New Systems Theories of World Politics

New Systems Theories of world politics offers a fresh look at contemporary world politics. It uses a number of systems theoretical approaches in order to analyze the structure and dynamics of the international system. While a rich tradition of systems theorizing in International Relations emerged in the 1950s and 1960s in recent years the study of world politic has tended to bypass developments in system theory in favor of micro-level theories. Drawing on advances in systems theorizing in bot…