The Waves of Time
Long-term Change and International Relations
K. R. Dark(Author)
Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85567-402-8 (ISBN)
Description
Since the end of the Cold War, analysts of international politics have been focusing far greater attention on issues of change. In the course of these analyses, it has become increasingly clear to specialists - from many contrasting viewpoints - that any understanding of large-scale political change must encompass far longer timescales than has been usual in the study of world politics, and has to incorporate a multi-disciplinary perspective. This is the first book offering an overview of the whole range of long term analyses in international relations, it evaluates and draws on relevant theoretical approaches both in other humanities and social sciences - such as sociology, history, anthropology and archaeology - and recent progress in evolutionary theory and the mathematical study of complexity. Introducing new approaches and a new spistemological framework, a new theory of long-term world political change is set out, building on the strengths of previous studies.
This is then applied to the latest available historical, archaeological and anthropological data for changing forms of political organizations, ranging from the earliest human societies to the fast-changing world of the late twentieth century. The resulting analysis is a reinterpretation of the process of global political change in the past and in the present, which both support and challenges perspectives based on other forms of analysis and opens new areas of enquiry for international relations.
This is then applied to the latest available historical, archaeological and anthropological data for changing forms of political organizations, ranging from the earliest human societies to the fast-changing world of the late twentieth century. The resulting analysis is a reinterpretation of the process of global political change in the past and in the present, which both support and challenges perspectives based on other forms of analysis and opens new areas of enquiry for international relations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
569 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-402-8 (9781855674028)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Beyond the horizon: theories of long-term change in international relations; how times change: the interdisciplinary context; making history: shared perspectives and shared problems in the study of long-term change; the waves of time? a new model of the long-term change of international political systems; the origins of international relations: non-state societies; cyclical states: the long-term dynamics of socio-political systems in the age of the state; volatile networks? socio-political dynamics in the age of the global systems.