Special Responsibilities - Global Problems and American Power

Informationen zum Autor Mlada Bukovansky is Associate Professor of Government at Smith College. She is the author of Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture (2002). Klappentext This is the first study of how major global problems have been managed through the international distribution of special responsibilities. Zusammenfassung Does power dictate how we tackle major global problems? Do the strongest states simply impose their own solutions? This path-breaking study offers an original insight into the nature of American power and into the politics of nuclear proliferation! climate change and global finance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Framework: 1. A practice in search of a theory; 2. Special responsibilities in world politics; Part II. Three Global Problems: 3. Nuclear proliferation; 4. Climate change; 5. Global finance; Part III. Ethical Dimensions: 6. The ethics of special responsibilities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Mlada Bukovansky, Mlada (Smith College Bukovansky, Mlada Clark Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Robyn (University of Melbourne) Eckersley, Richard Price, Richard (University of British Columbia Price, Christian Reus-Smit, Christian (European University Institute Reus-Smit, Nicholas J. Wheeler
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107691698
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69169-8
• No. of pages: 302
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education