Theory and Reality of International Politics

by Mouritzen, Hans

• ISBN13: 9781855219939
• ISBN10: 185521993X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Dartmouth Pub Co

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii	(1)
List of Abbreviations	viii	(1)
Preface	ix
1 Introduction	1	(4)
2 The Argument	5	(14)
Levels of Explanation	5	(2)
International Politics: Anarchy and States' Non-Mobility	7	(4)
Spatial Heterogeneity vs. Temporal Homogeneity	11	(2)
Why State the Obvious?	13	(1)
Modifications and Counter-Modifications	14	(5)
3 IR Theory: A Critical Evaluation	19	(12)
Literature on Explanatory Levels	19	(3)
`Comparative Foreign Policy' and Small State Research	22	(2)
The Theory of Kenneth Waltz	24	(4)
From Bipolarity to Post-Bipolarity	28	(3)
4 The Preferred Mode of Explanation: A Further Presentation	31	(12)
Explanatory Logic and Level	31	(2)
Salient Environment and Polarity	33	(3)
Environment Polarities: Illustrations	36	(2)
European Heterogeneities 1989-94: From the Hague to Kiev	38	(5)
5 Testing Theories	43	(38)
Tension between the Strong and the Strategy of the Weak	43	(7)
Balancing vs. Bandwagoning: Testing Balance-of-Power Theory	50	(14)
Nordic Engagements vis a vis the Baltic Countries: A Geopolitical Approach	64	(17)
6 Salient Environment and Domestic Explanatory Factors: The Nature of the Interplay	81	(16)
Levels of Explanation: Complementarism vs. Supplementarism	81	(1)
The House on Fire	82	(2)
External Danger/Internal Cohesion-Centralization	84	(6)
Non-Mobility Revisited	90	(3)
Control, Relax, Guide	93	(1)
Inertia and Foreign Policy Lessons	94	(1)
The Role of Internal Factors in Theory-Building	95	(2)
7 Two Illustrations of Interplay	97	(16)
Learning within Geopolitical Parameters: Alliance Policy from Helsinki to Warsaw	97	(6)
European Integration and National Bandwagoning 1989-94: Facing a Pole of Attraction	103	(10)
8 The Role of International Organizations	113	(24)
IGOs: The Control-Relax Mechanism Reapplied	113	(13)
IGOs as State Instruments	126	(4)
Control-Relax and Theories of European Integration	130	(7)
9 Theory and Reality of International Politics	137	(22)
Conclusions	137	(4)
Critical Rationalism and its Realism	141	(10)
Complementarism vs. Supplementarism Revisited	151	(2)
IR Schools: Why Bother?	153	(6)
Bibliography	159	(10)
Index	169