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Unipolar Politics Realism and State Strategies after the Cold War

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ISBN-10: 0231113099

ISBN-13: 9780231113090

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ethan Kapstein, Michael Mastanduno

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Unipolar Politics brings together prominent scholars in international relations to analyze the decisions that major powers have made since the Cold War to adapt to a rapidly changing economic and security environment. The book points to powerful evidence that nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States in most respects, while still trying to maintain some independence of action in the event that America becomes isolationist, antagonistic, or simply uninterested in a particular regional crisis. Meanwhile the United States is being pulled in different directions by its own economic and security requirements, leading to policy contradictions that must be resolved if the…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/11/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.90" long x 1.28" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Michael Mastanduno is Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, USA. He has been Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Tokyo, Japan.

List of Contributors
Preface
Realism and State Strategies After the Cold War
Realism and the Present Great Power System: Growth and Positional Conflict Over Scarce Resources
The Political Economy of Realism
Realism, Structural Liberalism, and the Western Order
Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S. Grand Strategy After the Cold War
Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy
Realism and Russian Strategy after the Collapse of the USSR
Realism(s) and Chinese Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Period
Realism and Regionalism: American Power and German and Japanese Instituional Strategies During and After the Cold War
Realism and Reconciliation: France, Germany, and the European Union
Neorealism, Nuclear Proliferation, and East-Central European Strategies
Does Unipolarity Have a Future?
Index