Why Nations Realign: Foreign Policy Restructuring in the Postwar World

by Kalevi J. Holsti

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Genres: International Relations

Hardcover

About the author

Kal Holsti (PhD Stanford, 1961) retired in July 2000, but is now a Research Associate with the Centre for International Relations in the Liu Institute. His areas of special interest are international relations theory, security studies, and foreign policy analysis. He is a former editor of the International Studies Quarterly, co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and former President of both the Canadian Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii, the International University of Japan, Kyoto University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at McGill University. He was also a visiting scholar at the Australian National University in 1983. Between 1984 and 1986 he was an appointee of the Governor General to the Governing Council, Canadian International Institute for Peace and Security

Holsti was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983, and named University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia in 1997. He was the seventh scholar to receive this status in the history of the university. In 2005, he was elected a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He is the first Canadian to be so honoured.

He has authored articles in all the major journals of his fields, as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes. His major books include International Politics: A Framework for Analysis (7 editions), Why Nations Realign: Foreign Policy Restructuring since World War II (1983), The Dividing Discipline: Hegemony and Pluralism in International Theory (1985), Change in the International System (1991), Peace and War: Armed Conflict and International Order (1991), The State, War, and the State of War (1996), and Taming the Sovereigns: Institutional Change in International Politics (2004). Cambridge University Press published the last three titles. His most recent publication is a collection of his essays, edited by Adam Jones, Politica Mundial: Cambio y Conflicto, Mexico City: Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, 2005.

Reviews

[Nanto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wanna read how international scholars do comparative case in rigor?

Yup, I don't wanna talk about how some countries changing their foreign policy. Maybe those issues has obsolete. Foreign policy of those countries have changed for so long time ago because of another factors. But the method still has a strong relevancy for IR Scholars in doing their study scientifically, albeit their lack of statistical analysis skill.

This book used comparative case and typological theory in analyzing ...(forget the number of country study in this book, but one of them is Canada).

First book for me that shows how rigorous comparative case is done.