02744nam 2200529 450 991059008410332120231211115618.03-031-05505-5(MiAaPQ)EBC7079625(Au-PeEL)EBL7079625(CKB)24767662400041(EXLCZ)992476766240004120230114d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolarity in international relationspast, present, futureNina Græger [and three others] editorsCham, SwitzerlandPalgrave Macmillan[2022]1 online resource (428 pages)Governance, Security and DevelopmentGOBIIncludes index.Print version: Græger, Nina Polarity in International Relations Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031055041 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.Governance, security and development.International relationsFBCInternationale rerlationerFBCInternational politikFBCElectronic BooksInternational relations.Internationale rerlationerInternational politik32723zHeurlin BertelGræger NinaWivel AndersWæver OleMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910590084103321Polarity in international relations3363936UNINA