1st Edition

Constructing the World Polity Essays on International Institutionalisation

By John Gerard Ruggie Copyright 1998
328 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new introduction, and comprehensive connective sections, present Ruggie's ideas and their application to critical policy questions of the post-Cold War international order. Themes covered include: * International... Read more
Introduction, I: International Organization 1. The New Institutionalism in International Relations 2. Embedded Liberalism and the Postwar Economic Regimes 3. Epistemology, Ontology, and the study of International Regimes 4. Multilateralism at Century's End II: The System of States 5. Political Structure and Dynamic Density 6. Social Time and Ecodemographic Contexts 7. Territoriality at Millennium's End III: The Question of Agency 8. Interests, Identity and American Foreign Policy 9. NATO and the Transatlantic Security Security Community 10. UN Forces: Whither or Whether?

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John Gerard Ruggie

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