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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450979303321

Autore

Harrison Ewan <1973, >

Titolo

The post-Cold War international system : strategies, institutions, and reflexivity / / Ewan Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-33471-0

0-203-68470-2

1-280-07780-8

0-203-36623-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Collana

The new international relations

Disciplina

327/.09/049

Soggetti

International relations

World politics - 1989-

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-165) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction --Theoretical frameowrk -- Operationalising liberal predictions -- Chapter structure -- Reassessing the logic of anarchy : rationality versus reflexivity -- The neorealist model -- The institutionalist model -- The liberal model -- Towards a general synthesis -- Conclusions -- German foreign policy after the Cold War -- Neorealism -- Institutionalism -- Liberalism 1 : domestic variation -- Liberalism 2 : Germany's choices -- Japanese foreign policy after the Cold War -- Neorealism -- Institutionalism -- Liberalism 1 : domestic variation -- Liberalism 2 : Japan's choices -- Chinese foreign policy after the Cold War -- Neorealism -- Institutionalism -- Liberalism 1 : domestic variation -- Liberalism 2 : China's choices -- Conclusions -- International relations theory after the Cold War -- General patterns of institutionalised activity -- Foreign policy adjustments.

Sommario/riassunto

The end of the Cold War has opened up a 'real world laboratory' in which to test and refine general theories of international relations. Using the frameworks provided by structural realism, institutionalism and liberalism, The Post-Cold War International System examines how major powers responded to the collapse of the Soviet Union and



developed their foreign policies over the period of post-Cold War transition. The book argues that the democratic peace has begun to generate powerful socialisation effects, due to the emergence of a critical mass of liberal democratic states si