Bøger af Yale H. Ferguson

Applies the concept of space to international relations to arrive at novel interpretations.

A collection of essays and articles. It covers: Theory and method in global politics; the role of values and the postmodern challenge; the complex roles of actors in global politics 9/11 and its aftermath; and, the changing nature of war US unilateralism, hegemony and empire.

This book seeks to redraw our mental maps of global politics and to explain the shifting and accelerating forces that are shaping those maps. The authors build on the concept of 'post-internationalism', focusing primarily on 'political space' and 'political identity' which, they argue, are the new frontiers of global political theory. They suggest that the state is losing capacity, legitimacy and authority to remain the primary actor in world affairs and is giving way to a more complex post-international universe characterized by diverse and overlapping polities. This book is the result of the authors' long-standing joint research into the nature and dynamics of global politics, a collaboration that has spanned over three decades. It makes an important contribution to the literatures on globalization and the future of international relations theory.

This text seeks to offer an alternative way of thinking about relations among polities. It attempts to shift the discipline's traditional focus from a world of territorially bounded sovereign states to an ever-changing variety of politically functioning collectives.