Constructing the World Polity - Essays on International Institutionalisation

Zusatztext 'Coherent and well-structured.' - NOD and Conversion Informationen zum Autor John Gerard Ruggie Klappentext Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new introduction, and comprehensive connective sections, present Ruggie's ideas and their application to critical policy questions of the post-Cold War international order. Themes covered include:* International Organization. How the 'new Institutionalism' differs from the old.* The System of States. Explorations of political structure, social time, and territorial space in the world polity.* Making History. America and the issue of 'agency' in the post-Cold Was era. NATO and the future transatlantic security community. The United Nations and the collective use of force. Zusammenfassung This volume of essays brings together John Gerard Ruggie's most influential theoretical ideas and their application to critical policy questions concerning the post-Cold War international order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, I: International Organization 1. The New Institutionalism in International Relations 2. Embedded Liberalism and the Postwar Economic Regimes 3. Epistemology, Ontology, and the study of International Regimes 4. Multilateralism at Century's End II: The System of States 5. Political Structure and Dynamic Density 6. Social Time and Ecodemographic Contexts 7. Territoriality at Millennium's End III: The Question of Agency 8. Interests, Identity and American Foreign Policy 9. NATO and the Transatlantic Security Security Community 10. UN Forces: Whither or Whether?

Product details

• Authors: John Gerard Ruggie, Professor John Gerard Ruggie, John Gerard Ruggle, RUGGLE JOHN GERARD
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.1998
• EAN: 9780415099905
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09990-5
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: New International Relations; New International Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government