Author : Harvey Starr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2000-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472086276
Managing increasing global interdependence
Author : Katja Weber
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791491889
Hierarchy amidst Anarchy is a study of state security provisions, explaining not only why states cooperate, and with whom, but also why they choose the specific types of cooperation they do. In contrast to competing theories that explain international cooperation in terms of the desire to be "bigger" or "stronger", Weber insists that the key to understanding countries' international institutional choices can be found by focusing on economic theories of organization and, more specifically, transaction costs. Cross-sectional studies of two historical periods, the final years of the Napoleonic Wars (1812-15) and the post-1945 period – such contrasting security structures as NATO and the European Defense Community - are used to illustrate the argument.
Author : Robert Layton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139455060
Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory, it offers a novel approach to understanding stability and instability in human society. Robert Layton provides a radical critique of current concepts of civil society, arguing that rational action is characteristic of all human societies and not unique to post-Enlightenment Europe. Case studies range from ephemeral African gold rush communities and the night club scene in Britain to stable hunter-gatherer and peasant cultures. The dynamics of recent civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, Chad, Somalia and Indonesia are compared to war in small-scale tribal societies, arguing that recent claims for the evolutionary value of violence have misunderstood the complexity of human strategies and the social environments in which they are played out.
Author : Bruce Cronin
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231115964
"Community Under Anarchy" shows how the development of common social identities among political elites can lead to deeper, more cohesive forms of cooperation than what has been previously envisioned by traditional theories of international relations. Drawing from recent advances in social theory and constructivist approaches, Bruce Cronin demonstrates how these cohesive structures evolve from a series of discrete events and processes that help to diminish the conceptual boundaries dividing societies.
Author : Colin Ward
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629632384
The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organise themselves when left alone to do so.
Author : Robert M. Ellis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1326343793
"A departure at right angles to thinking in the modern Western world. An important, original work, that should get the widest possible hearing" (Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and his Emissary) Middle Way Philosophy is not about compromise, but about the avoidance of dogma and the integration of conflicting assumptions. To rely on experience as our guide, we need to avoid the interpretation of experience through unnecessary dogmas. Drawing on a range of influences in Buddhist practice, Western philosophy and psychology, Middle Way Philosophy questions alike the assumptions of scientific naturalism, religious revelation and political absolutism, trying to separate what addresses experience in these doctrines from what is merely assumed. This Omnibus edition of Middle Way Philosophy includes all four of the volumes previously published separately: 1. The Path of Objectivity, 2. The Integration of Desire, 3. The Integration of Meaning, and 4. The Integration of Belief.
Author : James Gow
Publisher : Polity
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745632351
This text provides a timely contribution to current debates about 21st century security challenges and draws on a range of contemporary world events to illustrate its arguments.
Author : Peter Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415037617
Talcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. These four volumes provide an essential guide to the thought and work of this major sociologist.
Author : Martin Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2002-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134559402
This timely book considers the topical issue of the enlargement processes of the European Union and NATO. The contributors examine issues including: the dual enlargement process and German and Russian relationships with it; NATO and the pan-European security agenda; East European reactions to enlargement; and concepts of security in the new Europe. This book provides a cohesive overview of the pan-European security debate and is an essential resource for students and academics interested in the development of the European Union.
Author : Lay Hwee Yeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134399103
This book provides a systematic and thorough examination of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process which brings together the fifteen EU member states, the European Commission and ten East and Southeast Asian countries. The author not only traces the actual development of the ASEM process, but also contextualises ASEM within three different international relations theoretical frameworks, as viewed by realists, social constructivists and institutionalists.
