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The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of IR Theory
Michael Sheehan
Cosmological Viewpoints., Pages: 227 - 231
Swansea University Author: Michael Sheehan
Abstract
The unifying realist theory of international relations is balance of power. This paper explains how the zeiteist of the scientific revolution and its vocabulary, encouraged the spread of the balance of power concept from Italy to northern Europe in the early seventeenth century.
| Published in: | Cosmological Viewpoints. |
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| ISBN: | 978-954-07-4043-0 |
| Published: |
2015
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29579 |
| Abstract: |
The unifying realist theory of international relations is balance of power. This paper explains how the zeiteist of the scientific revolution and its vocabulary, encouraged the spread of the balance of power concept from Italy to northern Europe in the early seventeenth century. |
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| Item Description: |
Publisher: St Kliment Ohridsky University Press, Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| Keywords: |
International theory, scientific revolution, balance of power. |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
227 |
| End Page: |
231 |