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  • Dictating the Agenda

    The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

    This is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded US-backed liberalism such global prominence. Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Great Games, Local Rules

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Exit from Hegemony

    The Unraveling of the American Global Order

    We live in a period of great uncertainty about the fate of America's global leadership. Many believe that Donald Trump's presidency marks the end of liberal international order-the very system of global institutions, rules, and values that shaped the American international system since the end of World War II. Trump's repeated rejection of liberal order, criticisms of long-term allies of the US, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Great Games, Local Rules:The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of the volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching from Iran through Pakistan ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Base Politics

    Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas

    According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense has been moving from a few large-footprint bases to smaller and much more numerous bases across the globe. This so-called lily-pad strategy, designed ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Undermining American Hegemony

    Goods Substitution in World Politics

    Advancing a new approach to the study of international order, this book highlights the stakes disguised by traditional theoretical languages of power transitions and hegemonic wars. Rather than direct challenges to US military power, the most consequential undermining of hegemony is routine, bottom-up processes of international goods substitution: a slow hollowing out of the existing order through ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Contracting States

    Sovereign Transfers in International Relations

    Increasingly today nation-states are entering into agreements that involve the sharing or surrendering of parts of their sovereign powers and often leave the cession of authority incomplete or vague. But until now, we have known surprisingly little about how international actors design and implement these mixed-sovereignty arrangements. Contracting States uses the concept of "incomplete contracts" ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Ranking the World

    Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance

    Edited by Alexander Cooley, Jack Snyder ...
    Over the last decade, international rankings have emerged as a critical tool used by international actors engaged in global governance. State practices and performance are now judged by a number of high-profile indices, including assessments of their levels of corruption, quality of democracy, creditworthiness, media freedom, and business environment. However, these rankings always carry value ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Logics of Hierarchy

    The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations

    Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Dictating the Agenda

    The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracies, and it seemed that authoritarianism as a political model was fading. But as recent events have shown, things have clearly changed.In Dictating the Agenda, authors Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal how ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet

    The New Geopolitics of Energy

    From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of powerRecently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress amidst hysterical warnings of a Communist threat. But the political grandstanding missed a larger point ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century

    The Revival of Economic Statecraft

    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice.States increasingly practice power politics by economic means. Whether it is about Iran’s nuclear programme or Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Western ... Read more

    $62.99 USD