Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question Reframed in the New Europe
Author: Rogers Brubaker
Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Rogers Brubaker develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties. He then analyzes contemporary nationalisms in historical and comparative perspective, tracing the parallels between the Eastern European nationalisms of today and those of the interwar period.
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Essentials of International Relations
Author: Karen A Mingst
Essentials of International Relations, available in a Third Edition, is widely recognized for its concise, lucid coverage of the fundamental topics of international political theory. Taking a balanced view of major theoretical approaches to international politics-including liberalism and realism, as well as Marxism, feminism, and constructivism-Professor Mingst provides the analytical tools students need to understand world political affairs at the individual, state, and international system levels. The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect recent global developments, and its brief format affords instructors the flexibility of customizing their curriculum using supplementary readings from the Norton Series in World Politics or other books. Concise but comprehensive, sophisticated yet accessible, Essentials of International Relations remains the premier-and most affordable-brief text in this dynamic field.
Table of Contents:
List of Maps | xi | |
Preface | xiii | |
1 | Approaches to International Relations | |
International Relations in Daily Life | 1 | |
Thinking Theoretically | 3 | |
Developing the Answers | 4 | |
Integrating the Answers | 11 | |
In Sum: Making Sense of International Relations | 13 | |
Where Do We Go from Here? | 14 | |
2 | The Historical Context of Contemporary International Relations | |
The Pre-Westphalian World | 18 | |
The Emergence of the Westphalian System | 25 | |
Europe in the Nineteenth Century | 28 | |
The Interwar Years and World War II | 35 | |
The Cold War | 38 | |
The Post-Cold War Era | 49 | |
In Sum: Learning from History | 53 | |
3 | Contending Perspectives: How to Think about International Relations Theoretically | |
Thinking Theoretically | 55 | |
Theory and the Levels of Analysis | 59 | |
Liberalism and Neoliberal Institutionalism | 62 | |
Realism and Neorealism | 65 | |
The Radical Perspective | 71 | |
Constructivism | 74 | |
Theory in Action: Analyzing the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War | 76 | |
In Sum: Seeing the World through Theoretical Lenses | 80 | |
4 | The International System | |
The Notion of a System | 83 | |
The International System according to Liberals | 84 | |
The International System according to Realists | 86 | |
The International System according to Radicals | 95 | |
Advantages and Disadvantages of the International System as a Level of Analysis | 96 | |
In Sum: From the International System to the State | 99 | |
5 | The State | |
The State and the Nation | 101 | |
Contending Conceptualizations of the State | 103 | |
The Nature of State Power | 108 | |
Using State Power | 112 | |
Models of Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking | 121 | |
Challenges to the State | 128 | |
In Sum: The State and Challenges Beyond | 133 | |
6 | The Individual | |
Foreign-Policy Elites: Individuals Who Matter | 137 | |
Private Individuals | 147 | |
Mass Publics | 150 | |
In Sum: How Much Do Individuals Matter? | 155 | |
7 | Intergovernmental Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and International Law | |
Intergovernmental Organizations | 159 | |
Nongovernmental Organizations | 180 | |
International Law | 185 | |
Realist Views of International Organization and Law | 191 | |
The Radical View of International Organization and Law | 192 | |
In Sum: Do Intergovernmental Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations, and International Law Make a Difference? | 194 | |
8 | War and Strife | |
The Causes of War | 198 | |
The Changing Character of Warfare and Its Instruments | 208 | |
The Just War Tradition | 217 | |
Approaches to Managing Insecurity | 218 | |
Other Threats to International Security | 228 | |
In Sum: International Security, Old and New | 229 | |
9 | International Political Economy | |
Contending Theoretical Approaches | 235 | |
Key Concepts in Liberal Economics | 242 | |
Power, Competition, and Development in the International Political Economy | 244 | |
The Role of Institutions in Managing Power, Competition, and Development | 256 | |
In Sum: Economic Convergence and Divergence | 269 | |
10 | Globalizing Issues | |
Health and Disease--Protecting Life in the Commons | 274 | |
The Environment--Protecting Space in the Global Commons | 280 | |
Human Rights--Protecting Human Dignity | 296 | |
The Impact of Globalizing Issues | 307 | |
Do Globalizing Issues Lead to Global Governance? | 311 | |
In Sum: Changing You | 313 | |
Glossary | 315 | |
Index | 325 |