The book examines the influential role of Henry Kissinger in shaping American foreign policy during his tenure as secretary of state. It analyzes key decisions, such as detente with the Soviet Union and the opening of relations with China, through various analytical methods including psychohistory and content analysis. The author, Harvey Starr, explores Kissinger's perceptions of adversaries and compares him to John Foster Dulles, providing a nuanced understanding of his statecraft and its impact on international politics during a pivotal era.
Get the tools you need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations with WORLD POLITICS: THE MENU FOR CHOICE. This textbook incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations.
The book delves into the intricate relationship between spatiality, geopolitics, and territoriality, examining how these concepts influence international relations. It offers insights into how geographical factors shape political dynamics and territorial disputes, providing a nuanced understanding of global affairs. Through a critical analysis, it highlights the significance of space in shaping power structures and international interactions, making it essential for those interested in contemporary geopolitical issues.
Through Starr's personal narrative, the book examines the interplay between intellectual trajectories and political memories in the context of intellectual autobiography. It highlights the evolution of his research in Conflict Processes and International Relations Theory, emphasizing themes like diffusion, geography, and decision-making. Additionally, it offers valuable insights for graduate students and junior faculty on navigating the challenges of academia while fostering professional growth and success.
Leading scholars incorporate domestic and international aims, choices, factors, and processes to explore the advantages of crossing methodological and analytical boundaries to gain a better understanding of international relations. They examine the complexity of international affairs and consider how scholars should best study it.
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of Russett’s scientific contributions, with key examples of his major studies. It will greatly benefit today’s International Relations students, deepening their understanding of the field’s theory and methods. Bruce M. Russett was a founder of, and continues to be a pioneer in, the empirical analytical study of international relations and foreign policy. He has produced groundbreaking works on methodology, data collection and the application of economics to the field of international relations—especially in the area of analytical relationships between theory, policy and normative standards for morality and ethics. His body of work has clarified and furthered our understanding of peace studies by addressing power and conflict, cooperation, integration and community, democratic/Kantian peace, economic development, dependency and inequality, and the relationships between domestic and foreign politics. Russett’s academic achievements and standing are the result of his bringing these areas together as a coherent entity, based on his eclectic ability to “cross boundaries” with regard to academic disciplines, sub-disciplines, methods of data gathering and analysis, and broad theoretical perspectives, as well as basic and applied research.
