Rethinking power, institutions and ideas in world politics : whose IR? / Amitav Acharya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acharya, Amitav

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

World politics.

Physical Description:

vi, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"In this collection of work by renowned scholar Amitav Acharya, Acharya draws on extensive research from throughout his career and examines the dominant understandings of three of the most important theoretical concepts used by scholars of world politics: power, institutions and ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I IR theory and its discontents 21

1 International relations theories and Western dominance: reassessing the foundations of international order 23

2 Dialogue and discovery: in search of international relations theories beyond the West 44

3 Comparative regionalism: a field whose time has come? 74

Part II Power, intervention and global disorders 87

4 The Cold War as "long peace" revisited 89

5 State sovereignty after 9/11: disorganized hypocrisy 116

Part III Institutions, autonomy and regional orders 139

6 Multilateralism: beyond hegemony and without victory 141

7 The contested regional architecture of world politics 159

Part IV Ideas, agency and normative cultures 181

8 How ideas spread: whose norms matter? Norm localization and institutional change in Asian regionalism 183

9 Norm subsidiarity and regional orders: sovereignty, regionalism and rule-making in the Third World 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415706759

0415706750

9780415706742

0415706742

9781315885346

1315885344

OCLC:

843079015