key Terms Chapter 6 Unraveling the Liberal Order Donald Trump and Conservative Thought on Foreign Policy The Jacksonian Turn in American Foreign Policy Power Without Principle Key Terms PART III: FORGING A NEW WORLD ORDER Chapter 7 The Range of Great-Power Choice Viewing System Transformation in Historical Context Great-Power Options for Shaping World Order Coordinated Consultation and World Order Legitimacy and World Order Key Terms Chapter 8 Rethinking World Order Change and Continuity in Contemporary World Politics Critical Questions for World Order in the Twenty-First Century The Quest for World Order Key Terms Suggested Readings Glossary Notes Index

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