After hegemony : cooperation and discord in the world political economy / Robert O. Keohane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keohane, Robert O., author.

Series:

Princeton classic editions.

A Princeton classic edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

World politics--1945-1989.

Hegemony.

Economics.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st Princeton classic ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes," through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American hegemony has eroded. Refuting the idea that the decline of hegemony makes cooperation impossible, he views international regimes not as weak substitutes for world government but as devices for facilitating decentralized cooperation among egoistic actors. In the preface the author addresses the issue of cooperation after the end of the Soviet empire and with the renewed dominance of the United States, in security matters, as well as recent scholarship on cooperation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PART I: Questions and Concepts

1. REALISM, INSTITUTIONALISM, AND COOPERATION

2. POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

3. HEGEMONY IN THE WORLD POLITICAL ECONOMY

PART II: Theories of Cooperation and International Regimes

4. COOPERATION AND INTERNATIONAL REGIMES

5. RATIONAL-CHOICE AND FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS

6. A FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL REGIMES

7. BOUNDED RATIONALITY AND REDEFINITIONS OF SELF-INTEREST

PART III: Hegemony and Cooperation in Practice

8. HEGEMONIC COOPERATION IN THE POSTWAR ERA

9. THE INCOMPLETE DECLINE OF HEGEMONIC REGIMES

10. THE CONSUMERS' OIL REGIME, 1974-81

PART IV: Conclusion

11. THE VALUE OF INSTITUTIONS AND THE COSTS OF FLEXIBILITY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-279) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9786612751448

9781282751446

1282751441

9781400820269

140082026X

OCLC:

665581422