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Articles of Confederation
Author_Daniel H. Deudney
British Empire
Caesarism
Cambridge University Press
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City-state
Communitarianism
Consent of the governed
Democracy
Democratic peace theory
Despotism
E. H. Carr
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Federal Union
Geopolitics
Great power
Hegemony
Imperial Federation
Imperialism
Interdependence
International law
International relations
James Burnham
James Harrington (author)
Jihad vs. McWorld
John Mearsheimer
Liberalism
Limited government
Martin Wight
Montesquieu
Nation state
Negarchy
Neorealism (international relations)
Nuclear weapon
Offensive realism
Original intent
Perpetual peace
Political philosophy
Political science
Political structure
Political system
Politics
Popular sovereignty
Postmodernism
Power politics
Praetorianism
Princeton University Press
Realism (international relations)
Realists
Republic
Republicanism
Security dilemma
Security studies
Sovereignty
State of nature
Statism
Strong Democracy
Superiority (short story)
Superpower
Technology
The Future of Freedom
The Spirit of the Laws
Theory of International Politics
Thomas Hobbes
Thucydides
Total war
Union Movement
War
War of aggression
Warfare
Westphalian sovereignty
World War II
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- ISBN 9780691138305
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to the present. Its main challenger, liberalism, looks to Kant and nineteenth-century economists. Despite their many insights, neither realism nor liberalism gives us adequate tools to grapple with security globalization, the liberal ascent, and the American role in their development. In reality, both realism and liberalism and their main insights were largely invented by republicans writing about republics. The main ideas of realism and liberalism are but fragments of republican security theory, whose primary claim is that security entails the simultaneous avoidance of the extremes of anarchy and hierarchy, and that the size of the space within which this is necessary has expanded due to technological change. In Daniel Deudney's reading, there is one main security tradition and its fragmentary descendants. This theory began in classical antiquity, and its pivotal early modern and Enlightenment culmination was the founding of the United States.
Moving into the industrial and nuclear eras, this line of thinking becomes the basis for the claim that mutually restraining world government is now necessary for security and that political liberty cannot survive without new types of global unions. Unique in scope, depth, and timeliness, Bounding Power offers an international political theory for our fractious and perilous global village.
Daniel H. Deudney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively on international political theory and contemporary global issues.
