@article{1449209,
      recid = {1449209},
      author = {Græger, Nina, and Heurlin, Bertel, and Wæver, Ole, and  Wivel, Anders,},
      title = {Polarity in international relations : past, present,  future /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1449209},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05505-8},
}