Education
London School of Economics.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JXONFBE/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LP3Y8B2/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K930UVQ/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K92LB4W/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MZ3ZED7/?tag=2022091-20
(The idea that world politics can be understood in terms o...)
The idea that world politics can be understood in terms of a US dominated unipolarity became generally accepted during the 1990s. Following the September 11 attacks, however, US foreign policy took an imperial turn and many began to question the form, style and substance of US leadership at the start of the 21st Century. But why is the US behaving as if it lived in a world of enemies? What can other great powers do to change the behaviour of the US, and what will be the consequences if they fail? Could the EU and China become superpowers alongside the US? And what would happen if the US stepped down from its superpowers role creating a world with only great powers and no superpowers? In this important new book, Barry Buzan seeks to provide answers to these pressing questions. He begins by introducing the core concepts of polarity and identity in world politics, which he uses to develop three possible scenarios for the future development of the international political system. Buzan contends that we are not living in a strictly unipolar world, where the great powers are helpless in the face of the US. Instead he argues that the existence of great powers alongside an American superpower plays a crucial role in creating both opportunities and responsibilities which will shape the way in which world politics unfolds in the coming decades. What the great powers do or don't do will be crucial to how long US dominance lasts. It will also help determine whether the period of American hegemony will develop or destroy the unique multilateral international society built up by US foreign policy over the last half century.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745633757/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K3HAXOW/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FEL6J22/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010WNEAVE/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K94N9GI/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K3LZP5A/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NAOHJ1Q/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014GFP7R0/?tag=2022091-20
historian university professor
London School of Economics.
Until 2012 he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Buzan sketched the Regional Security Complex Theory and is therefore together with Ole Wæver a central figure of the Copenhagen School. From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick.
During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-1998 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden.
He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-1990, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-1994, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-1998. From 1999 to 2011 he was the general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of international relations theory, and from 2004-2008 he was editor of the European Journal of International Relations.
In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and in 2001 he was elected to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. Buzan defines his interests as:
the conceptual and regional aspects of international security;
international history, and the evolution of the international system since prehistory;
international relations theory, particularly structural realism;
international society, and the "English School" approach to International Relations.
Barry Buzan was born in London, but his family emigrated to Canada in 1954.
He holds the citizenships of the United Kingdom and Canada, Buzan is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (1968) where he started an uncompleted master programme. He received his doctorate at the London School of Economics (1973). Buzan"s wife, Deborah Skinner, is an artist and youngest daughter of psychologist B. F. Skinner.
They have no children.
(The idea that world politics can be understood in terms o...)
He describes his political views as social democratic and his religious views as extreme secularist.
