A World of Polities: Essays on Global Politics

Yale H. Ferguson · Richard W. Mansbach

માર્ચ 2008 · Routledge

આ ઇ-પુસ્તક વિશે

Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach have made a significant contribution to our contemporary understanding of global politics. This collection contains some of their classic essays and many unpublished articles which have been edited into a coherent and stimulating collection.

Subjects covered include:

• Theory and method in global politics
• The role of values and the postmodern challenge
• The complex roles of actors in global politics
• 9/11 and its aftermath
• The changing nature of war
• US unilateralism, hegemony and empire.

લેખક વિશે

Yale H. Ferguson is Co-Director and Professor, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University-Newark.and Honorary Professor, University of Salzburg, Austria. He is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the University of Padova, as well as Fulbright Professor at Salzburg.

Richard W. Mansbach served as political science chair at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Iowa State University and is currently Professor of Political Science at ISU. Formerly a Marshall Scholar, he has received three Fulbright fellowships – to Singapore, Seoul, and Vienna.

Books Ferguson and Mansbach have co-authored are The Web of Global
Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System (1976), The Elusive Quest:
Theory and International Politics (1989), The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of International Relations Theory (1989), Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change (1996), The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (2003), and Remapping Global Politics: History’s Revenge and Future Shock (2004).