Revolution and International Politics - Hardcover

Calvert, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312679858 ISBN 13: 9780312679859

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984

Synopsis

Presenting an analysis of the role of revolution in international politics, this edition takes account of developments since the first edition was published in 1984, such as the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991, and the re-evaluation by a number of scholars of the French Revolution. This is followed by various revisionist studies of revolution itself. The book incorporates recent work in the field, which calls for some significant changes of emphasis in order to understand the nature of international politics today. International relations as a discipline has moved away from state-centred theory; the new emphasis is on globalization, interdependence and the importance of non-state actors.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Calvert was Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Politics at the University of Southampton, UK. A political scientist, writer, and educator, Calvert began his career as a regular British Army enlistment with the Intelligence Corps before moving to academia as a teaching fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at Birkbeck College, London, and at the University of Portsmouth. In 1984, he was appointed to a personal Chair with the title of Professor of Comparative and International Politics at Southampton. He served as co-editor of the journal Democratization from 1996 to 2007 and was also the co-editor of the Frank Cass/Longman book series on democratization. In addition, he has published about 20 books and his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312679858
• ISBN 13: 9780312679859
• Binding: Hardcover