1st Edition

Unipolarity and World Politics A Theory and its Implications

By Birthe Hansen Copyright 2011
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order. Unipolarity is usually described either as a ‘brief moment’ or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world politics. Two issues have been crucial since the end of the Cold War: How to theorize the... Read more

1. What is Unipolarity?  2. Unipolarity and Balancing  3. The System  4. International Management  5. Management challenges and the structure  6. The World Order  7. The Distinctiveness of the Unipolar World Order

Biography

Birthe Hansen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.