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Informationen zum Autor Shiping Tang has very broad research interests and has published widely. He is the author of A Theory of Security Strategy for Our Time: Defensive Realism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2010) and A General Theory of Institutional Change (Routledge, 2011). He is also the co-editor of Living with China: Regional States and China through Crises and Turning Points (Palgrave-Macmillan 2009). His most recent publications include many articles in leading journals in international relations, comparative politics, and philosophy of social sciences. His next book is On Social Evolution. He is Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA), Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai, China. Klappentext The Social Evolution of International Politics critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides interesting solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from realism and neoliberalism, to the English School and constructivism. "In this exciting new book, Tang argues for a Social Evolution Paradigm (SEP) as the basis of social scientific and international relations theorizing. Simultaneously provocative and insightful, Tang provides an historically sweeping account of international political transformations and their relationship to theories of international relations. In so doing, Tang provides ample evidence that his approach encourages better understanding not just of international politics but also of how we have and should study it."--Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut "Professor Shiping Tang advances a bold and provocative argument. He submits that human society has historically evolved from relatively benign relations in hunter-gatherer societies, to offensive realist systems, then to defensive systems, and finally to a more institutionally rule-based international system. Prevalent international relations theories, such as realism and liberalism, are historically contingent rather than trans-historical theories. Tang's social evolutionary account aims to encompass these prevalent arguments while providing a broad overview of the international system from its beginning to the present day."--Hendrik Spruyt, Director of the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, and Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Northwestern University "In social science 'evolution' is usually used as a metaphor, but in his insightful and important study Shiping Tang takes it serious and shows how IR has actually evolved. In doing so he revises and reconciles many of our familiar theories and casts a fresh and fascinating light on the inter-relations among war, states, and societies. A truly sweeping account."--Robert Jervis, Columbia University, author of System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life- "Shiping Tang has produced a non-determinist and non-reductionist approac Zusammenfassung The Social Evolution of International Politics critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides interesting solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from realism and neoliberalism, to the English School and constructivism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Figures List of Tables Part I: Preparing the Ground Introduction: Why an Evolutionary Approach toward IR? 1: From Biological Evolution to Social Evolution Part II: The Systemic Transformation of International Politics 2: Paradise Lost and Paradigm Gained: The Making of the Offensive Chapter From the Offensive Realism World to a Defensive Realism World 3: From the Offensive Realism World to a Defensive Realism World Part III. Implications and Conclusion 4: A More Rule-based International System Unfolding 5: International System as an Evolutionar...
