1st Edition

International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order Beyond International Relations Theory?

By N. J. Rengger Copyright 2000
252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

At the turn of the millennium, and now after the fall of the Berlin wall, the best way to map the trajectories of contemporary international relations is hotly contested. Is the world more or less ordered than during the cold war? Are we on the way to a neo-liberal era of free markets and global governance, or in danger of collapsing into a new Middle Ages? Are we on the verge of a new world... Read more
Introduction: International Relations theory and the problem of order PART I Managing order? 1 Balance 2 Society 3 Institutions PART II Ending order? 4 Emancipation 5 Limits Epilogue: ordering ends?

Biography

N.J. Rengger is Reader in Political Theory and International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Political Theory, Modernity and Postmodernity; Dilemmas of World Politics; and Retreat from the Modern.