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Power has been the engine of international relations and is the key concept for its study. The Realist and Neo-Realist schools have been the dominant ones in the discipline of International Relations and have understood the power in an exclusively conflictual way. Therefore, the aim of this article is to analyze the cooperative dimension of power conceptually and empirically. The article states that the contemporary Global Order is distinguished by being more plural in terms of agents and issues. Then, to understand this diversity, a broader concept of power is needed, which includes its cooperative dimension.

The Balance of Power is a highly relevant concept for analysing issues linked to international relations, especially in security-related matters. It refers to the practice of seeking power parity between States. While there are several positions on how the Balance of Power affects the security of states, there is no doubt that this concept is essential for understanding security, stability and peace issues. Institute for International Relations ; El Balance de Poder es un concepto harto relevante para analizar cuestiones vinculadas a las relaciones internacionales, especialmente en aquellos asuntos relacionados con la seguridad. El mismo hace referencia a la práctica orientada a la búsqueda de paridad de poder entre los Estados. Si bien hay varias posturas respecto a cómo afecta el Balance de Poder a la seguridad de los Estados, es indudable que dicho concepto es esencial para comprender asuntos relativos a la seguridad, estabilidad y la paz. Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales

Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology is unique in presenting the first critical collection of texts dealing with the debate between critical theory and pragmatism. Piet Strydom focuses in particular on the implications that the relation between the two has for the methodology and research practice of contemporary critical theory.

Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the 'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward society, and the practical role that sociology plays in society. The authors explore various facets of this failure and possibilities for reconstructing sociological theories as integrated wholes capable of conveying a moral and political immediacy. They discuss the evolution of several concepts (for example, the social, structure, and self) and address the significant disputes (for example, structuralism v

Although first explicitly coined in Renaissance Italy, the notion of a 'balance of power' - the conduct of state actors to meet the logics of power balancing - goes back to pre-modern times. Traditionally, scholars have looked to the Punic Wars and the early modern period as early evidence for the balance. However, the ancient Near East during the second-millennium BC has received far less attention. Yet Western Asia existed as an international arena of states fully integrated in a system based on interdependence and power balancing. In the field of International Relations, systematic analyses of this phase in world history remain under-developed. Accordingly, the question of when a systemic environment for the balancing behaviour existed for the first time has been addressed less in International Relations theory where the literature leans primarily on the European experience. ; Peer reviewed