TY - BOOK ID - 7129077 TI - International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity. AU - Ikenberry, G. John AU - Mastanduno, Michael AU - Wohlforth, William C PY - 2011 SN - 9781107011700 9781107634596 9780511996337 9781139188401 1139188402 0511996330 9781139191005 1139191004 1107011701 1107634598 1139179934 9781139179935 1107222338 9781107222335 1283382601 9781283382601 9786613382603 6613382604 1139189719 9781139189712 1139183788 9781139183789 1139186108 9781139186100 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Balance of power KW - Unipolarity (International relations) KW - International relations KW - World politics KW - Philosophy KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - 814 Theorie van de internationale betrekkingen KW - Balance of power. KW - Political science KW - Philosophy. KW - International Relations KW - General. KW - Unipolarity (International relations). KW - Hegemony KW - Power, Balance of KW - Power politics KW - Political realism KW - Internationale relationer KW - International politik KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - International relations - Philosophy KW - World politics - 1989 KW - -United States - Foreign relations - 1989 KW - -Balance of power. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7129077 AB - The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experiences between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, when five or more powerful states dominated international relations, and the latter twentieth century, when two superpowers did so. Building on a highly successful special issue of the leading journal World Politics, this book seeks to determine whether what we think we know about power and patterns of state behaviour applies to the current 'unipolar' setting and, if not, how core theoretical propositions about interstate interactions need to be revised. ER -