Polarity in International Relations: Past, Present, Future 1st Edition Nina Græger

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031055047
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031055041
• Author(s): Nina Græger, Bertel Heurlin, Ole Wæver, Anders Wivel

This book brings together a group of leading scholars on international relations to develop and apply the concept of polarity on past and present international relations and discuss its applicability and usefulness in the future. Despite a comprehensive debate on a global power shift, often discussed in terms of the decline of the United States, the crisis in the liberal international order, and the rise of China, IR´s main concept of power, ‘polarity’, remains undertheorized and understudied. The great powers and their importance for dynamics and processes in the international system are central to current debates on international order, but these debates too often suffer from a combination of politicized empirical analysis and reliance on old theoretical debates and conceptualizations, typically originating in the Cold War security environment. In order to meet these challenges, this book updates, conceptualizes, applies and critically debates the concepts of unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity and non-polarity in order to understand the current world order.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Understanding Polarity in Theory and History
Part I. Theorizing Polarity
2. Polarity Is What Power Does When It Becomes Structure
3. Polarity and Threat Perception in Foreign Policy: A Dynamic Balancing Model
4. Uneasy Partners: Neorealism and Unipolar World Order
5. Combining Polarity and Geopolitics: The Explanatory Power of Geostructural Realism
6. Between Polarity and Foreign Policy: Freedom of Manoeuvre Is the Missing Link
7. What Future for Small States After Unipolarity? Strategic Opportunities and Challenges in the Post-American World Order
8. Critical, Restless, and Relevant: Realism as Normative Thought
Part II. Polarity and International Security
9. Polarity, Non-polarity, and the Risks of A-Polarity
10. Unipolarity and Nationalism: The Racialized Legacies of an Anglo-Saxon Unipole
11. Managing the Delta of Unipolarity: Post-Cold War Misalignment of American Political Projects and World Order from DPG92 to Trump
12. The Nexus of Systemic Power and Identity: Structural Variations of the US-China Great Power Rivalry
13. The US Unipolar World Order and China’s Rise
14. Polarity and Realignment in East Asia 1945–2020
15. Polarity, Proliferation, and Restraint: A Market-Centric Approach
16. Unipolarity and Order in the Arctic
17. Europe in the U.S.-Russian Security Dilemma: Is There a Way Out?
18. The Discourse on the US/NATO and the EU in Danish Foreign Policy: The Language of Unipolarity?
Part III. The Future of Polarity and International Order
19. A U.S. Strategy of Judicious Retrenchment
20. An Emerging World that Defies Historical Analogy
21. Polarity and International Order: Past and Future

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