Rethinking power, institutions and ideas in world politics : whose IR? /

"In this collection of work by renowned scholar Amitav Acharya, Acharya draws on extensive research from throughout his career and examines the dominant understandings of three of the most important theoretical concepts used by scholars of world politics: power, institutions and ideas"--

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Main Author: Acharya, Amitav (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
London ; New York : Routledge, 2014
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • International relations theories and Western dominance: reassessing the foundations of international order
  • Dialogue and discovery: in search of international relations theories beyond the West
  • Comparative regionalism: a field whose time has come?
  • The Cold War as "long peace" revisited
  • State sovereignty after 9/11: disorganized hypocrisy
  • Multilateralism: beyond hegemony and without victory
  • The contested regional architecture of world politics
  • How ideas spread: whose norms matter? Norm localization and institutional change in Asian regionalism
  • Norm subsidiarity and regional orders: sovereignty, regionalism and rule-making in the third world
  • Conclusion: Towards a global IR? Pathways and pitfalls
  • Part I IR theory and its discontents 21
  • 1 International relations theories and Western dominance: reassessing the foundations of international order 23
  • 2 Dialogue and discovery: in search of international relations theories beyond the West 44
  • 3 Comparative regionalism: a field whose time has come? 74
  • Part II Power, intervention and global disorders 87
  • 4 The Cold War as "long peace" revisited 89
  • 5 State sovereignty after 9/11: disorganized hypocrisy 116
  • Part III Institutions, autonomy and regional orders 139
  • 6 Multilateralism: beyond hegemony and without victory 141
  • 7 The contested regional architecture of world politics 159
  • Part IV Ideas, agency and normative cultures 181
  • 8 How ideas spread: whose norms matter? Norm localization and institutional change in Asian regionalism 183
  • 9 Norm subsidiarity and regional orders: sovereignty, regionalism and rule-making in the Third World 217