In the Shadow of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics

by Robert Powell

Book Overview

Robert Powell argues persuasively and elegantly for the usefulness of formal models in studying international conflict and for the necessity of greater dialogue between modeling and empirical analysis. Powell makes it clear that many widely made arguments about the way states act under threat do not hold when subjected to the rigors of modeling. In doing so, he provides a more secure foundation for the future of international relations theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691004579
• ISBN13: 9780691004570
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"