Complex deterrence : strategy in the global age

As the costs of a preemptive foreign policy in Iraq have become clear, strategies such as containment and deterrence have been gaining currency among policy makers. This comprehensive book offers an agenda for the contemporary practice of deterrence--especially as it applies to nuclear weapons--in an increasingly heterogeneous global and political setting. Moving beyond the precepts of traditio…

Western political thought in dialogue with Asia

Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia is a unique collection of essays that examines the exchange of political ideas between Western Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. The contributors to the volume call for globalizing the scope of research and teaching in the history of political thought.

Theories of international relations : transition vs. persistence

"This book is a synthetic historiography of present-day international relations theory. It is a critical analysis of the continuing diversity and complexity of enduring themes through a sustained focus on the analysis of the empirical evidence accumulated by social scientists. Special attention is given to key historical changes in theoretical approaches over the past half-century with full rec…

The balance of power in world history

The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been systemically and comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance.

Ideology and international relations in the modern world

Cassels traces the part played by ideology in in ternational relations over the past two centuries. Incorporating political, social, cultural and economic factors he establishes links between ideas and action, ideology and political behaviour.

Explaining postmodernism : skepticism and socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century. Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellec…

Culture and international relations : narratives, natives, and tourists

This book contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture.

Classical theory in international relations

An edited volume of essays demonstrating the importance of classical thinkers in international relations.

Diplomacy between the wars : five diplomats and the shaping of the modern world

Diplomacy Between the Wars is a detailed inside story of diplomacy seen through the careers of five remarkable career diplomatists. Here is a unique and authentic picture of practical diplomacy and its effect during periods of international crisis which shaped the twentieth century. These were not the statesmen and politicians who dominated the international stage but practical diplomats with l…

Capitalism: its origins and evolution as a system of governance

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781461418788

Collation

672 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Call Number

[POL-LIB-170]