International relations theory and the consequences of unipolarity
"The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systema...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : unipolarity, state behavior, and systemic consequences
- 2. Unipolarity, status competition, and great power war
- 3. Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity : why being a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be
- 4. Alliances in a unipolar world
- 5. System maker and privilege taker : US power and the international political economy
- 6. Free hand abroad, divide and rule at home
- 7. The liberal sources of American unipolarity
- 8. Unipolarity : a structural perspective
- 9. Unipolarity and nuclear weapons
- 10. From unipolarity to multipolarity : transition in sight?
- 11. Sell unipolarity? The future of an overvalued concept