Charles W. Kegley, Jr. (Ph.D. Syracuse University, B.A. American University) is a past president of the International Studies Association, who has served on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for the last two decades. He holds the title of Pearce Distinguished Professor of International Relations Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, where he was Chairman of the Department of Government and International Studies and Co-Chair, with former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, of the Byrnes International Center. A former Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Kegley previously served on the faculty at Georgetown University, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Texas, Rutgers University, the People’s University of China, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as the editor of The SAGE International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies, and has authored or edited over four dozen books on foreign policy and world politics, including eighteen editions of World Politics: Trend and Transformation, which has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Great Powers and World Order encourages critical thinking about the nature of world order by presenting the historical information and theoretical concepts needed to make projections about the global future. Charles W. Kegley and Gregory Raymond ask students to compare retrospective cases and formulate their own hypotheses about not only the causes of war, but also the consequences of peace settlements. Historical case studies open a window to see what strategies for constructing world order were tried before, why one course of action was chosen over another, and how things turned out. By moving back and forth in each case study between history and theory, rather than treating them as separate topics, the authors hope to situate the assumptions, causal claims, and policy prescriptions of different schools of thought within the temporal domains in which they took root, giving the reader a better sense of why policy makers embraced a particular view of world order instead of an alternative vision.
