Nye J.S. Jr. Propaganda Isn't the Way: Soft Power

Rputledge, London and New York, 2008. 248 p. This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case studies, each of which throws light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. The point of departure for this book is Paul Kennedy’s 1988 masterpiece, The Rise and...

12 p. ‘State failure’ assumes all states are constituted and function in the same way: on a spectrum from good to bad. Yet the relevant question is not ‘Is the state failing? ’ but ‘For whom is the state failing, and how? ’ This captures the fact that different actors within the state have different interests; what is good for some – informalised power structures that enable elite consolidation of power and profit – may not be good for ordinary...

Third edition 2005 Published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 294 p. Introduction: Defining International Relations. Perspectives and theories. Conclusion. The Development of International Relations. Theory in the Twentieth Century. ntroduction. Liberal internationalism and the origins of the discipline. The ‘realist’ critique of liberal internationalism. The post-war synthesis. nternational Relations and the behavioural sciences. Challenges to the realis...

Basic Books 1998. 109 pages. EVER SINCE THE CONTINENTS started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power. In different ways, at different times, the peoples inhabiting Eurasia—though mostly those from its Western European periphery—penetrated and dominated the world's other regions as individual Eurasian states attained the special status and enjoyed the privileges of being the world's premie...

L.: Macmilan, 1946. Selections from chapter 11 Military Power Potential war being thus a dominant factor in international politics, military strength becomes a recognized standard of political values. Every great civilization of the past has enjoyed in its day a superiority of military power.

Routledge, London and New York, 1996. 302 p. Cassels traces the part played by ideology in international relations over the past two centuries. Starting with the French Revolution’s injection of ideology into interstate politics, he finishes by addressing present-day preoccupations with the legacy of nationalist discontent left by the collapse of communism and the resurgence of religious fundamentalism in world politics. Cassels includes discuss...

Gray, Colin S. Hard Power and Soft Power: The Utility of Military Force as an Instrument of Policy in the 21st Century (Strategic Studies Institute 2011 - 72 p. ) Power is one of the more contestable concepts in political theory. In recent decades, scholars and commentators have chosen to distinguish between two kinds of power, hard and soft. The former is achieved through military threat or use, and by means of economic menace or reward. The l...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 228 p. "Temptations of Power" examines the new security dilemma that confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved for the first time on 9/11 that they could seriously wound even the greatest of military powers on its own soil. The authors argue that the response was influenced by neo-conservative exaggeration of the efficacy of military power and belief in the US ability to change the world. Jackson and Towle advoca...

Stanford University Press, 2004. 384 p. Since the 16th century, balance of power politics have profoundly influenced international relations. But in recent years—with the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, growing power of the United States, and increasing prominence of international institutions—many scholars have argued that balance of power theory is losing its relevance. This book examines the current position and future of balance of...

Rosenau J. N. , Durfee M. Thinking Theory Thoroughly: Coherent Approaches to Incoherent World. – Boulder-San Francisco-Oxford: Westview Press, 1995. (Selections from chapter 2) System Polarity Attributes of the Balance of Power Operation of the Balance of Power in Two Types of Polarity