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The waves of time : long-term change and international relations /
"This volume provides an overview of the whole range of long-term analyses in international relations. It evaluates and draws on theoretical approaches in both the humanities and social sciences - in subjects such as sociology, history, anthropology and archaeology - and recent progress in evol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : multidisciplinary approaches.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Notes; 1. Beyond the horizon: theories of long-term change in International Relations; Introduction; Types of change and of modes of analysis; International Relations theory and long-term change; Realism and long-term change; Pluralism and long-term change; Structuralist approaches to long-term change; Post-modernism; Conclusion to the review of International Relations theory approaches; Notes; 2. How times change: the interdisciplinary context; Sociological approaches; Geographical approaches; History
- Anthropological approachesArchaeological approaches; Economic approaches; Mathematical approaches; Biological approaches; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Making history: shared perspectives and shared problems in the study of long-term change; Introduction; Ecological approaches; Evolutionary approaches; Economic approaches; Cognitive approaches; Interactional approaches; Structural approaches; Historical particularist approaches; Mathematical or formal approaches; Conclusion to review of previous approaches; Perspectivism: a post-relativist epistemology; Conclusion to epistemologica! discussion
- General conclusion to chapterNotes; 4. The waves of time? A new theory of change in socio-political systems; Introduction; Taking complexity seriously; The individual in society; Temporalities of change; Coping with structure; Complexity and decision-making; Managing information; Innovation and the rate of change; Empirical evidence for macrodynamics; Scale, differentiation, information processing and vulnerability; The politics of increasing scale; The lack of similar approaches in International Relations; Interaction between socio-political systems; Conclusion; Notes
- 5. The origins of international relations: non-state societiesIntroduction; Kin-based societies; The transition to governed society; The earliest regularly governed societies; Chiefdoms; Over-chiefdoms; From chiefdoms to over-chiefdoms; From chiefdom to the state; Defining the state; Mesopotamia; Mesoamerica; Peru; The Indus Valley; Egypt; China; Sub-Saharan Africa; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Cyclical states: the long-term dynamics of socio-political systems in the age of the state; Introduction; Analysing regional state systems; Cyclicality and regional state systems
- Recognizing cyclical regularitiesDefining the regional system in geographical terms; Western Europe; The origins of the western European sub-regional system; The Roman Empire; Late Antiquity; The barbarian kingdoms; The early Middle Ages; The Viking Age; The medieval feudal system; The Renaissance system; The modern system; Conclusion to the examination of the western European trajectory; The Middle East; The earliest Middle Eastern systems; The Roman period; The early Byzantine Empire; The early Arab system; The Abbasid period; The revival of the Byzantine Empire; The 'Crusader' system