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020 _a9780198753582
028 _aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)Ltd.
_b;7/22,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002
_c;1099686
_d;09/08/2019
082 _a320.01 TAN
100 _aShiping Tang
245 _aThe social evolution of international politics
_c/Shiping Tang
260 _aOxford
_b: Oxford University Press
_c, 2013.
300 _aviii, 281 pages
_c; 24 cm
365 _b2642
505 _a Part I. Preparing the ground. Introduction: why an evolutionary approach toward IR? -- 1. From biological evolution to social evolution -- Part II. The systematic transformation of international politics. 2. Paradise Lost and paradigm gained: the making of the offensive realism world -- 3. From Mearsheimer to Jervis -- 4. A more rule-based international system unfolding -- Part III. Implications and conclusion. 5. International politics as an evolutionary system.
520 _aDeploying an original 'Social Evolution Paradigm' (SEP) and drawing from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and international relations, this book advances a sweeping account of the systemic transformation of international politics. More specifically, the book shows how the nasty and brutish Hobbesian/offensive realism world many of us take for granted had evolved from an Eden-like paradise; how the Hobbesian world had self-transformed into a more peaceful defensive realism world from 1648 to 1945; and how some regions of the post-1945 world have become more rule-based and peaceful. The book critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides neat solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from offensive realism to defensive realism, neoliberalism, the English School, and constructivism. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of international politics and of interest to those working in anthropology, sociology, political science, and social sciences in genera
650 _aSocial Sciences
655 _aPolitical sociology
_bPolitical science -- Philosophy -- History.
700 _aShiping Tang
942 _cBOOK