Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change.(Review) (book review)

Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change. By Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 476p. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

This complex, ambitious, and large book seeks to question, reformulate, and enhance the scope (and methods) of international relations theories, particularly those formulated within a realist framework. The authors question that framework, the Westphalian model of putatively unitary nation-states, quantitative methods of empirical investigation, and the levels-of-analysis paradigm. The breadth of their ...

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