Polarity in International Relations: Past, Present, Future
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Polarity in International Relations : Past, Present, Future. / Græger, Nina (Editor); Heurlin, Bertel (Editor); Wæver, Ole (Editor); Wivel, Anders (Editor).
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 428 p. (Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Polarity in International Relations
T2 - Past, Present, Future
A2 - Græger, Nina
A2 - Heurlin, Bertel
A2 - Wæver, Ole
A2 - Wivel, Anders
PY - 2022/9/15
Y1 - 2022/9/15
N2 - This book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future. Despite a comprehensive debate on a global power shift, often discussed in terms of the decline of the United States, the crisis in the liberal international order, and the rise of China, IR´s main concept of power, ‘polarity’, remains undertheorized and understudied. The great powers and their importance for dynamics and processes in the international system are central to current debates on international order, but these debates too often suffer from a combination of politicized empirical analysis and reliance on old theoretical debates and conceptualizations, typically originating in the Cold War security environment. In order to meet these challenges, this book updates, conceptualizes, applies and critically debates the concepts of unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity and non-polarity in order to understand the current world order.
AB - This book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future. Despite a comprehensive debate on a global power shift, often discussed in terms of the decline of the United States, the crisis in the liberal international order, and the rise of China, IR´s main concept of power, ‘polarity’, remains undertheorized and understudied. The great powers and their importance for dynamics and processes in the international system are central to current debates on international order, but these debates too often suffer from a combination of politicized empirical analysis and reliance on old theoretical debates and conceptualizations, typically originating in the Cold War security environment. In order to meet these challenges, this book updates, conceptualizes, applies and critically debates the concepts of unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity and non-polarity in order to understand the current world order.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Polarity
KW - International order
KW - World order
KW - International Relations
KW - United States
KW - China
KW - bipolarity
KW - multipolarity
KW - Unipolarity
KW - international security
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05505-8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05505-8
M3 - Book
SN - 9783031055041
T3 - Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development
BT - Polarity in International Relations
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -
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