International Relations Theory and the Third World

Herausgegeben:Neuman, Stephanie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Is Western international relations theory relevant for the Third World? During the Cold War, scholars focused obsessively on the challenges of the US-Soviet conflict, paying little theoretical heed to the role of the Third World in international politics or the sources of its foreign policy behaviour. What attention the Third World did receive was within the context of the East/West struggle. As the hostilities of the Cold War began to fade, so apparently did the creative energy of IR theorists. Since then, in spite of major global change, no new theoretical changes have taken place - until now. International Relations Theory and the Third World addresses the lack of scholarship devoted to Third World policy behaviour by collecting the top analysts and showcasing them in this volume. The authors describe and examine the deficiencies of existing theory and present alternate explanations of Third World policy behaviour. Taken together, their essays demonstrate how exploring the Third World experience can broaden and enrich our understanding of how and why states interact in the international system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-312-17706-5
• 1998
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9780312177065
• ISBN-10: 0312177062
• Artikelnr.: 20991395

Autorenporträt

STEPHANIE G. NEUMAN is Director of the Comparative Defense Studies Program and teaches Third World security courses at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: International Relations Theory and the Third World: An Oxymoron?; S.G.Neuman Beyond Anarchy: Third World Instability and International Order after the Cold War; A.Acharya Subaltern Realism: IR Theory Meets the Third World; M.Ayoob The Primacy of Internal War; S.David Peripheral Realism and the Interstate System: Argentina and the Condor II Missle Project; C.Escude International Theory and Domestic War in the Third World; K.J.Holsti Third World Thinking and Contemporary International Relations; D.J.Puchala A Critique of the Critics; B.Buzan Conclusion: The Future of International Relations Theory; S.G.Neuman