International Order and the Future of World Politics

by Edited by T. V. Paul , John A. Hall

• ISBN13: 9780521658324
• ISBN10: 0521658322
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this volume distinguished scholars from different social science disciplines assess the emerging international order. The volume's three sections examine theories and strategies of order; the prospects of the major likely contenders for world leadership (the United States, Russia, China, the European Union, Japan and India); and the challenges to world order, including globalization, nationalism, ethnic and religious conflict, environmental degradation, and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. This book thus offers a comprehensive account of the prospects for a peaceful and just international order in the next century.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vii
List of contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(16)
John A. Hall
T. V. Paul
Part I: Theories and strategies	17	(104)
A realist view: three images of the coming international order	19	(22)
Michael Mastanduno
A liberal view: preserving and expanding the liberal pacific union	41	(26)
Michael W. Doyle
Preconditions for prudence: a sociological synthesis of realism and liberalism	67	(11)
John A. Hall
T. V. Paul
An institutionalist view: international institutions and state strategies	78	(21)
Lisa L. Martin
Is the truth out there? Eight questions about international order	99	(22)
Steve Smith
Part II: Contenders: major powers and international order	121	(114)
Liberal hegemony and the future of American postwar order	123	(23)
G. John Ikenberry
Russia: responses to relative decline	146	(9)
Jack Snyder
The European Union: economic giant, political dwarf	155	(23)
Juan Diez Medrano
Unsteady anticipation: reflections on the future of Japan's changing political economy	178	(19)
T. J. Pempel
Chinese perspectives on world order	197	(16)
Steve Chan
India as a limited challenger?	213	(22)
Baldev Raj Nayar
Part III: Challenges	235	(158)
Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state?	237	(25)
Michael Mann
Stateless nations and the emerging international order	262	(21)
Hudson Meadwell
The coming chaos? Armed conflict in the world's periphery	283	(28)
K. J. Holsti
Political religion in the twenty-first century	311	(17)
Peter Van Der Veer
Environmental security in the coming century	328	(24)
Karen T. Litfin
Demography, domestic conflict, and the international order	352	(21)
Jack A. Goldstone
Great equalizers or agents of chaos? Weapons of mass destruction and the emerging international order	373	(20)
T. V. Paul
Part IV: Conclusions	393	(16)
The state and the future of world politics	395	(14)
John A. Hall
T. V. Paul
Index	409