Revolution and International Politics: Second Edition (History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic) - Hardcover

Peter Calvert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474291368 ISBN 13: 9781474291361

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

This book aims to present an analysis of the role of revolution in international politics. Concerning itself with the time frame from the French Revolution up to the fall of the Iron Curtain, this book covers the study of revolution itself, the importance of globalisation, interdependence and non-state actors and the change in the nature of international politics theory.

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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: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1474291368
• ISBN 13: 9781474291361
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192