| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages : illustrations (some color)) |
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Governance, security and development, 2945-7823 |
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Governance, security and development. 2945-7823
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| Contents |
Introduction: Understanding Polarity in Theory and History -- Part I Theorizing Polarity -- Polarity Is What Power Does When It Becomes Structure -- Polarity and Threat Perception in Foreign Policy: A Dynamic Balancing Model -- Uneasy Partners: Neorealism and Unipolar World Order -- Combining Polarity and Geopolitics: The Explanatory Power of Geostructural Realism -- Between Polarity and Foreign Policy: Freedom of Manoeuvre Is the Missing Link -- What Future for Small States After Unipolarity? Strategic Opportunities and Challenges in the Post-American World Order -- Critical, Restless, and Relevant: Realism as Normative Thought -- Part II. Polarity and International Security -- Polarity, Non-polarity, and the Risks of A-Polarity -- Unipolarity and Nationalism: The Racialized Legacies of an Anglo-Saxon Unipole -- Managing the Delta of Unipolarity: Post-Cold War Misalignment of American Political Projects and World Order from DPG92 to Trump -- The Nexus of Systemic Power and Identity: Structural Variations of the US-China Great Power Rivalry -- The US Unipolar World Order and China’s Rise -- Polarity and Realignment in East Asia 1945–2020 -- Polarity, Proliferation, and Restraint: A Market-Centric Approach -- Unipolarity and Order in the Arctic -- Europe in the U.S.-Russian Security Dilemma: Is There a Way Out? -- The Discourse on the US/NATO and the EU in Danish Foreign Policy: The Language of Unipolarity? -- Part III. The Future of Polarity and International Order -- A U.S. Strategy of Judicious Retrenchment -- An Emerging World that Defies Historical Analogy --Polarity and International Order: Past and Future |
| Summary |
This book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future. Despite a comprehensive debate on a global power shift, often discussed in terms of the decline of the United States, the crisis in the liberal international order, and the rise of China, IRs main concept of power, polarity, remains undertheorized and understudied. The great powers and their importance for dynamics and processes in the international system are central to current debates on international order, but these debates too often suffer from a combination of politicized empirical analysis and reliance on old theoretical debates and conceptualizations, typically originating in the Cold War security environment. In order to meet these challenges, this book updates, conceptualizes, applies and critically debates the concepts of unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity and non-polarity in order to understand the current world order. Nina Grger is Professor of International Relations and Head of Department at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Bertel Heurlin is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ole Wver is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Anders Wivel is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 12, 2022) |
| Subject |
International relations -- Philosophy.
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International relations.
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international relations.
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International relations -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Græger, Nina, editor.
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Heurlin, Bertel, editor.
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Wæver, Ole, 1960- editor.
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Wivel, Anders, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031055058 |
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3031055055 |
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