Great Powers and International Hierarchy

• Main Author: McCormack, Daniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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 pow...

Table of Contents:

• 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.