| Description |
xiv, 181 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Working for Peace: the Functional Approach, Functionalism and Beyond / David Long and Lucian M. Ashworth -- 2. Organizing for Peace: Science, Politics and Conflict in the Functional Approach / Justin D. Cooper -- 3. Functionalism and Modernity in International Relations / John H. Eastby -- 4. Bringing the Nation Back In? Mitrany and the Enjoyment of Nationalism / Lucian M. Ashworth -- 5. The Functional Approach, Organization Theory and Conflict Resolution / Craig N. Murphy -- 6. The United Nations and Functional Conflict Management / James Patrick Sewell -- 7. The Security Discourses of the European Union: a Functional Critique / David Long -- 8. From Farm War to Working Peace: the Functional Approach to the Management of Trade Conflict / Robert Wolfe -- 9. Practical Things, Constricted Interests: David Mitrany and the False Security of Ecofunctionalism / Robert Boardman |
| Summary |
"This book reassesses international functionalism as an approach to conflict in the contemporary global political economy."--BOOK JACKET. "The volume is a contribution to critical and constructive work in the tradition of liberal internationalism of which functionalism is a major part. The chapters link functionalism to current theoretical discourses in international relations. A revised functionalism emerges as the possible basis for a middle ground between the positivist theories of political economy that dominate much of the field of international relations and radical post-modernist and constructivist critiques."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-179) and index |
| Subject |
Conflict management.
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Functionalism (Social sciences)
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International cooperation.
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International relations.
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| Author |
Ashworth, Lucian M., 1964-
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Long, David, 1962-
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| LC no. |
98016547 |
| ISBN |
0312215754 (cloth) |
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0333710738 |
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