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Great Powers and International Hierarchy

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Authors:
  1. Daniel McCormack

    1. Austin, USA

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  • Demonstrates that domestic political outcomes are critically mediated by hierarchical institutions

  • Reveals that the particular pattern of hierarchical institutions that emerges in a given time period is a function of a larger great power bargain

  • Provides a framework for understanding hierarchical institutions that will guide research moving forward

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 1-32

  3. Structural Analogies in International Relations

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 33-59

  4. Hierarchy Throughout History

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 61-85

  5. The Shifting Territorial Logic of Hierarchy

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 87-118

  6. Maintaining Hierarchy

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 119-152

  7. Extending Hierarchy

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 153-185

  8. Eclipsing Hierarchy

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 187-218

  9. Conclusion: Hierarchy and Political Violence in the International System

    • Daniel McCormack
    Pages 219-241

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 243-246
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About this book

Hierarchical relationships—rules that structure both international and domestic politics—are pervasive. Yet we know little about how these relationships are constructed, maintained, and dismantled. This book fills this lacuna through a two-pronged research approach: first, it discusses how great power negotiations over international political settlements both respond to domestic politics within weak states and structure the specific forms that hierarchy takes. Second, it deduces three sets of hypotheses about hierarchy maintenance, construction, and collapse during the post-war era. By offering a coherent theoretical model of hierarchical politics within weaker states, the author is able to answer a number of important questions, including: Why does the United States often ally with autocratic states even though its most enduring relationships are with democracies? Why do autocratic hierarchical relationships require interstate coercion? Why do some hierarchies end violently and others peacefully? Why does hierarchical competition sometimes lead to interstate conflict and sometimes to civil conflict?

Authors and Affiliations

  • Austin, USA

    Daniel McCormack

About the author

Daniel McCormack was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His current research focuses on political violence in America.

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