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Part I: Preludes. - 1. Gods, sinners and the origins of IR theory. - 2. Renaissance politics: the roots of the Modern Ages. - Part II: The modern ages. - 3. Reformation politics: guns, ships and printing presses. - 4. Absolutist politics: the growth of the interstate system. - 5. Enlightenment politics: the rise of popular sovereignty. - 6. Ideological politics: systems of thought and mass participation. - Part III: The contemporary age. - 7. Intermezzo: becoming contemporary. - 8. World War I, the League and the twenty-years' crisis. - 9. World War II, UN and a new world order. - 10. The rivals: the early cold war and the heyday of Realism. - 11. The thaw and the Third World. - 12. Arms races and revolutions. - 13. The turn and the twist. - Part IV: The science of International Relations. - 14. Unipolar world?. - 15. A Science of International Relations?

Denne boka er en innsidedrøfting av en viktig og stormfull periode i USAs utenrikspolitiske historie. Den gir ingen nøytral framstilling: dette er Henry Kissingers versjon av verden på 1970-tallet, av USAs plass og rolle og av tiårets mange statsledere – Leonid Bresjnev, Mao Zedong, Anwar Sadat og, først og fremst, Richard Nixon. Boka har det muntlige intervjuets form: den består av et dusin kapitler hvor redaktøren stiller spørsmål og Kissinger gir svar. Hvert kapittel er organisert rundt et bestemt tema.

"Cumulative Knowledge, Science, and the Emergence of International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics is a fabulous but depressing genealogy of the modern study of International Relations (IR). The book is impressively comprehensive in content, It is complex in design. It exposes the self-serving dogmatism which have always marked mainstream IR literature. While admiring the scholarly qualities of the book, this review wonders if its critical exposure is excessive? Is there any scholarly approach in IR which is not crippled by its comprehensive condemnation? Does this book, which is written in the European tradition of Critical Theory, ultimately become a victim of its own sweeping criticism of the Western canon?