Research Catalog

Title

A world of polities : essays on global politics / Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach.

Author

Ferguson, Yale H.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mansbach, Richard W., 1943-

Description

vi, 268 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Ferguson and Mansbach have made a significant contribution to our contemporary understanding of global politics. This collection contains some of their classic essays and many unpublished articles which have been edited into a coherent and stimulating collection.

Subject

International relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-250) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The principal puzzle (2008) -- Between celebration and despair : constructive suggestions for future international theory (1991) -- Values and paradigm change (1988, 2003) -- Reconstructing theory in global politics : beyond the postmodern challenge (2002) -- Historical perspectives on contemporary global politics : promise and pitfalls (2008) -- The web of world politics (1976) -- Italy after Rome : complexity at the nexus of the ancient and modern worlds (1996) -- Islam : the evolution of a messianic movement (1996) -- The past as prelude to the future? identities and loyalties in global politics (1996) -- Beyond international relations to global politics : overlapping political space, shifting boundaries, and revised authority structures (2008) -- War and innocent victims : the paradox of Westphalia (2008) -- Superpower, hegemony, empire (2008) -- Post-internationalism and IR theory (2007).

ISBN

• 9780415772174 (hardback)
• 0415772176 (hardback)
• 9780415772181 (pbk.)
• 0415772184 (pbk.)
• 9780203939055 (ebook)
• 0203939050 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2007011522

OCLC

• 87760492
• SCSB-12696228

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library