World Politics Trend and Transformation,9780312247355

World Politics Trend and Transformation

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Edition: 8th
ISBN13: 9780312247355
ISBN10: 0312247354
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-08-04
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This best-selling introduction to international relations features the most recent scholarship and up-to-date analysis of world events-framed by a highly accessible introduction to theory-in the only four-color book in its market.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Controversy Boxes and Maps xxiv
About the Authors xxvii
PART I: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION IN WORLD POLITICS 1(50)
Exploring Twenty-First-Century World Politics
3(22)
Theories of World Politics
25(26)
PART II: THE ACTORS AND THEIR RELATIONS 51(192)
Foreign Policy Decision Making
53(32)
Great-Power Rivalries and Relations
85(38)
The Plight and Policy Posture of the Global South
123(48)
Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
171(30)
The Promise and Peril of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
201(42)
PART III: THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WELFARE 243(162)
Trade and Monetary Issues in a Globalized Political Economy
245(46)
Globalization and the Disappearance of National Borders
291(38)
Population Politics and the Demographic Dimensions of Globalization
329(34)
Ecopolitics and the Preservation of the Global Commons
363(42)
PART IV: GLOBAL CONFLICT AND ITS MANAGEMENT 405(244)
Armed Conflict between and within States
407(48)
Military Power and National Security in the Age of Globalization
455(52)
Coercive Diplomacy and Intervention in a World of Vanishing Borders
507(42)
The Realist Road to Security through Alliances, the Balance of Power, and Arms Control
549(46)
The Liberal Institutional Paths to Peace
595(54)
PART V: THE PROBLEMATIC TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 649(2)
Ten Questions about Twenty-First-Century Global Prospects
651
Glossary G-1
References R-1
Acknowledgments A-1
Index I-1

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