Great Powers and International Hierarchy

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: McCormack, Daniel (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: International relations.; Security, International.; International organization.; World politics.; Comparative politics.; International Relations Theory.; International Security Studies.; International Organization.; Political History.; Comparative Politics.

 Hierarchical relationships-rules that structure both international and domestic politics-are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements both respond to domestic politics within weak states and structure the specific forms that hierarchy takes. Second, it deduces three sets of hypotheses about hierarchy maintenance, construction, and collapse during the post-war era. By offering a coherent theoretical model of hierarchical politics within weaker states, the author is able to answer a number of important questions, including: Why does the United States often ally with autocratic states even though its most enduring relationships are with democracies? Why do autocratic hierarchical relationships require interstate coercion? Why do some hierarchies end violently and others peacefully? Why does hierarchical competition sometimes lead to interstate conflict and sometimes to civil conflict? Daniel McCormack was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His current research focuses on political violence in America. 

 1. Introduction -- 2. Structural Analogies in International Relations -- 3. Hierarchy Throughout History -- 4. The Shifting Territorial Logic of Hierarchy -- 5. Maintaining Hierarchy -- 6. Extending Hierarchy -- 7. Eclipsing Hierarchy -- 8. Conclusion: Hierarchy and Political Violence in the International System.