International Relations Since the End of the Cold War

New and Old Dimensions
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-966643-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

In International Relations Since the End of the Cold War many of the world's leading historians and historically oriented political scientists deal with the Cold War legacy and many of the new issues that have emerged since the end of the Cold War. Stewart Patrick sums up the most important developments in the post-Cold War world. John Oneal and John Mueller discuss the relationship between democracy and peace and what came first, democracy or peace. Melvyn Leffler, Jeremi Suri, and Vladimir O. Pechatnov take up the Cold War legacy as it relates to the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia. Odd Arne Westad reviews the relationship between the end of the Cold War and the end of the Third World. David Holloway and Olav Njølstad handle the role of nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War world. Paying special attention to the role of the old and new superpowers, with chapters on the United States (Jussi Hanhimäki), Russia (Vladislav Zubok), the European Union (Frédéric Bozo), and China (Michael Cox and Chen Jian.) The chapters see the United States and China as the leading powers, but differ considerably on the respective roles of the two leading powers. In the introduction, the editor, Geir Lundestad, discusses the post-Cold War years as a historical period compared to earlier periods in modern history; in the conclusion he speculates on what might be some dominant developments in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lundestad, Geir

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Geir Lundestad: Introduction: The Past

- The International Level

- 2: Stewart Patrick: The Evolving Structure of World Politics, 1991-2011

- 3: John Oneal: From Realism to the Liberal Peace: Twenty Years of Research on the Causes of War

- 4: John Mueller: War, Democracy, and Peace

- The Cold War Legacy

- 5: Melvyn P. Leffler: Victory: The 'State,' the 'West,' and the Cold War

- 6: Jeremi Suri: The United States and the Cold War: Four Ideas that Shaped the Late Twentieth Century

- 7: Vladimir O. Pechatnov: The Cold War and its Legacy

- 8: Odd Arne Westad: Two Finales: How the End of the Third World and the End of the Cold War are Linked

- The Role of Nuclear Weapons

- 9: David Holloway: Nuclear Weapons and International Relations since the End of the Cold War

- 10: Olav Njølstad: The Development of the Arms Race and How We Think About It

- Old and New Superpowers

- 11: Jussi M. Hanhimäki: Between Primacy and Decline: Redefining America's Role in the Post-Cold War World

- 12: Vladislav Zubok: Russia and the West: Twenty Difficult Years

- 13: Frédéric Bozo: The European Union at Twenty: Can Europe Be Saved?

- 14: Chen Jian: China's Prolonged Rise: Legitimacy Challenges and Dilemmas in the Reform and Opening-Up Era

- 15: Michael Cox: After the West? Towards a New International System?

- 16: Geir Lundestad: Conclusion: The Future

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geir Lundestad has been the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute since 1990 and a Professor of International History at the University of Oslo since 1991. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He has written several highly acclaimed books on international history in general and on US foreign policy in particular.