Dynamics among nations : the evolution of legitimacy and development in modern states /

"Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In this book, Hilton Root argues that international relations, like other complex ecosystems, exists in a constantly shifting landsc...

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Main Author: Root, Hilton L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781461950349
1461950341
9780262318266
0262318261
1306091152
9781306091152
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Post-globalization: complexity in the governance of a networked global society
  • Opening the doors of complexity
  • Economic incentives and the replication of social complexity
  • Coevolution versus liberal internationalism
  • Promises and pitfalls of new institutional economics
  • Dancing landscapes: how interdependency shapes the optimization challenge of globalization
  • Accelerators of "stateness:: system structure and network behavior in the making of the modern state
  • Democracy's hybrid architecture
  • Achieving state capacity: parallel political modernization in China and Europe
  • Does China challenge the global legitimacy of liberalism?
  • No captain at the helm.