| Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalisation Contributor(s): Ruggie, John Gerard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415099919 ISBN-13: 9780415099912 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: For the past quarter century, John Gerard Ruggie has made fundamental contributions to international relations theorizing, helping to establish what is now described as the "constructivist" approach to the field. This elegantly written collection of essays includes a substantial introduction that surveys the entire range of post-war IR theory and sets the constructivist project within it. Ruggie brings together his most influential theoretical ideas and their application to critical policy questions concerning the post-Cold War international order. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Essays - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 327.101 |
| LCCN: 98192711 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Series: New International Relations |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.19" W x 9.21" (1.14 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new introduction, and comprehensive connective sections, present Ruggie's ideas and their application to critical policy questions of the post-Cold War international order. Themes covered include: * International Organization. How the 'new Institutionalism' differs from the old. * The System of States. Explorations of political structure, social time, and territorial space in the world polity. * Making History. America and the issue of 'agency' in the post-Cold Was era. NATO and the future transatlantic security community. The United Nations and the collective use of force. |