Background
Knutsen, Torbjorn Lindstrom was born on January 21, 1952 in Arendal, Norway. Son of Sigvald Peder Knutsen and Elna Caroline Lindstrom.
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Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Spanish, Dutch and the First and Second British world orders. It identifies their common features in order to find the most salient causes for their rise as world powers, and the most probable reasons for their decline. The second half of the book addresses the American world order in the 20th century, from Pax Americana to the End of US Hegemony. The author sees the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of the US as evidence of the role played by normative dimensions, commonly underestimated in International Relations analysis. Theoretically challenging, Knutsen's volume provides a fresh approach to debates in international relations aimed at both students and scholars.
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Publisher: Tianjin People's Publishing House page: 424 yards publication date: 2005 Bar code: 9787201044361 Chinese text version: January 2005 paperback
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(Torbjørn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international rel...)
Torbjørn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace, wealth and power. The book counters the view that international relations has no theoretical tradition and shows that scholars, soldiers and statesmen have been speculating about the subject for the last 700 years. Beginning with the roots of the state and the concept of sovereignty in the Middle Ages, the author draws upon the insights of outstanding political thinkers. Clearly and succinctly the theories of Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hegel, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx and Lenin amongst others are discussed and analysed. The ideas of these thinkers are placed in context with the societies and intellectual ideas that produced them. The text is fully revised and updated to include the place of international relations after the Cold War and new ways of thinking opened up by developments in information technology.
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Knutsen, Torbjorn Lindstrom was born on January 21, 1952 in Arendal, Norway. Son of Sigvald Peder Knutsen and Elna Caroline Lindstrom.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Denver. Master of Arts, Georgetown University.
Assistant professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1986—1987, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 1988—1993. Associate professor University Trondheim, Norway, 1993—1999, professor Norway, since 1999. Visiting fellow Commonwealth of Independent States University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1987—1988.
Visiting researcher The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, 1993.
(Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics...)
(Publisher: Tianjin People's Publishing House page: 424 ya...)
(This introduction to International Relations shows how di...)
(Torbjørn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international rel...)
Member of British International Studies Association, International Studies Association, International Institute Strategic Studies.
Married Jennifer Bailey, June 23, 1985. Children: Irene Caroline, Peter Alexander.