Agency, Structure and International Politics (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

The concepts of agency and structure are of increasing and defining importance to international relations and politics as fields of enquiry and knowledge. This is the first book to explore the two concepts in depth in that context.The agent-structure problem refers to questions concerning the interrelationship of agency and structure, and to the ways in which explanations of social phenomena integrate and account for them. This is an important contribution to the study of international relations and politics.

Agency, Structure and International Politics: From Ontology to Empirical Inquiry (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Starr, Harvey

Friedman, Gil

Politics & Government

Routledge

Anarchy, Order, and Integration: How to Manage Interdependence

Most observers agree that the global arena is in the midst of multiple changes. The elements that create and intensify global interdependencies have been expanding rapidly, generating questions about the viability of the state and the viability of the state-centric system that has existed for over 500 years, as well as what sorts of structures and behaviors might replace them. And yet much of the analysis is not helpful in understanding the condition of the international system because it either fails to define the meaning of terms such as interdependence and order or treats these as new problems ignoring many important ideas that have developed over the years about international politics. One of our most accomplished scholars in international affairs, Harvey Starr offers a fresh and original analysis of the nature of the international system. Starr argues that the global system can best be understood as the consequence of states adapting to changing interdependencies. States do remain important in this system, but the reality they adapt to is changing. Thus the environment surrounding states is important not because it is "anarchic," as argued by structural realists such as Waltz, but because environmental conditions have changed, thereby changing the meaning and significance of such structural characteristics as "anarchy." Starr argues that we must recognize that the modes by which states adapt to change in the international system lead to changes in both the states themselves and in their environment. This book will appeal to scholars of international relations in political science and economics as well as to policy makers and analysts interested in understanding change in the international system. Harvey Starr is Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and International Studies, University of South Carolina. He is the coauthor with Randolph Siverson of The Diffusion of War: A Study of Opportunity and Willingness.

Anarchy, Order and Integration: How to Manage Interdependence

Business & Money

International

University of Michigan Press

Most observers agree that the global arena is in the midst of multiple changes. The elements that create and intensify global interdependencies have been expanding rapidly, generating questions about the viability of the state and the viability of the state-centric system that has existed for over 500 years, as well as what sorts of structures and behaviors might replace them. And yet much of the analysis is not helpful in understanding the condition of the international system because it either fails to define the meaning of terms such as interdependence and order or treats these as new problems ignoring many important ideas that have developed over the years about international politics. One of our most accomplished scholars in international affairs, Harvey Starr offers a fresh and original analysis of the nature of the international system. Starr argues that the global system can best be understood as the consequence of states adapting to changing interdependencies. States do remain important in this system, but the reality they adapt to is changing. Thus the environment surrounding states is important not because it is "anarchic," as argued by structural realists such as Waltz, but because environmental conditions have changed, thereby changing the meaning and significance of such structural characteristics as "anarchy." Starr argues that we must recognize that the modes by which states adapt to change in the international system lead to changes in both the states themselves and in their environment.This book will appeal to scholars of international relations in political science and economics as well as to policy makers and analysts interested in understanding change in the international system.Harvey Starr is Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and International Studies, University of South Carolina. He is the coauthor with Randolph Siverson of The Diffusion of War: A Study of Opportunity and Willingness.

Univ of Michigan Pr

WORLD POLITICS: THE MENU FOR CHOICE is appropriate for courses in Introduction to International Relations and World Politics for political science majors and others interested in international affairs.

World Politics: The Menu for Choice

Education & Teaching

Russett, Bruce

Kinsella, David

Schools & Teaching

Wadsworth Publishing

WORLD POLITICS provides students with the tools they need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations. It incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an accessible introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations. The text, tables, and figures have been thoroughly updated and new material has been added which relates conceptual and analytic tools to contemporary developments in world affairs.

World Politics: The Menu for Choice (with InfoTrac) (Available Titles CengageNOW)

Get the tools you need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations with WORLD POLITICS: THE MENU FOR CHOICE. This textbook incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations.

Cengage Learning'

Book by Russett, Bruce, Starr, Harvey

Choices in World Politics: Sovereignty and Interdependence

W.H.Freeman & Co.

W H Freeman & Co (Sd)

State Failure in the Modern World

State failure is seen as one of the significant threats to regional and international stability in the current international system. State Failure in the Modern World presents a comprehensive, systematic, and empirically rigorous analysis of the full range of the state failure process in the post-World War II state system―including what state failure means, its causes, what accounts for its duration, its consequences, and its implications. Among the questions the book addresses are: when and why state failure occurs, why it recurs in any single state, and when and why its consequences spread to other states. The book sets out the array of problems in previous work on state failure with respect to conceptualization and definition, as well as how the causes and consequences of state failure have been addressed, and presents analyses to deal with these problems. Any analysis of state failure can be seen as an exercise in policy evaluation; this book undertakes the theoretical, conceptual, and analytic work that must be done before we can evaluate―or have much confidence in―both current and proposed policy prescriptions to prevent or manage state collapse.

Iqbal, Zaryab

Stanford Security Studies

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Agency, Structure and International Politics: From Ontology to Empirical Inquiry (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Agency, Structure and International Politics (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Anarchy, Order and Integration: How to Manage Interdependence

Anarchy, Order, and Integration: How to Manage Interdependence

World Politics: The Menu for Choice

World Politics: The Menu for Choice (with InfoTrac) (Available Titles CengageNOW)

World Politics: The Menu for Choice

Choices in World Politics: Sovereignty and Interdependence

World Politics: The Menu for Choice

State Failure in the Modern World