Chomsky N. Hegemony or survival

Rputledge, London and New York, 2008. 248 p. This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case studies, each of which throws light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. The point of departure for this book is Paul Kennedy’s 1988 masterpiece, The Rise and...

Third edition 2005 Published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 294 p. Introduction: Defining International Relations. Perspectives and theories. Conclusion. The Development of International Relations. Theory in the Twentieth Century. ntroduction. Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline. The ‘realist’ critique of liberal internationalism. The post-war synthesis. nternational Relations and the behavioural sciences. Challenges to the realis...

An East-Gate Book M.E. Sharpe, Armonk New York, London England, 2005. 365 p. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism. It reviews "old" security realities covered in previous editions, and highlights more recent security issues in the region, including the North Korean threat, weapons of mass destruction prolife...

Routledge, 2010 - 278 P. Introduction Part I. Superpower Rivalry: An Overview A Historical Overview Of The Cold War Superpower Rivalry And The Victimization Of Korea: The Korean War And The North Korean Nuclear Crisis Regional Fallout: Vietnam Afghanistan: During The Cold War Pakistan And The Cold War Part II. Prospects For A Multipolar World: Perspectives At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century Theorizing Unipolarity Debating Mult...

Oxford University Press. 2011. 285 p. Can international legitimacy operate even in a deformed balance of power, and when there is only one dominant state? Conventionally, hegemony has been perceived as a threat to international society. But how then is international order to be maintained, if this still requires a managerial role on the part of the great powers? IR theory has not taken that problem sufficiently seriously. This study makes a shar...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 228 p. "Temptations of Power" examines the new security dilemma that confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved for the first time on 9/11 that they could seriously wound even the greatest of military powers on its own soil. The authors argue that the response was influenced by neo-conservative exaggeration of the efficacy of military power and belief in the US ability to change the world. Jackson and Towle advoca...

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 2004. 293 p. In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in...

Stanford University Press, 2004. 384 p. Since the 16th century, balance of power politics have profoundly influenced international relations. But in recent years—with the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, growing power of the United States, and increasing prominence of international institutions—many scholars have argued that balance of power theory is losing its relevance. This book examines the current position and future of balance of...