Format:
Online-Ressource (304 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107021358
Content:
This is the first study of how major global problems have been managed through the international distribution of special responsibilities
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Special Responsibilities; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Equality and differentiation; The United States, special responsibilities and IR theory; The main theoretical claims; The cases; Organisation; Part I Theoretical framework; 1 A practice in search of a theory; The historical practice of special responsibilities; Theories of special responsibilities; Towards a praxis of special responsibilities; 2 Special responsibilities in world politics; Responsibility; Responsibility and the constitution of society; Can states have responsibilities?
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Responsibility under anarchyDistribution of power; Social domains and the distribution of responsibilities; Conclusion; Part II Three global problems; 3 Nuclear proliferation; The evolution of special responsibilities; Contestation from below; Contestation from above; The search for a new equilibrium; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 4 Climate change; The allocation of special responsibilities; Does the US possess 'extra special responsibilities'?; The evolution and contestation of special responsibilities; The political dynamics of the negotiating blocs
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The US response to special responsibilitiesThe Obama administration: a new era?; The US's role in reshaping special responsibilities; Conclusion; Postscript; 5 Global finance; Special responsibilities in the Bretton Woods agreements; Reallocation of responsibility in the breakdown of Bretton Woods; Horizontal and vertical diffusion of responsibility in the post-Bretton Woods era; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Part III Ethical dimensions; 6 The ethics of special responsibilities; Assigning special responsibilities; Nuclear proliferation; Climate change; Global finance; US exceptionalism
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ConclusionConclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Cover; Special Responsibilities; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Equality and differentiation; The United States, special responsibilities and IR theory; The main theoretical claims; The cases; Organisation; Part I Theoretical framework; 1 A practice in search of a theory; The historical practice of special responsibilities; Theories of special responsibilities; Towards a praxis of special responsibilities; 2 Special responsibilities in world politics; Responsibility; Responsibility and the constitution of society; Can states have responsibilities?
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Responsibility under anarchyDistribution of power; Social domains and the distribution of responsibilities; Conclusion; Part II Three global problems; 3 Nuclear proliferation; The evolution of special responsibilities; Contestation from below; Contestation from above; The search for a new equilibrium; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 4 Climate change; The allocation of special responsibilities; Does the US possess 'extra special responsibilities'?; The evolution and contestation of special responsibilities; The political dynamics of the negotiating blocs
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The US response to special responsibilitiesThe Obama administration: a new era?; The US's role in reshaping special responsibilities; Conclusion; Postscript; 5 Global finance; Special responsibilities in the Bretton Woods agreements; Reallocation of responsibility in the breakdown of Bretton Woods; Horizontal and vertical diffusion of responsibility in the post-Bretton Woods era; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Part III Ethical dimensions; 6 The ethics of special responsibilities; Assigning special responsibilities; Nuclear proliferation; Climate change; Global finance; US exceptionalism
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ConclusionConclusion; Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139422079
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107021358
Additional Edition:
Print version Special Responsibilities : Global Problems and American Power
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
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