Titlebook: Contending Images of World Politics; Greg Fry (Hedley Bull Fellow and Director of Studi Textbook 2000Latest edition The Editor(s) (if appl

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Contending Images of World Politics: An Introduction in which ideological struggle was coming to an end, and in which perpetual peace among the liberal democracies was in prospect, was the opening gambit in a debate about the essential features of the post-Cold War world that continued throughout the 1990s and is still with us as we contemplate the n

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‘Back to the Future’?ed by John Mearsheimer and others, represents current and future world orders as little more than historical .. Or, in Martin Wight’s terms, it represents a pessimistic image of global life beset by the ‘recurrence and repetition’ of an inter-state arena in which effectively unbridled egoism and str

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An ‘International Society’?at a society of states or international society does actually exist. Indeed, the assumption that there is such a thing is implicit in much of the everyday discussion of world affairs. It underpins the idea of an ‘international community’, with ‘society’ and ‘community’ often being used interchangeab

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A ‘Borderless World’?d (Ohmae, 1990). Their central argument is that the organization of production and exchange, in the contemporary world, pays little attention to borders of states since both have now ‘shifted’ to global forms (Dicken, 1992). Corporations base various elements of production at a number of sites aroun

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A ‘New Medievalism’?sential quality of world order seemed to rest upon a structure of anarchy that had been formalized in the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 at the conclusion of the Thirty Years’ War, which had such a draining, and apparently traumatizing, effect on the European powers of the day. Continuing to rely upon

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A ‘Coming Age of Regionalism’?e argued that it was the single image of the future that had the virtue of relating significantly to ‘the other major dynamic forces’ shaping global society. The outcome of such forces would, in the worst case, be ‘fragmentation, violence and stagnation’. To manage these forces in an age when the ca