Great Powers and International Hierarchy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319939759)

Hierarchical relationships--rules that structure both international and domestic politics--are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements both respond to domestic politics within weak states and structure the specific forms that hierarchy takes. Second, it deduces three sets of hypotheses about hierarchy maintenance, construction, and collapse during the post-war era. By offering a coherent theoretical model of hierarchical politics within weaker states, the author is able to answer a number of important questions, including: Why does the United States often ally with autocratic states even though its most enduring relationships are with democracies? Why do autocratic hierarchical relationships require interstate coercion? Why do some hierarchies end violently and otherspeacefully? Why does hierarchical competition sometimes lead to interstate conflict and sometimes to civil conflict?

Author: Daniel McCormack
ISBN-10: 3319939750
ISBN-13: 9783319939759
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2018
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d