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International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation.
A comprehensive treatment of regional transformation, offering insights from different theoretical perspectives and generating a range of policy-relevant ideas.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; About the contributors; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Introduction; 1: Regional transformation in international relations; What are regions?; International Relations theory and regional order; Realism; Liberalism; Constructivism; Eclectic perspectives; Significance of this volume; Research questions; The chapters; 2: How regions were made, and the legacies for world politics: an English School reconnaissance; Introduction; The formative processes of modern regions; Unbroken creation.
- RepopulationColonization/decolonization; Encounter/reform; The postcolonial development and differentiation of modern regions; Conclusions; Part 2: Realist perspectives; 3: Realism and Neorealism in the study of regional conflict; Regional subsystems and realist theories of war; Dynamic differentials theory and regional stability; Great powers within regions; Conclusion; 4: Neoclassical realism and the study of regional order; Introduction; Identifying extra-regional hegemons and pivotal states; Systemic constraints on extra-regional hegemons.
- Systemic and regional constraints on pivotal states: Western Europe and East AsiaLinking the levels: a few words on external threats and state power; Conclusions: implications for other regions; Part 3: Liberal perspectives; 5: Economic interdependence and regional peace; An old thesis; Does interdependence correlate to cooperation and peace?; It depends?; Does interdependence cause cooperation and peace?; Can commerce pacify dangerous regions?; From dyads to regions; What causes regional interdependence?; Domestic explanations; International-structural explanations.
- Would regional interdependence work?Conclusion; 6: Regional organizations à la carte: the effects of institutional elasticity; Why Europe?; Institutionalism and regional formation and maintenance; Neoliberal institutionalism: the state and the institutions it creates; Liberal intergovernmentalism: societal actors, governments, bargaining; Neofunctionalism: transnational actors and incremental change; Institutional elasticity: institutional strength and flexibility; Institutional strength and dependable expectations; Institutional flexibility and peaceful change.
- Elastic Europe in an inelastic worldConclusion: the scope of institutionalism; 7: Transforming regional security through liberal reforms; Developing a science of interstate conflict; Progress through the analysis of dyadic time series; Analyses of fatal militarized disputes, 1885-2001; Transforming regional security through liberal reforms; Alternative theories of regional transformation: hegemonic stability theory and the clash of civilizations; Does a hegemon create stability?; Do civilizations clash?; Conclusion; Part 4: Constructivist perspectives; 8: Ideas, norms, and regional orders.