Regional Orders at Century's Dawn

by Solingen, Etel

• ISBN13: 9780691058801
• ISBN10: 0691058806
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-24
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Etel Solingen provides a comprehensive explanation of foreign policy based on how states throughout the world have confronted the rapid emergence of a global economy and international institutions. A major advance in international relations theory,Regional Orders at Century's Dawnskillfully uses a key issue--internationalization--to clarify other recent debates, from the notion of a democratic peace to the relevance of security dilemmas, nationalism, and the impact of international institutions. The author discusses in rich detail the Middle East, Latin America's Southern Cone, and the Korean peninsula, and builds on examples drawn from almost every other region of the world. As Solingen demonstrates, economic liberalization--with its dramatic political and economic consequences--invariably attracts supporters and detractors, who join in coalitions to advance their agendas. Each coalition's agenda, or "grand strategy," has consequences at all levels: domestic, regional, and international. At home, coalitions struggle to define the internal allocation and management of resources, and to undermine their rivals. Throughout their regional neighborhoods, coalitions opposing internationalization often compete for dominance, sometimes militarily. Coalitions favoring internationalization, instead, often cooperate. At the global level, each coalition finds support for its "grand strategies" from different international institutions and from competing global economic trends. Solingen's concept of "grand strategy" proposes more than a theory of foreign policy and explains the role of nationalism and ethno-religious revivalism in the politics of liberalization.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Preface
The Theory	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Internationalization and Political Coalitions	p. 18
Coalitions, Strategic Interaction, and Regional Outcomes	p. 62
Economic Liberalization, Coalitions, and the Democratic Peace	p. 90
The Empirics	p. 117
The Southern Cone: Argentina and Brazil	p. 119
The Middle East	p. 165
The Korean Peninsula	p. 216
Implications	p. 255
Theory and Policy: An Agenda	p. 257
References	p. 291
Index	p. 323
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