The waves of time : long-term change and international relations / K.R. Dark.

Originally published in 1998 by Pinter Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Notes; 1. Beyond the horizon: theories of long-term change in International Relations; Introduction; Types of change and of modes of analysis; International Relations theory and long-term change; Realism and long-term change; Pluralism and long-term change; Structuralist approaches to long-term change; Post-modernism; Conclusion to the review of International Relations theory approaches; Notes; 2. How times change: the interdisciplinary context; Sociological approaches; Geographical approaches; History

Anthropological approachesArchaeological approaches; Economic approaches; Mathematical approaches; Biological approaches; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Making history: shared perspectives and shared problems in the study of long-term change; Introduction; Ecological approaches; Evolutionary approaches; Economic approaches; Cognitive approaches; Interactional approaches; Structural approaches; Historical particularist approaches; Mathematical or formal approaches; Conclusion to review of previous approaches; Perspectivism: a post-relativist epistemology; Conclusion to epistemologica! discussion

General conclusion to chapterNotes; 4. The waves of time? A new theory of change in socio-political systems; Introduction; Taking complexity seriously; The individual in society; Temporalities of change; Coping with structure; Complexity and decision-making; Managing information; Innovation and the rate of change; Empirical evidence for macrodynamics; Scale, differentiation, information processing and vulnerability; The politics of increasing scale; The lack of similar approaches in International Relations; Interaction between socio-political systems; Conclusion; Notes

5. The origins of international relations: non-state societiesIntroduction; Kin-based societies; The transition to governed society; The earliest regularly governed societies; Chiefdoms; Over-chiefdoms; From chiefdoms to over-chiefdoms; From chiefdom to the state; Defining the state; Mesopotamia; Mesoamerica; Peru; The Indus Valley; Egypt; China; Sub-Saharan Africa; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Cyclical states: the long-term dynamics of socio-political systems in the age of the state; Introduction; Analysing regional state systems; Cyclicality and regional state systems

Recognizing cyclical regularitiesDefining the regional system in geographical terms; Western Europe; The origins of the western European sub-regional system; The Roman Empire; Late Antiquity; The barbarian kingdoms; The early Middle Ages; The Viking Age; The medieval feudal system; The Renaissance system; The modern system; Conclusion to the examination of the western European trajectory; The Middle East; The earliest Middle Eastern systems; The Roman period; The early Byzantine Empire; The early Arab system; The Abbasid period; The revival of the Byzantine Empire; The 'Crusader' system

"This volume provides an overview of the whole range of long-term analyses in international relations. It evaluates and draws on theoretical approaches in both the humanities and social sciences - in subjects such as sociology, history, anthropology and archaeology - and recent progress in evolutionary theory and the mathematical study of complexity. The resulting analysis reinterprets processes of global political change in the past and present, and opens fresh areas of enquiry for international relations."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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