Polarity, Balance of Power and International Relations Theory

Part I. Polarity, Neorealism and its Problems

1. Introduction: Multipolarity and Unipolarity after the Cold War
Goedele De Keersmaeker

2. Polarity: The Emergence and Development of a Concept
Goedele De Keersmaeker

Part II. Polarity in the Cold War, the 19th Century and Today

3. The Bipolar Cold War and Polarity Theory
Goedele De Keersmaeker

4. The Nineteenth Century: Multipolar, Bipolar or Unipolar?
Goedele De Keersmaeker

5. Polarity after 1990, a Historical Comparison
Goedele De Keersmaeker

Part III. Nineteenth-Century Balance of Power and Twenty-First-Century Multipolarity

6. The French Multipolarity Discourse
Goedele De Keersmaeker

7. American Hegemony, Empire and Unipolarity
Goedele De Keersmaeker

8. Multipolarity, Balance of Power and Universal Monarchy
Goedele De Keersmaeker

Part IV. Conclusions

9. Conclusions, the Relevance of Polarity Theory?
Goedele De Keersmaeker

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, International Relations, Political History, US Politics, European Politics