Power in world politics /

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Power in world politics / edited by Felix Berenskoetter and M. J. Williams. - New York : Routledge,2007 2007. - 316p.; 24cm.

distributer: Baccah

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking about power / Felix Berenskoetter -- The concept of power : a constructivist analysis / Stefano Guzzini -- Realist conceptions of power / Brian C. Schmidt -- Structural realism and the problem of polarity and war / Joseph M. Grieco -- Power and the battle for hearts and minds : on the bluntness of soft power / Steven Lukes -- Why "soft power" isn't so soft : representational force and attraction in world politics / Janice Bially Mattern -- The power of persuasion / Richard Ned Lebow -- Contested credibility : symbolic power in British exchange rate politics / Wolf Hassdorf -- Notes on a soft power research agenda / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- Reflecting on normative power Europe / Thomas Diez, Ian Manners -- Empowerment among nations : a sociological perspective / Erik Ringmar -- Levels, spaces and forms of power : analyzing opportunities for change / John Gaventa -- On the transformational potential of global civil society / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Discourses of power : traversing the realist-postmodern divide / Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Rosemary E. Shinko -- Theory meets practice : facets of power in the war on terror / M. J. Williams.

catalogued by: wessam

9780415421133 (hardback) 0415421136 (hardback) 9780415421140 (pbk.) 0415421144 (pbk.) 9780203944691 (ebook) 0203944690 (ebook)

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Balance of power.
World politics.
International relations.

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