1. Free International Relations Books

Free International Relations Books

Author by: G. John Ikenberry Language: en Publisher by: Cambridge University Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 60 Total Download: 275 File Size: 55,7 Mb Description: 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 systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experiences between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, when five or more powerful states dominated international relations, and the latter twentieth century, when two superpowers did so. Building on a highly successful special issue of the leading journal World Politics, this book seeks to determine whether what we think we know about power and patterns of state behavior applies to the current 'unipolar' setting and, if not, how core theoretical propositions about interstate interactions need to be revised. Author by: Branwen Gruffydd Jones Language: en Publisher by: Rowman & Littlefield Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 67 Total Download: 805 File Size: 52,6 Mb Description: The discipline of International Relations (IR) is concerned with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. This book exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions of colonialism, imperialism, race, slavery, and dispossession in the non-European world.