Power and Progress

<p>Jack Snyder is a leading American international relations scholar with an international reputation for his research on IR theory and US Foreign policy. This book collects many of his most important essays into a single volume.</p><p>Exploring a liberal realist theory of international politics, the book is arranged around three key subject areas:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Anarchy and Its Effects</li> <li>The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation </li> <li>Empire and the Promotion of a Liberal Order</li> </ul><p>With a new introduction to frame the selected essays, this collection examines how developing nations evolve political systems, and fit into a world dominated by liberal-democracies. It looks to the future for the current dominant powers in a changing world of international relations and at the challenges to their leadership. Featuring a new conclusion, developed from the assembled chapters, this is a fascinating and vital collection of scholarship from one of the most influential theorists of his generation.</p><p><em>Power and Progress</em> is an invaluable text for students and scholars of international relations, and those interested in the debates on liberalism and realism, and comparative politics.</p> <p>1. Introduction <strong>Part 1: Anarchy and Its Effects</strong> 2. Chain Gangs and Passed Bucks <em>with Thomas Christensen </em>3. Averting Anarchy in the New Europe 4. Civil War and the Security Dilemma <em>with Robert Jervis</em> 5. Anarchy and Culture <strong>Part 2: The Challenges of Democratic Transition</strong> 6. Turbulent Transitions: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War <em>with Edward Mansfield </em>7. Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas <em>with Karen Ballentine </em>8. Democratization and Civil War, <em>with Edward Mansfield </em>9. Russian Backwardness and the Future of Europe <strong>Part 3: Empire and the Promotion of a Liberal Order </strong>10. Myths of Empire and Strategies of Hegemony 11. Empire: A Blunt Tool for Democratization 12. Free Hand Abroad, Divide and Rule at Home<em> with Robert Y. Shapiro and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon </em> 13. Trials and Errors: Principles and Pragmatism in International Justice <em>with Leslie Vinjamuri</em> 14. Conclusion: Summarizing Prescriptions in Such Areas as Offshore Balancing, Democracy Promotion, and Human Rights</p>