Global Horizons

An Introduction to International Relations

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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In the current era we have the ability to wage global war, interact economically and culturally with any part of the world, and communicate with each other in real time. Our horizons are now global. Time and space have contracted. This text takes the change in our horizons as a key feature of modern international relations, examining how international politics and the relations between nations and states have become global politics.Rather than survey a large array of issues and theories, Spruyt provides students with particular "tools of the trade" and with different perspectives to understand given empirical puzzles. Each section of the book discusses key theories, which may be useful in understanding the issues in question, and then applies them to empirical cases in order to demonstrate how theory relates to practice. Case studies allow for both an historical and comparative approach.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-03-01
Mått152 x 230 x 14 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442600928

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Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Sovereign State and its Competitors (Princeton University Press, 1994), which won the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in History and Politics, 1994-96. His most recent book is Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition (Cornell University Press, 2005).

List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction: The Dawn of the Global Event HorizonPart I: International Security1. Tools of the Trade (1): Understanding War and Peace from Three Perspectives2. Tools of the Trade (2): Game Theory3. World War I4. The Cold War and After5. The American Invasion of Iraq in 2003Resources Part II: The Global Economy6. Tools of the Trade: Comparative Case Strategy and Hegemonic Stability Theory7. Three Views of Economics and Politics8. Paradigmatic Legacies: Variations in Capitalism 9. The International Economic Order and the Question of ConvergenceResources Part III: Global Challenges: Energy and the Environment10. Tools of the Trade: Common Pool Resources and Imperfect Markets11. The Politics of Energy12. Global Warming and Ozone DepletionResources Bibliography Index