POLARITY IN CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: A UNI-INTERPOLAR ORDER?

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues NINTH EDITION

Linear Second-Order Uni cation

We present a new class of second-order uniication problems, which we have called linear. We deal with completely general second-order typed uniication problems, but we restrict the set of uniiers under consideration: they instantiate free variables by linear terms, i.e. terms where any-abstractions bind one and only one occurrence of a bound variable. Linear second-order uniication properly ext...

Normative Structures in International Politics

Over the past decade the structure of world politics has undergone a number of substantial changes. For the past half-century we have lived in an international system dominated by the bipolar rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the Cold War system has dissolved as quickly as it emerged, it is still not clear what kind of international structure will take its place. ...

Conflictual Peacetime International Politics

Affirmative answers are given to two questions of international politics: Do the parsimonious postulates of structure theory imply any mode of behavior for states, as claimed by the theory of neorealism? Does a principle of the harmony of interests exist for states, as asserted by idealist theories? Answers emanating from an n-person game theoretic model, which portrays states as security maxim...

Constructing International Politics

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