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Author Ruggie, John Gerard, 1944-

Title Constructing the world polity : essays on international institutionalization / John Gerard Ruggie
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description xiii, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Series The new international relations
New international relations.
Contents Introduction: What makes the world hang together? Neo utilitarianism and the social constructivist challenge Pt. I. International organization: "I wouldn't start from here if I were you" 1. The new institutionalism in international relations. 2. Embedded liberalism and the postwar economic regimes. 3. Epistemology, ontology, and the study of international regimes. 4. Multilateralism at century's end Pt. II. The system of states: problematizing Westphalia. 5. Political structure and dynamic density. 6. Social time and ecodemographic contexts. 7. Territoriality at millennium's end Pt. III. The question of agency: making history in the new era. 8. Interests, identity, and American foreign policy. 9. NATO and the transatlantic security community. 10. UN forces: whither or whether? Publications / John Gerard Ruggie
Summary This volume of essays brings together John Gerard Ruggie's most influential theoretical ideas and their application to critical policy questions concerning the post-Cold War international order
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-301) and index
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Subject International agencies.
International cooperation.
International organization.
International relations -- Philosophy.
International relations.
Security, International.
State, The.
World politics -- 1945-1955.
World politics.
LC no. 98192711
ISBN 0415099900 (hbk)
0415099919 (paperback)