The book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes. By assessing a wide range of such state-centred work, Youngs identifies the challenges we must address to grasp the complexity of the contemporary world.
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: From International Relations to Global
Relations.
Section 1: Inside State-Centrism.
1. Embedded State-centrism: From Realism to Neorealism.
2. Conceptual Determinism Revealed.
Section II: Beyond State-Centrism.
3. Beyond Superficial Paradigmatism.
4. Beyond the Normative Divide.
Section III: The Spaces of Global Relations.
5. States, Time and Space.
6. Political Economy of Spatiality.
The Conceptual Challenge: Concluding Thoughts.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Om författaren
Gillian Youngs is Lecurer in the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester.