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Cover -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Analytic eclecticism -- Paradigms and research traditions -- What analytic eclecticism is and does -- Recognizing analytic eclecticism -- 2 Eclecticism, pragmatism, and paradigms in international relations -- The limits of the inter-paradigm debate -- What eclecticism can contribute -- Analytic eclecticism and the pragmatist turn -- 3 War and peace, security and insecurity -- Robert Jervis, American Foreign Policy in a New Era (2005) -- Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention (2003) -- Etel Solingen, Nuclear Logics (2007) -- T. V. Paul, The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons (2009) -- David Kang, China Rising (2007) -- Conclusion -- 4 Global political economy -- Leonard Seabrooke, The Social Sources of Financial Power (2006) -- Timothy Sinclair, The New Masters of Capital (2005) -- CorneliaWoll, Firm Interests (2008) -- Nicolas Jabko, Playing the Market (2006) -- Richard Stubbs, Rethinking Asia's Economic Miracle (2005) -- Conclusion -- 5 Order and governance, regional and global -- Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World (2004) -- Benjamin Schiff, Building the International Criminal Court (2008) -- Ian Hurd, After Anarchy (2007) -- Frank Schimmelfennig, The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe (2003) -- Alice Ba, [Re]Negotiating East and Southeast Asia (2009) -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- Lessons from eclectic scholarship -- The risks, trade-offs, and promise of analytic eclecticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article investigates why, in two very different regimes, similarly high levels of labor militancy are evident in Kazakhstan's oilfields and South Africa's platinum belt. It also explores the common dynamics leading up to the massacres at Zhanaozen (2011) and Marikana (2012). The hypothesis-generating most different systems comparison highlights the challenges of labor relations where extraction at fixed sites combines with volatile prices and shareholder pressures in a globalized economy to raise the stakes for business, labor, and state. Also significant are blockages in existing channels for bargaining linked to quiescent unions. These jointly necessary conditions account for increased militancy in extractive industries in Kazakhstan and South Africa. To account for the Zhanaozen and Marikana massacres, timing and sequence are considered. Both standoffs came later in the strike wave, prompting impatient state and business elites to criticize the protests as "criminal" acts, and priming security personnel to employ violent repression.

Wherever labor has played a significant role in bringing about regime change, there may be opportunities to join in the post-authoritarian ruling coalition in the hopes of consolidating its influence. This article examines the long-term risks and unanticipated consequences of giving in to this temptation by comparing post-communist Poland and post-apartheid South Africa, where the leading trade union federations became weaker and more divided as their political allies pushed forward with economic liberalization. Tunisia's trade unions, awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for their contribution to a stable transition after the 'Arab Spring,' face the risk of going down the same path should they continue to view themselves as partners of the new governing elite, which has already signaled its intention of pursuing further liberalization.