Book Description This book tells the 60,000 year story of how humankind evolved from a scattering of hunter-gatherer bands to todays highly integrated global international political economy. It traces the evolution of ever-wider economic, societal and military-political international systems, and the interplay between these systems and the tribes, city states, empires, and mod...(展开全部)

International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are st...(展开全部)

After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions - the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the Internatio...(展开全部)

作者： 罗伯特·基欧汉（Robert Owen Keohane），当代西方国际关系理论大家、美国著名政治学家，美国政治学会前任主席、美国国家科学院院士、普林斯顿大学国际事务学教授，其著述《霸权之后》、《国际制度与国家权力》、《权力与相互依赖》（与约瑟夫·奈合著）等被视为国际关系领域的经典之作。 约瑟夫·奈（Joseph Nye），美国著名政治学家、国际关系理论名家，影响美国外交政策的关键学者之一，哈佛大学“杰出贡献”教授、美国前助理国防部长，因首先提出“软实力”概念而闻名世界，该概念深刻改变了人们对国际关系的看法。约瑟夫·奈的经典著作有《软实力》《巧实力》《权力大未来》等。 菲利普·泰特洛克（Philip E. Tetlock），美国著名政治学家，加州大学伯克利分校米歇尔讲席教授、宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院教授，曾获得美国政治学学会、国际政治心理学协会...(展开全部)

马克·特拉亨伯格（Marc Trachtenberg） 知名国际关系史学家，1974年在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校取得博士学位，曾在耶鲁大学、宾夕法尼亚大学、哥伦比亚大学任教，现任教于加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校。著有《建构的和平：1945—1963年欧洲协议的形成》（A C onstructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963），该书获得美国历史学会两项学术奖项，《冷战和冷战结束之后：国际政治的历史、理论和逻辑》（The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics）

Winner of the 2006 Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association The difference between war and peace can be a matter of trust. States that trust each other can cooperate and remain at peace. States that mistrust each other enough can wage preventive wars, attacking now in fear that the other side will attack in the future. In this groundbr...(展开全部)