Realism and World Politics

historians. But, Eckstein then goes on to reiterate Waltz’s much bolder claim, arguing if realist theory can be shown to be vali ...

10 Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States AD990–1990(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990) 11 Hendrik Spruyt, The Soveign ...

However, our figure is in line with Watson’s view of hegemony representing the norm position in international relations. 28 See ...

48 Teschke, Myth of 1648, p. 2. 49 Barry Buzan and Richard Little ‘Why international relations has failed as an intellectual pro ...

18 HUMAN INTERCONNECTEDNESS 1 Andrew Linklater Waltz’s structural realist perspective contains the most impressive defence of th ...

interdependence have long outpaced the growth of cosmopolitan attunement to the needs and interests of other people. As a result ...

the species from the earliest small-scale societies to the global web of economic and social relations that was appearing in the ...

modernist, Eurocentric worldviews to more detached viewpoints, those approaches reject narratives that describe history as a pro ...

The parallels between neorealism and process sociology are relevant to the thesis that International Relations has failed as an ...

state-formation – both ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ (where societies felt they had to try emulate the pacemakers in their region if ...

bearings during periods of unsettling and unpredictable change in which people found themselves flung together and bound to othe ...

compliance occurred almost ‘instinctively’ – without agents hesitating to consider alternative courses of action, or estimating ...

global integration.^39 He stressed that the universal human rights culture indicates that the scope of emotional identification ...

avoidable harm and suffering. No less important is whether different cultures can find common ground in a grand narrative that h ...

each other, in their course of living everyday life often underpins a sense of urgency about assuming the roles and responsibili ...

the efforts that most people make to live as long as possible with minimum suffering.^57 There is no obvious need to look elsewh ...

New principles of cosmopolitan legitimacy Such sensibilities are central to ‘transnational advocacy networks’ which may enjoy mo ...

sociologists into the present’. Elias (2000: postscript) was hostile to efforts to explain long-term processes in terms of immut ...

and Yale Ferguson, Polities: Authorities, Identities and Change(Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996). Third, ...

of violence. Destructive masculinities gained the historical initiative as a result of the tensions between ‘tributary states’ a ...