Russett Purpose and Policy in the Global Community

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-137-10058-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis

Few topics are as important in the study of international relations as the causes of wealth and poverty, and their interaction with militarization. Few scholars have contributed more to understanding these issues than Bruce Russett. Here Russett shows the linkages between wealth and conflict both substantively and temporally.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russett, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: INTRODUCTION Change and Continuity: Four Decades of Research and Policy Rich and Poor in 2000 A.D.: The Great Gulf PART II: CONSEQUENCES OF WEALTH AND POVERTY The Marginal Utility of Income Transfers to the Third World Comparative Public Health: The Political Economy of Human Misery and Well-Being; with H.Ghobarah & P.Huth Conflict and Coercion in Dependent States; with S.Jackson, D.Snidal & D.Sylvan Islam, Authoritarianism, and Female Empowerment: What Are the Linkages?; with D.Donno Defense Expenditures and National Well-Being The Mysterious Case of Vanishing Hegemony, or, Is Mark Twain Really Dead? PART III: A DEMOCRATIC HEGEMON? Theater Nuclear Forces: Public Opinion in Western Europe; with D.DeLuca Away from Nuclear Mythology What Makes Deterrence Work? Cases from 1900 to 1980; with P.Huth Ethical Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence Seeking Peace in the post-Cold War World of Hegemony and Terrorism; with J. R. Oneal A Fourth Wave? The Role of International Actors in Democratization

Über Autor(innen)

BRUCE RUSSETT is Professor of Political Science at Yale University, USA, Editor of the
Journal of Conflict Resolution
and author of many books and hundreds of articles.