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After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

By Robert O. Keohane

Book information

Publisher
Princeton Univ Pr
Year
1984
ISBN
0691076766, 9780691076768
LCC
HF1411 .K442 1984
Open Library ID
OL21352716M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2635419 bytes)
Pages
290\303
Topic
Economy
Library
Mexmat
Time added
2011-02-23 10:11:24

Description

This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or ''international regimes,'' through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American hegemony has eroded. Refuting the idea that the decline of hegemony makes cooperation impossible, he views international regimes not as weak substitutes for world government but as devices for facilitating decentralized cooperation among egoistic actors. In the preface the author addresses the issue of cooperation after the end of the Soviet empire and with the renewed dominance of the United States, in security matters, as well as recent scholarship on cooperation.

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