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International relations --- World politics --- #SBIB:327H01 --- Internationale betrekkingen: encyclopedieën, woordenboeken, atlassen --- 327 --- Internationale politiek --- #SBIB:327.1H10 --- Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën --- International relations. Foreign policy

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War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential growth of power in the international system and the result of this unevenness. A shift in the balance of power - economic or military - weakens the foundations of the existing system, because those gaining power see the increasing benefits and the decreasing cost of changing the system. The result, maintains Gilpin, is that actors seek to alter the system through territorial, political, or economic expansion until the marginal costs of continuing change are greater than the marginal benefits. When states develop the power to change the system according to their interests they will strive to do so- either by increasing economic efficiency and maximizing mutual gain, or by redistributing wealth and power in their own favour.

Social change --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- International relations --- Research. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Relations internationales --- Recherche --- #SBIB:327.1H10 --- Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën --- VIE INTERNATIONALE --- THEORIES ET MODELES --- ACTEURS --- ELUS --- FACTEURS --- ENJEUX --- PAIX --- GUERRE

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Realism is commonly portrayed as theory that reduces international relations to pure power politics. Michael Williams provides an important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance for contemporary international relations. Examining three thinkers commonly invoked as Realism's foremost proponents - Hobbes, Rousseau, and Morgenthau - the book shows that, far from advocating a crude realpolitik, Realism's most famous classical proponents actually stressed the need for a restrained exercise of power and a politics with ethics at its core. These ideas are more relevant than ever at a time when the nature of responsible responses to international problems are at the centre of contemporary political debate. This original interpretation of major thinkers will interest scholars of international relations and the history of ideas.

International relations --- Realism. --- Relations internationales --- Réalisme --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Realism --- Philosophy --- #SBIB:327.1H10 --- Empiricism --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Nominalism --- Positivism --- Rationalism --- Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- International relations - Philosophy

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"The relationship between trade and the environment has become an increasingly contentious issue between economists and environmentalists. Economists maintain that trade helps the natural environment because rich countries can better afford to protect their unspoiled areas. Environmentalists counter that the pursuit of national wealth drives global environmental degradation and that free trade accelerates the process." "Instead of arguing one side or the other, this book uses new analytic methods, including a systems dynamics model, to seek an answer to the impasse. Using lateral pressure theory to account for politics within and among nations, it extends the theory's initial application (which was to explain the onset of war) to the environment by specifying additional connections between the natural and social spheres. In making explicit the complex causal connections between world trade and environmental degradation, the book finds that GNP increases in the rich, developed countries are linked to deforestation in the poorer, developing countries. It also uses insights derived from this finding to critique current trade policy prescriptions."--Jacket.

International trade --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- International Commerce --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- #SBIB:327.1H10 --- #SBIB:33H071 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën --- Economische internationale betrekkingen --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening

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'European Integration' outlines in empirical detail the mysteries and paradoxes of European integration. It challenges the convention of studying individual aspects of EU policymaking in isolation from the wider whole and situates the EU within the broader conceptual universe of the changing nature of the state in Europe.

Political sociology --- European Union --- European Union countries --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Economic integration --- Intégration économique --- #SBIB:327.7H201 --- #SBIB:327.1H10 --- 822.5 Europese Unie --- Europese Unie: politieke theorie --- Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Intégration économique --- European Union. --- Europe --- Economic integration. --- E.U.