Contending Images of World Politics - Fry, Greg; O'Hagan, Jacinta
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This major new textbook provides a novel and interesting new approach to the study of international relations. Taking as its starting point a range of influential recent perspectives on the changing world order (from Samuel P. Huntington's 'clash of civilizations' between the West, and the rest to Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis) the book brings together specially-commissioned chapters written in a highly accessible style by a truly international cast of contributors.
Table of contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
PART I: POWER, ORDER AND INTER-STATE POLITICS…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This major new textbook provides a novel and interesting new approach to the study of international relations. Taking as its starting point a range of influential recent perspectives on the changing world order (from Samuel P. Huntington's 'clash of civilizations' between the West, and the rest to Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis) the book brings together specially-commissioned chapters written in a highly accessible style by a truly international cast of contributors.

Table of contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

PART I: POWER, ORDER AND INTER-STATE POLITICS
The 'End of History'?; ‘J.L.Richardson’
'Back to the Future'?; ‘J.George’
A 'Balance of Power'?; ‘R.Little’
An 'International Society'?; ’P.Keal’

PART II: GLOBALISATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMUNITY
A 'Borderless World'?; ‘I.Clark’
The 'End of Sovereignty'?; ‘J.C.Pemberton’
A 'New Medievalism'?; ’R.Falk’
The 'Coming Age of Regionalism'?; ’G.Fry’

PART III: FRAGMENTATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
A 'Clash of Civilisations'?; ‘J.O'Hagan’
A ' World of Tribes'?; ‘G.Mount’
'Islam Versus the West'?; ‘A.Saikal’

PART IV: KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND INCLUSION
An 'Endangered Planet'?; ‘J.Sutherland’
A 'Gendered Global Hierarchy'?; ‘V.S.Peterson’
A 'Post-colonial World'?; ’S.Seth’
The 'End of Modernity'?; ’R.Bleiker’
The Future of World Politics; ‘J.O'Hagan & G.Fry’
Bibliography
Index
Autorenporträt
GREG FRY is Hedley Bull Fellow, Department of International Relations, Australian National University.

JACINTA O'HAGAN is Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Studies, University of Southern California.