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Reasons of State

AUTHOR Ikenberry, G. John
PUBLISHER Cornell University Press (08/23/1988)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)
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In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973-74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.
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ISBN-13: 9780801421556
ISBN-10: 0801421551
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 234
Carton Quantity: 24
Product Dimensions: 6.00 x 0.69 x 9.00 inches
Weight: 1.13 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Science | Energy
Science | Political Economy
Science | United States - 20th Century
Grade Level: College Freshman and up
Dewey Decimal: 333.790
Library of Congress Control Number: 88003660
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In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973-74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.

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Author: Ikenberry, G. John
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Co-Director of Princeton's Center for International Security Studies. Professor Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea and, in 2013 14, he will be the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Professor Ikenberry has written and edited several books including After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association for the best book in international history and politics and Unipolarity and International Relations Theory (Cambridge, 2011).
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