Great Powers and World Order

1st Edition

Patterns and Prospects

Charles W. Kegley; Gregory A. Raymond
eISBN-13: 9781544358741

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Great Powers and World Order encourages critical thinking about the nature of world order by presenting the historical information and theoretical concepts needed to make projections about the global future.  Charles W. Kegley and Gregory Raymond ask students to compare retrospective cases and formulate their own hypotheses about not only the causes of war, but also the consequences of peace settlements. Historical case studies open a window to see what strategies for constructing world order were tried before, why one course of action was chosen over another, and how things turned out. By moving back and forth in each case study between history and theory, rather than treating them as separate topics, the authors hope to situate the assumptions, causal claims, and policy prescriptions of different schools of thought within the temporal domains in which they took root, giving the reader a better sense of why policy makers embraced a particular view of world order instead of an alternative vision.<br/> <br/> <br/>

ISBNs 1544358741, 9781544345833, 9781544358741, 9781544345833
Language English
Number of Pages 264
Edition 1st