| Ordering the International: History, Change and Transformation Contributor(s): Brown, William (Editor), Bromley, Simon (Editor), Athreye, Suma (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0745321380 ISBN-13: 9780745321387 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: Making sense of today's international economic and political system is one of the most challenging tasks facing scholars, citizens and decision makers. Making the International is an innovative introductory text that enables the reader to develop a confident grasp of political and economic analysis. Focusing on core skills and concepts, the book analyzes key ideas in an integrated and cumulative way -- an approach that will enable readers to formulate their own critical standpoint about how the international system is made and in whose name it operates.Making the International is genuinely international in its coverage -- contributors from India, Mexico and Africa offer their perspectives alongside others from the USA and the European Union. The book is divided into five main sections: Trade and states compares the WTO's argument for the free market with the realities of developed and developing countries experience. Making state policy looks at how states maneuver within the constraints of the international trading system and at the resulting policies of industrialization, national development and liberalization. Inequality and power investigates the impact of policies of liberalized trade and investment, and the patterns of inequality within developing countries. Autonomy, sovereignty and macroeconomic policy examines the ability of states to pursue national policies of macroeconomic management in a highly internationalized political economy. International collective action uses prominent examples of the successes and failures of states to achieve collective action -- especially related to global climate change -- and how collective action could be developed in the future. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 320.9 |
| LCCN: 2005295992 |
| Series: World of Whose Making? |
| Physical Information: 1.53" H x 7.64" W x 10" (3.81 lbs) 656 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ordering the International is a new textbook which teaches the core themes of International Studies in an innovative way. It asks: - Can we analyse international order as a whole, and if so, how?- How can we best understand and explain the processes of international interaction and the kinds of order and disorder with which they are associated?- Is the contemporary international system changing and, if so, by whose agency?Ideal for students in International Studies, the book analyses the historical origins, evolution and transformation of three sectors of the modern international system: the political, the socio-cultural, and the economic-technological. Drawing on a combination of approaches and debates, it concludes by discussing theories of international order and contending claims about its transformation. Ordering the International will provide you with the knowledge and skills to understand, and participate in, key debates about the world in which we live. |