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Title
Polarity in international relations : past, present, future / Nina Græger, Bertel Heurlin, Ole Wæver, Anders Wivel, editors.
ISBN
9783031055058 (electronic bk.)
3031055055 (electronic bk.)
9783031055041
3031055047
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-05505-8 doi
Call Number
JZ1305
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.101
Summary
This book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future. Despite a comprehensive debate on a global power shift, often discussed in terms of the decline of the United States, the crisis in the liberal international order, and the rise of China, IRs main concept of power, polarity, remains undertheorized and understudied. The great powers and their importance for dynamics and processes in the international system are central to current debates on international order, but these debates too often suffer from a combination of politicized empirical analysis and reliance on old theoretical debates and conceptualizations, typically originating in the Cold War security environment. In order to meet these challenges, this book updates, conceptualizes, applies and critically debates the concepts of unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity and non-polarity in order to understand the current world order. Nina Grger is Professor of International Relations and Head of Department at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Bertel Heurlin is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ole Wver is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Anders Wivel is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Includes index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 12, 2022).
Series
Governance, security and development. 2945-7823
1 Introduction: Understanding polarity in theory and history, description of the content of sections and chapters. (Bertel Heurlin, Nina Grger, Ole Wver, Anders Wivel)
2 Polarity in the liberal international order (Charles Kupchan, Robert Lieber, Peter Kurrild Klitgaard, Andre Ken Jakobsen, Rasmus Gjedss Bertelsen)
3 Polarity and the US-China problematique (Camilla Srensen, Anders Forsby, Bertel Heurlin)
4 Polarity, institutions and domestic politics (Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Eliza Gheorghe, Stuart Kaufman, Barbara Kunz)
5 Polarity and foreign policy (Kai He, Hans Mouritzen, Anders Wivel and Revecca Pedi, Henrik Larsen)
6 Contextualizing polarity (ystein Tunsj, Peter Toft, Sten Rynning, Carsten Jensen, Georg Srensen)
7 The future of polarity (William Wohlforth, Randall Schweller)
8 Conclusion (Bertel Heurlin, Nina Grger, Ole Wver, Anders Wivel).
