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How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? With 'The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations', the author offers a new answer to this perennial question in international relations, arguing that power transitions are principally social phenomena whereby rising powers struggle to obtain recognition of their identity as a great power.

In spite of its substantial results in understanding modern capitalism and the fact that, until the 1970s, Keynesian theory inspired the economic policy of most countries, the classical/post-Keynesian paradigm failed to become dominant on the theoretical scene. Why? Pasinetti's book provides an answer by first pointing out the "unwise behavior" of the Cambridge group of Keynesian scholars, then by suggesting how to overcome the present theoretical impasse by the methodological device of the "separation theorem." Economic enquiry, he argues, should distinguish the phase of "pure theory," to be elaborated at a logical stage that precedes institutions, from the (applied) institutional analysis. The review concludes by maintaining that, while Pasinetti's suggestion is fully valid, the theoretical strength of a paradigm is a necessary but not sufficient condition for becoming dominant. As the last decades show, the success or failure of a paradigm is also crucially dependent on social and power relations in society. JEL classification: B50; B31; E12

In this book, Feliciano de S Guimares offers an original application of Role Theory. He proposes a theory of master role transitions to explain how small powers can change regional powers' master roles without changing the regional material power distribution.Master role transition is the replacement of an active dominant master role by a dormant or inactive role located within one's role repertoire. Guimares argues that only a combination of four necessary conditions can produce a full master role transition: asymmetrical material interdependence, altercasting, domestic contestation and regional contestation. In each one of these conditions, a small power uses material and ideational tools to promote a master role transition within the regional power role repertoire. To test his model, Guimares turns to five case studies in Latin America, Southern Africa and South Asia: the 2006-2007 Bolivia-Brazil gas crisis, the 2008-2009 Paraguay-Brazil Itaip Dam crisis, the 2008-2009 Ecuador-Brazil Odebrecht crisis, the 1998 South Africa-Lesotho military intervention crisis and the 1996India-Bangladesh Ganges water crisis.A Theory of Master Role Transition is an excellent resource for those studying both theory and method in International Relations and foreign policy analysis.

"As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major international war--the invasion of Korea in the 1590s by Japan's ruler Hideyoshi. This war involved Koreans, Japanese, Chinese Southeast Asians and Europeans, saw the largest overseas landing in world history up to that time, and devastated Korea. It also highlighted the nature of the strategic balance in the region, presenting China's Ming dynasty with a serious threat that perhaps foreshadowed the dynasty's subsequent overthrow by the Manchus, played a major part in the establishment of the Tokugawa regime with its policy of peace and controlled access to seventeenth and eighteenth century Japan, and demonstrated the importance for regional stability of the subtle relationship of Korea to both China and Japan. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the war and its aftermath in all its aspects--military, political, social and economic, and cultural. As such it deepens understanding of East Asian international relations and provides important insights into the strategic forces that continue to operate in the region at present"--

AN APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL AGENDA-SETTING IS OFFERED THROUGH A STUDY OF THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S ATTEMPT TO REMOVE NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA IN THE EARLY 1980S. THE ADMINISTRATION INITIALLY FAILED TO SECURE ITS DESIRED AGENDA CHANGE. THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS THAT IT IS THROUGH AGENDA ACCESS POINTS THAT AGENDA POLITICS PROCEEDS. CONTROL OF OR LOCATION AT THESE POINTS IS NECESSARY FOR AGENDA SUCCESS.

Public Relations sind allgegenwärtig und haben eine Vielzahl von Teildisziplinen. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit diesen bislang in der Literatur wenig beachteten Teildisziplinen. Es handelt sich um "Krisen-PR", "Internationale PR", "Politische Kommunikation", "Litigation PR" und "Change Communication".Zu jedem Kapitel wurden Expertinnen und Experten der jeweiligen Praxis interviewt. Verfasst wurden die einzelnen Kapitel von Lisa Kerschner, Sandra Pichler, Nicole Renauer, Bettina Schlesinger, Katrin Zulechner, Sarah Kickinger, Martina Pilz, Philipp Pötz, Rebecca Rainer, Anna Weissenbacher, Catharina Fischer, Anna Niedermayer, Julia Steiner, Lena Fuchs, Daniela Hofer, Nicole Nestler, Tobias Zehentner, Dara Fichtner, Isabel Matky und Anna Neubacher