What are the prospects for cooperation or cooperation in the international system? Will states always be primarily concerned with their own security or is progressive change possible in international politics? Does it matter to international politics if states are democratic or not? And what is the importance of economic change, or gender relations to international politics? In the following seven films, some of the world's leading experts on international relations explore what determines how states and their agents behave in a globalised world and the different theories and analyses that have been developed to make sense of today's international system.
Track 5: Uneven and combined development
Professor Justin Rosenberg from the University of Sussex discusses Uneven and combined development.
This is interesting but world events move very quickly and it currently feels as if the old world order has probably changed since this lecture was recorded. The advent of Mr Trump has resulted in Europe moving away from the USA as an ally.
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