Power and Progress

<p>Jack Snyder is a leading American international relations scholar with an international reputation for his research on IR theory and US Foreign policy. This book collects many of his most important essays into a single volume.</p><p>Exploring a liberal realist theory of international politics the book is arranged around three key subject areas:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Anarchy and Its Effects</li> <li>The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation </li> <li>Empire and the Promotion of a Liberal Order</li> </ul><p>With a new introduction to frame the selected essays this collection examines how developing nations evolve political systems and fit into a world dominated by liberal-democracies. It looks to the future for the current dominant powers in a changing world of international relations and at the challenges to their leadership. Featuring a new conclusion developed from the assembled chapters this is a fascinating and vital collection of scholarship from one of the most influential theorists of his generation.</p><p><em>Power and Progress</em> is an invaluable text for students and scholars of international relations and those interested in the debates on liberalism and realism and comparative politics.</p>