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Why there is International Theory now

Duncan Snidal and Alexander Wendt (2009). Why there is International Theory now. International Theory, 1 , [...]

Towards a post-secular political order?

Mariano Barbato and Friedrich Kratochwil (2009). Towards a post-secular political order?. European Political Science Review, 1, [...]

The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt

DANA R. VILLA

Introduction: the development of Arendt’s political thought

Widely recognized as one of the most original and influential political thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt remains an elusive figure. She never wrote a systematic political philosophy in the mode of Thomas Hobbes or John Rawls, and the books she did write are extremely diverse [...]

«Les tables séparées». Écoles et sectes dans la science politique américaine

Gabriel A. Almond

Miss Cooper : La solitude est une chose terrible vous ne trouvez pas ?

Anne : Oui vraiment. Une chose terrible…

Miss Meecham : Elle n’est pas du genre «solitaire».

Miss Cooper : Y a-t-il quelqu’un qui soit du genre «solitaire»… ?

Terence Rattigan, Separate Tables, 1955

DANS Separate Tables, le succès de la saison théâtrale new-yorkaise de [...]

L’Etat en Afrique. Géographie politique de la maîtrise des territoires

Christian Bouquet

1En reprenant le thème de « l’Etat en Afrique », ce numéro de L’Espace Politique n’entend pas revenir sur les travaux des politistes car ceux-ci ont déjà largement défriché ce sujet et proposé des pistes de réflexion pertinentes. En effet, on s’accorde généralement – mais cette certitude peut être ébranlée – pour considérer [...]

The Internationalization of the State as the Reconstitution of Hegemony

Ulrich Brand
University of Vienna

Abstract
This article focuses on one aspect of the reconstitution of hegemony—in a Gramscian sense—since the 1970s, i.e. the internationalization of the state. It is argued that the Neo-Gramscian approach to International Political Economy has severe state-theoretical shortcomings. Therefore, insights of historical-materialist state theory are sketched out,
especially Nicos Poulantzas´ state theory, in order [...]

America At the Crossroads

DEMOCRACY, POWER, AND THE NEOCONSERVATIVE LEGACY

Francis Fukuyama

The subject of this book is American foreign policy since the al- Qaida attacks of September n , 2001. This is a personal subject for me. Having long regarded myself as a  neoconservative, I thought I shared a common worldview with many other neoconservatives— including friends and acquaintances [...]

The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

The “End of History” would never have existed, either as an article or as this present book, without the invitation to deliver a lecture by that title d u r i n g the 1988-89 academic year, extended
by Professors Nathan Tarcov and Allan Bloom of the J o h n M. Olin [...]

Democracy's Century

A Survey of Global Political Change in the 20th Century

Political scientists who point to the proliferation of democratically elected governments around the world since the mid-1970s refer to ours as the “democratic age.” But the data presented in this end-of-the-century report make clear that ours has not only been a century of bloody struggle [...]

Smart Power and US Leadership: A Critique of Joseph Nye

Paul Cammack
This paper subjects Joseph Nye’s advocacy of soft power (recently repackaged as ‘smart’ power) to critical scrutiny, and reflects on the implications for US global leadership. It shows that Nye’s position is far from multilateralist, still insisting as it does on hard power supremacy and the need for America to lead. It [...]