The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics 1989-1999 / edited by Michael Cox, Ken Booth, Tim Dunne, Foreword by Christopher J. Hill.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Cox, Michael, Booth, Ken, 1943-, Dunne, Tim, Hill, Christopher J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge books online.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Foreword ; Notes on contributors ; Introduction ; Historical Perspectives ; 1. The Rise and Fall of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective ; Introduction; Four theories in search of the Cold War; Building bridges; Bringing in process; End games: path dependency; The Cold War in comparative perspective; Test-Evaluate-Verify; And back to the empirical.
  • 2. History Ends, World Collide Introduction; An interregnum?; Liberalism triumphs; Liberal empire, democratic peace?; The end of history, or the end of a history?; Globalization and the clash of civilizations; Conclusion; 3. Globalization and National Governance: Antinomies or Interdependence? ; Why the fuss about globalization?; Does political interdependence curtail national policy autonomy?; Does economic globalization constrain national governance?; A new kind of state?
  • The critical role of state capacity in the Asian crisis: Korea and TaiwanConclusion; 4. Beyond Westphalia?: Capitalism after the 'Fall'; Capitalism and the meaning of Westphalia; Is the dominant process changing?; Is the dominant unit changing?; Is the nature of international society changing?; Two worlds: how will they relate?; Contending Visions ; 5. The Potentials of Enlightenment ; Introduction: the challenges of the 1990s; Reassessing the Enlightenment; Modernity and its contradictions; A century of crisis.
  • A radical modernity: CommunismThe limits of 'liberal democracy'; The failures of modernity: the international dimension; New critiques of modernity; The end of the Cold War: agency and progress; Conclusion; 6. Marxism after Communism ; Crawling from the wreckage; Transcending historicism; Transcending realism; The future of Marxism; 7. Liberalism Since the Cold War: An Enemy to Itself? ; The new interventionism; The international economy; The persistence of politics; The paradox of liberal power.
  • 8. Clausewitz Rules, OK? The Future is the Past-with GPSThe confessions of a neoclassical realist; The well of error never runs dry; Old fallacies rarely die: myths, probable myths, and half-truths; I fight, therefore I am human; On the lethality of optimism; 9. Mission Impossible? The IMF and the Failure of the Market Transition in Russia ; Introduction; In the beginning: 1991 and all that; The IMF takes the lead; The Cure; Democracy from above or Yeltsin rules-OK?; Capitalism in command?