Unipolar Politics

by Kapstein, Ethan B.

• ISBN13: 9780231113090
• ISBN10: 0231113099
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Unipolar Politicsbrings together prominent scholars in international relations to analyze the decisions that major powers have made since the Cold War to adapt to a rapidly changing economic and security environment.The book points to powerful evidence that nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States in most respects, while still trying to maintain some independence of action in the event that America becomes isolationist, antagonistic, or simply uninterested in a particular regional crisis. Meanwhile the United States is being pulled in different directions by its own economic and security requirements, leading to policy contradictions that must be resolved if the "unipolar" moment is to endure.The authors acknowledge that, while great power wars are now unlikely, positional conflicts over resources and markets still remain, and may even be strengthening.

Author Biography

Ethan Kapstein is the Stassen Professor of International Peace in the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Michael Mastanduno is Professor of Government and Director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. Randall Schweller is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. Jonathan Kirshner is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. Daniel Deudney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. John Ikenberry is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eric Heginbotham is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nell MacFarlane is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Iain Johnston is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. Joseph Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Michael Loriaux is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Mark Kramer is a Research Associate at the Shelby Cullom Davis Russian Research Center at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Realism and State Strategies After the Cold War	p. 1
Realism and the Present Great Power System: Growth and Positional Conflict Over Scarce Resources	p. 28
The Political Economy of Realism	p. 69
Realism, Structural Liberalism, and the Western Order	p. 103
Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S. Grand Strategy After the Cold War	p. 138
Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy	p. 182
Realism and Russian Strategy after the Collapse of the USSR	p. 218
Realism(s) and Chinese Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Period	p. 261
Realism and Regionalism: American Power and German and Japanese Instituional Strategies During and After the Cold War	p. 319
Realism and Reconciliation: France, Germany, and the European Union	p. 354
Neorealism, Nuclear Proliferation, and East-Central European Strategies	p. 385
Does Unipolarity Have a Future?	p. 464
Index	p. 491
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