The end of the Cold War has opened up a'real world laboratory'in which to test and refine
general theories of international relations. Using the frameworks provided by structural …

Since the collapse of the Cold War—and the system of international relations to which it
gave its name-the shape of the international system has been undergoing a fundamental …

This article, based on Adam Roberts's valedictory lecture as Montague Burton Professor of
International Relations at Oxford University, reconsiders the causes and consequences of …

The 1980s was a decade of upheaval unprecedented since the conclusion of World War
Two. In 1980 superpower detente had been abandoned and there was no sign of an end to …

What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that
should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading …

Puchala and Fagan argue that changes in the structure, process, and substance of
international politics make the realist Cold War" national security paradigm" an …

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Three of the more important international developments of the last half century are the “long
peace” between the superpowers, the Soviet Union's renunciation of its empire and leading …

The succession of mostly nonviolent revolutions that replaced Eastern European communist
governments in 1989 and the lack of any action by the Soviet Union to stop these changes …

This collection of essays grapples, historically, with the complex issues involved in
understanding system transformation. Often these transformations have taken the form of a …