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  • On Politicking

    Politics as Practice: From Coercion to Preemption

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is unusual in that, although it asks a familiar question, it provides an unfamiliar answer. What's more, it's the most coherent and comprehensive answer possible. Most people say politics is about how societies organise their affairs, or about different kinds of government, or about who rules and why. The problem is that though they aren't wrong, they're only partly right. Social order, ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Moral Claims in World Affairs

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    This collection of essays explores in general terms the nature of the moral claims common in global politics and the phenomenon of partisan cosmopolitanism in particular. Detailed discussions are presented of the attempts to rescue a single body of human ideals from the multitude of systems that presently prevail, of the group, rather than universal basis of human morality, of the perennial ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Intending the World

    A Phenomenology of International Affairs

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    How we look at the world is informed mainly by our assumptions and the ways in which we rationalise them. Seldom do we rely—or allow ourselves to rely—on 'gut thinking' or intuition.Intending the World shows how rationalism, which is our primary approach in thinking about world affairs, is in crisis. By studying the world rationalistically, we objectify it and we look at it as detached from ... Leer más

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  • Reason, Culture, Religion

    The Metaphysics of World Politics

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    In Reason, Culture, Religion, Ralph Pettman calls for wider recognition of, and greater commitment to, the ‘new’ international relations, a discipline much more comprehensive and cosmopolitan than the ‘old’. He first documents the way modernist analysts describe and explain world politics. Pettman then explores two ways in which the constraints on modernist thinking are transgressed: communalist ( ... Leer más

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  • World Politics

    Rationalism and Beyond

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    This book provides an overview of the entire discipline of world affairs in a way that makes immediate sense. It is also a critique of the limits that rationalism sets on how we know world affairs, showing how we might transcend these limits by augmenting rationalist research with non-rationalist techniques. It should appeal to anyone interested in why analysts so often seem to explain world ... Leer más

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  • Here Comes Everyone: Anthropology And World Affairs

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down. It looks at world affairs with notable detachment. By taking a cultural anthropological approach, however, it is possible to engage with those involved in a more comprehensive and cogent way. It is possible to provide a deeper understanding of how people live there.This book directly addresses a significant gap in the ... Leer más

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  • State and Class

    A Sociology of International Affairs

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    International affairs are most commonly explained in terms of the flow of diplomatic traffic and the wealth-springs of foreign policy. This study complements the conventional debates with one cast in terms of an emerging world society.The fundamental social structures found there, of both the state and social class, are predicated in turn upon the fundamental forces of industrialisation and ... Leer más

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  • Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    Fully accessible to students and scholars alike, this engaging book introduces the constructivist approach to understanding world affairs. In a highly readable and witty way, it shows how people and their social relations are the basis for everything around us -- International Relations included. ... Leer más

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  • Human Behaviour and World Politics

    A Transdisciplinary Introduction

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    The contemporary academic study of world politics is a very diverse one This book is particularly concerned with that considerable part of it which in a loose sense represents the ‘behaviouralist’ school - the fashion of analysis that flowered in the 1950s and 1960s, principally in the United States, on the strength of three distinct and interconnected ideas: that there should be a self ... Leer más

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  • China in Burma's Foreign Policy

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    Few of the smaller nations today, particularly in south-east Asia, have succeeded in remaining unaligned with one or other of the great powers. Burma is the one that has.This book traces the course of Burma’s foreign policy towards China since World War II. It shows how, though at times relations have been strained as during the anti-Chinese riots, Burma has succeeded in maintaining amicable ... Leer más

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  • Handbook On International Political Economy

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    International political economy (IPE) is a highly complex discipline, drawing not only from the fields of politics and economics, but also those as varied as philosophy, history and anthropology. Now widely accepted as a key dimension to contemporary world affairs, it is no longer possible to talk about international relations without talking about production and distribution, finance and ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Psychopathology And World Politics

    de Ralph Pettman ...
    This unique work looks at the relationship between psychopathology and world politics. What happens when the brain/mind ceases to function properly? How does this impinge on world affairs? What is to be done, for example, when a leader ceases to act in a seemingly sane fashion and yet still commands the loyalty of those who maintain him or her in office? What is to be done when a leader's advisers ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD