After hegemony : cooperation and discord in the world political economy /
By: Keohane, Robert O. (Robert Owen).
Series: Princeton classic editions: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005Description: xxiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0691122482; 9780691122489:; 9780691122489; 9781400820269; 140082026X.Subject(s): International economic relations | World politics -- 1945-1989 | Hegemony | World politics -- 1989-DDC classification: 337 KEOItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 337 KEO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082328 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-279) and index.
Realism, institutionalism, and cooperation -- Politics, economics, and the international system -- Hegemony in the world political economy -- Cooperation and international regimes -- Rational-choice and functional explanations -- Functional theory of international regimes -- Bounded rationality and redefinitions of self-interest -- Hegemonic cooperation in the postwar era -- Incomplete decline of hegemonic regimes -- Consumers' oil regime, 1974-81 -- Value of institutions and the costs of flexibility.
Looking at the level of international cooperation among the world's most advanced capitalist countries, this text refutes the idea that the decline of hegemony makes cooperation impossible, suggesting instead that governments can be devices for facilitating decentralized cooperation among egoistic actors.