Polarity, Balance of Power and International Relations Theory : Post-Cold War and the 19th Century Compared
De Keersmaeker, Goedele
2017
JC11-607
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Title Polarity, Balance of Power and International Relations Theory : Post-Cold War and the 19th Century Compared
Author De Keersmaeker, Goedele
ISBN 9783319426525
3319426524
9783319426518
3319426516
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42652-5
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XI, 247 pages) online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-42652-5 doi
Call Number JC11-607
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01
Summary The book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory. Since the end of the Cold War, until at least the end of 2010, there has been a wide consensus shared by American academics, political commentators and policy makers: the world was unipolar and would remain so for some time. By contrast, outside the US, a multipolar interpretation prevailed. This volume explores this contradiction and questions the Neorealist claim that polarity is the central structuring element of the international system. Here, the author analyses different historic eras through a polarity lens, compares the way polarity is used in the French and US public discourses, and through careful examination, reaches the conclusion that polarity terminology as a theoretical concept is highly influenced by the Cold War context in which it emerged. The book is an important resource for students and researchers with a critical approach to Neorealism, and to those interested in the defining shifts the world went through during the last twenty five years
Note The book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory. Since the end of the Cold War, until at least the end of 2010, there has been a wide consensus shared by American academics, political commentators and policy makers: the world was unipolar and would remain so for some time. By contrast, outside the US, a multipolar interpretation prevailed. This volume explores this contradiction and questions the Neorealist claim that polarity is the central structuring element of the international system. Here, the author analyses different historic eras through a polarity lens, compares the way polarity is used in the French and US public discourses, and through careful examination, reaches the conclusion that polarity terminology as a theoretical concept is highly influenced by the Cold War context in which it emerged. The book is an important resource for students and researchers with a critical approach to Neorealism, and to those interested in the defining shifts the world went through during the last twenty five years
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Part I: Polarity, Neorealism and its problems
1: Introduction, multipolarity and unipolarity after the Cold War
2: Polarity: the emergence and development of a concept
Part II: Polarity in the Cold War, the 19th Century and Today
3: The bipolar Cold War and polarity theory
4: The 19th Century: multipolar, bipolar or unipolar?
5: Polarity after 1990, a historical comparison
Part III: 19th century balance of power and 21st century multipolarity
6: The French multipolarity discourse
7: American hegemony, empire and unipolarity
8: Polarity, balance of power and universal monarchy
Part IV: Conclusion, the relevance of polarity theory?

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