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indication of what is required to address it. Its intent is not to create any new distribution of power that will constrain the ...

rules of the international system’.^94 Instead, it argues that the most appropriate theoretical departure point is that already ...

Notes 1 This chapter has been written as part of the author’s ESRC Professorial Fellowship and he is indebted to the UK ESRC for ...

21 Dunne, ‘Society and hierarchy’, p. 304. 22 Dunne, ‘Society and hierarchy’, p. 304. 23 Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of Internation ...

International Organization, 53 (2), 1999, pp. 379–408; Hurd, After Anarchy; Clark, Legitimacy, pp. 15–17. 52 H. Kissinger, A Wor ...

University of Minnesota Press, 1993); S. Gill (ed.), Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations(Cambridge: Camb ...

17 WALTZ AND WORLD HISTORY The paradox of parsimony Barry Buzan and Richard Little Waltz’s Theory of International Politics (TIP ...

TIPwhere he argued that the theory is so broad-brushed that it cannot even identify the most important structural change that ha ...

that they are functionally undifferentiated by which he means that they are ‘alike in the tasks that they face, though not in th ...

Afurther problem with Waltz’s conception of units has been extensively investigated by Ferguson and Mansbach, who insist that th ...

independently in their own right. So, although Waltz insists that we need a theory of international politics, he presumably acce ...

a structure but a process that reflects uneven development across Europe over several centuries. Rosenberg, therefore, is seen t ...

void the process of balancing, a key component of his theory (more on this below).^26 On the other hand, he allows that anarchy ...

represents one end of a spectrum. At the other end lies ‘empire’ where independent communities are directly administered from an ...

Before leaving this topic, it is essential to flag the constructivist challenge to Waltz’s conception of structure. Constructivi ...

in TIPand has never worked out systematically the implications of his framework for a unipolar system. Instead, he simply assume ...

establishes a sharp contrast between this ‘cooperative’ dynastic balancing process and the attempt by the great powers in the ni ...

Segmentary(or egalitarian) differentiation is where every social subsystem is the equal of, and functionally similar to every o ...

version, this differentiation theory restores the full meaning of functional differ- entiation and offers powerful insights into ...

particularly the decision to tie a primary turning point to 1500 CE, defined in terms of an emerging global system. On the one h ...