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Theory and History in International Relations

By: Donald J. Puchala

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Theory and History in International Relations

By: Donald J. Puchala

Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the "manufacture" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called "scientific revolution" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizations, cultural encounters and colonies in the ancient world, and liberal approaches to the understanding of history and ethical contributions to the dialogue over theory.

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1136074589

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United Nations Politics

International Organization in a Divided World

By: Donald Puchala,Katie Verlin Laatikainen,Roger Coate

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United Nations Politics

International Organization in a Divided World

By: Donald Puchala,Katie Verlin Laatikainen,Roger Coate

United Nations Politics takes a unique approach that focuses on the politics that is, the persistent and mostly singular emphasis that all member states place on the pursuit of national political, economic, cultural and ideological interests of UN affairs. The project began as an effort to research and write a ten-year-later sequel to The Challenge of Relevance written by Puchala and Coate in 1989. This earlier volume was an assessment of the United Nations and its operations in the late eighties. United Nations Politics builds from a series of some 200 interviews conducted at the UN and in various member-state missions between 2000 and 2005. Among other things , these interviews revealed that the existing English-language literature on the UN fails to take into appropriate account the dynamics and the impacts of the internal and external political contexts within which the UN operates. This book directly addresses this shortcoming in the academic literature.

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1317342674

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Fiscal Harmonization in the European Communities

National Politics and International Cooperation

By: Donald J. Puchala

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Fiscal Harmonization in the European Communities

National Politics and International Cooperation

By: Donald J. Puchala

The specific concern of this study is 'politicization' or the relationships between contests in national politics and the capacity for international cooperation. Progress towards fiscal harmonization in the European Community is selected as the substantive focus for the study, although the object is to learn from the EC rather than about it. The author argues that common EC policies usually reach fruition as complex compromises, derived from decisions based on the perceived effect on domestic politics and rivalries, rather than transnational neatness. Lack of political will is frequently blamed for delays in the acceptance of common policies, whereas the truth often lies in the fact that national governments believe that domestic political costs would be prohibitive. Politicization is studied in four major areas: 1. Identification, causes and effects 2. The effect on domestic politics and transnational cooperation in the EC 3. Effects on further 'European integration' 4. Deriving lessons from the EC for more general relationships between domestic politics and international cooperation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472506715

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9781472506719

United Nations Politics

International Organization in a Divided World

By: Donald Puchala,Katie Verlin Laatikainen,Roger Coate

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International Organization in a Divided World

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Theory and History in International Relations

Theory and History in International Relations

United Nations Politics

United Nations Politics

Fiscal Harmonization in the European Communities

Fiscal Harmonization in the European Communities

United Nations Politics

United Nations Politics

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