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Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Spanish, Dutch and the First and Second British world orders. It identifies their common features in order to find the most salient causes for their rise as world powers, and the most probable reasons for their decline. The second half of the book addresses the American world order in the 20th century, from Pax Americana to the End of US Hegemony. The author sees the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of the US as evidence of the role played by normative dimensions, commonly underestimated in International Relations analysis. Theoretically challenging, Knutsen's volume provides a fresh approach to debates in international relations aimed at both students and scholars. -- .
Torbjorn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations
expressed by thinkers from the High Middle Ages to the present day
and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace,
wealth and power. The book counters the view that international
relations has no theoretical tradition and shows that scholars,
soldiers and statesmen have been speculating about the subject for
the last 700 years. Beginning with the roots of the state and the
concept of sovereignty in the Middle Ages, the author draws upon
the insights of outstanding political thinkers - from Machiavelli
and Hobbes to Hegel, Rousseau, and Marx and contemporary thinkers
such as Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Morgenthau and Walt - who profoundly
influenced the emergence of a discrete discipline of International
Relations in the twentieth century. Fully revised and updated, the
final section embraces more recent approaches to the study of
international relations, most notably postmodernism and
ecologism.
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