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In this collection of work by renowned scholar Amitav Acharya, Acharya draws on extensive research from throughout his career and examines the dominant understandings of three of the most important theoretical concepts used by scholars of world politics:
power,
institutions and
ideas.
List of contents
Introduction, Rethinking Power, Institutions and Ideas in World Politics I. IR Theory and Its Discontents Chapter1. International Relations Theory and Western Dominance, Chapter 2. Dialogue and Discovery: International Relations Theories beyond the West Chapter 3. Comparative Regionalism: A Field Whose Time Has Come? II. Power, Intervention and Global Disorders Chapter 4. The Cold War as "Long Peace" Reexamined Chapter 5. State Sovereignty After 9/11: Disorganized Hypocrisy III. Institutions, Autonomy and Regional Orders Chapter 6. Multilateralism : Beyond Hegemony and Without Victory Chapter Chapter 7. The Contested Regional Architecture of World Politics IV: Ideas, Agency and Normative Cultures Chapter 8 How Ideas Spread, Whose Norms Matter? Chapter 9. Norm Subsidiarity and Regional Orders, Conclusion Towards a Global IR? Pathways and Pitfalls
About the author
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Chair of the ASEAN Studies Center at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C.
He was Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol, Professor of International Relations at York University, Toronto, the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of International Relations at Rhodes University, South Africa, Fellow of the Harvard University Asia Center, Fellow of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Christensen Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Summary
In this collection of work by renowned scholar Amitav Acharya, Acharya draws on extensive research from throughout his career and examines the dominant understandings of three of the most important theoretical concepts used by scholars of world politics: power, institutions and ideas.
