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Unipolar Politics brings together prominent scholars in international relations to analyze the decisions that major powers have made since the Cold War to adapt to a rapidly changing economic and security environment.

The book points to powerful evidence that nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States in most respects, while still trying to maintain some independence of action in the event that America becomes isolationist, antagonistic, or simply uninterested in a particular regional crisis. Meanwhile the United States is being pulled in different directions by its own economic and security requirements, leading to policy contradictions that must be resolved if the "unipolar" moment is to endure.

The authors acknowledge that, while great power wars are now unlikely, positional conflicts over resources and markets still remain, and may even be strengthening.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• 1 Realism and International Relations After the Cold War
• 2 Realism and the Present Great Power System: Growth and Positional Conflict Over Scarce Resources
• 3 The Political Economy of Realism
• 4 Realism Structural Liberalism, and the Western Order
• 5 Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S. Grand Strategy After the Cold War
• 6 Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy
• 7 Realism and Russian Strategy after the Collapse of the USSR
• 8 Realism(s) and Chinese Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Period
• 9 Realism and Regionalism: American Power and German and Japanese Institutional Strategies During and After the Cold War
• 10 Realism and Reconciliation: France, Germany, and the European Union
• 11 Neorealism Nuclear Proliferation, and East-Central European Strategies
• 12 Does Unipolarity Have A Future?

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CHOICE Review

A product of the "Changing Security Environment" project at Harvard University's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, this volume presents a dozen original theoretical essays that explain the direction of world politics now that the bipolar structure of the Cold War has dissipated. The range of approaches is sufficiently broad to provide stimuli for a variety of interests. Several essays focus on economic issues; one assesses state behavior under conditions of resource deprivation and scarcity, the political economy of a "realist's" world, and the role of economics in Japanese national strategy. An intriguing essay examines how Chinese political elites define their external environment as the basis of foreign policy. American foreign policy is examined on the basis of threats that are subjected and projected according to some element of balance. A sophisticated path analysis examines the power and interests of Russia, Germany, France, and Japan. The book is a valuable research-oriented guide to case studies in areas already covered and theoretical approaches to other regions. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty interested in international relations theory. S. R. Silverburg; Catawba College

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Ethan Kapstein is the Stassen Professor of International Peace in the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.
Michael Mastanduno is Professor of Government and Director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.
Randall Schweller is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University.
Jonathan Kirshner is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University.
Daniel Deudney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
John Ikenberry is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Eric Heginbotham is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nell MacFarlane is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Iain Johnston is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University.
Joseph Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University.
Michael Loriaux is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.
Mark Kramer is a Research Associate at the Shelby Cullom Davis Russian Research Center at Harvard University.