Power and Interdependence

Author: Robert Keohane, Joseph Nye [USA]
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Power and Interdependence is a significant work co-authored by the renowned American scholars Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye. Since 1977, it has been one of the most frequently cited books in the field of international relations, regarded by American scholars as an "indispensable work" and "a must-have for any serious scholar of international relations, to be consulted often." Power and Interdependence is co-authored by the renowned American scholars Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, a work of considerable theoretical contribution. The publication of the book in 1977 marked the beginning of the challenge by the liberal institutionalist school of international relations to the dominance of (neo)realist theory, forming the theoretical cornerstone of the rise of liberal institutionalism. In 1989, the book was revised and expanded to include responses to gradualism; in 2001, the third edition was published, where the two scholars integrated globalization, international regimes, and the concept of interdependence, offering a serious theoretical analysis of world politics at the turn of the 21st century, becoming the pinnacle of the development of liberal institutionalism. Since 1977, it has been one of the most frequently cited books in the field of international relations, regarded by American scholars as an "indispensable work" and "a must-have for any serious scholar of international relations, to be consulted often."