World Politics The Menu for Choice (with InfoTrac)

, by Russett, Bruce; Starr, Harvey; Kinsella, David

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ISBN: 9780534604080 | 0534604080
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Copyright: 12/13/2002

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WORLD POLITICS provides students with the tools they need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations. It incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an accessible introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations. The text, tables, and figures have been thoroughly updated and new material has been added which relates conceptual and analytic tools to contemporary developments in world affairs.

Preface

About the Authors

xvii

Part I ANALYZING WORLD POLITICS

(192)

World Politics: Levels of Analysis, Choice, and Constraint

(22)

Three Momentous Events

(7)

Dropping the Atomic Bomb

(2)

Ending the Cold War

(2)

The Asian Financial Crisis

(3)

Levels of Analysis

(9)

International System and the Nation-State

(1)

Six Levels of Analysis

(4)

Actors in World Politics

(3)

The ``Menu'': Choice and Constraint in World Politics

(4)

Opportunity and Willingness

(3)

The Menu

(1)

Plan of the Book

(2)

Thinking About World Politics: Theory and Reality

(22)

Realists, Liberals, and Radicals

(5)

Recent Challenges

(1)

Social Scientific Study of World Politics

(3)

Comparison and Generalization

(2)

Theory and Evidence

(7)

Hypotheses and Assumptions

(3)

Specifying and Testing Hypotheses

(3)

Facts and Values

(2)

The Study and Practice of World Politics

(5)

The Question of Policy Relevance

(3)

International Actors: States and Other Players on the World Stage

(24)

Humans in Groups: Nationalism and the Nation

(4)

The State as International Actor

(9)

Modern State System

(2)

Sovereignty and the Nature of the State

(4)

Evolving Anarchy: The State System since Westphalia

(3)

All States Are Equal (but Some States Are More Equal Than Others)

(3)

Nonstate Actors in the Contemporary System

(8)

Intergovernmental Organizations

(4)

Nongovernmental Organizations

(1)

Multinational Corporations

(1)

Nation-State versus Nonstate Loyalty

(2)

The World System: International Structure and Polarity

(27)

The International Environment

(3)

Geopolitical Setting

(2)

Technological Setting

(1)

The Global System

(4)

Emergence of the Contemporary System

(2)

Status and Hierarchy in the International System

(6)

Spheres of Influence

(2)

Alliances

(3)

Nonalignment

(1)

Polarity in the International System

(10)

Polarization and the Cold War

(2)

Limits to Bipolarity

(2)

Polarity and International Stability

(3)

Balances and Imbalances of Power

(4)

Hegemony and World Order

(2)

Relations Between States: Power and Influence

(31)

Two Aspects of Power

(6)

Power and Influence

(2)

Soft Power

101

(2)

Power and Capability

103

(1)

National Capabilities: Tangible Elements

104

(7)

Geography and Demography

104

(2)

Economic and Military Resources

106

(2)

Comparing Capabilities: Indexes of Power

108

(3)

National Capabilities: Intangible Elements

111

(4)

Intelligence

113

(2)

Diplomatic Influence

115

(8)

Negotiation and Bargaining

118

(3)

Conflict Resolution

121

(2)

Military Influence

123

(2)

Use of Force

124

(1)

Economic Influence

125

(4)

Coercion and Rewards

126

(3)

Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: Society and Polity

129

(31)

Foreign Policy: What It Is and How We Study It

129

(4)

Goals and Objectives of Foreign Policy

131

(1)

National Interests and Priorities

132

(1)

Societal Influences on Foreign Policy

133

(8)

Political and Strategic Culture

136

(3)

Power Elite or Pluralism?

139

(2)

Elite Opinion and Foreign Policy

141

(3)

Content of Elite Opinion

141

(3)

The Impact of Mass Public Opinion

144

(12)

The Gender Gap

146

(2)

Public Approval of State Leaders

148

(5)

Do Wars Win Elections?

153

(3)

Who Governs? Public Opinion Matters

156

(4)

Individuals and World Politics: Roles, Perceptions, and Decision Making

160

(33)

Rational Decision Making

160

(6)

Risk Taking

163

(3)

Governmental Decision Making

166

(10)

Information: Searching, Screening, Processing

170

(1)

Organizations and Bureaucracies

171

(3)

Principals and Agents

174

(2)

Small Group Interaction

176

(2)

Individual Perceptions and Beliefs

178

(8)

Selective Perception and Misperception

180

(2)

Image of the Enemy

182

(3)

Ideologies and Belief Systems

185

(1)

Personality and Physiology

186

(5)

Private Motives and Public Objects

188

(1)

Stress and Strain of Foreign Policy Making

189

(2)

Conclusion to Part I

191

(2)

Part II INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND COOPERATION

193

(148)

Military Conflict: Why States and Other Actors Resort to Force

195

(37)

Violent Conflict in World Politics

195

(6)

Human Aggression

197

(1)

Relative Deprivation and Aggression

198

(3)

Conflict between States

201

(15)

Domestic Economic Structure and War

205

(6)

System Polarity and War

211

(2)

System Transformation and War

213

(3)

Conflict within States

216

(8)

Ethnopolitics, Rebellion, and Civil War

217

(7)

Unconventional Conflict

224

(8)

International Terrorism

225

(4)

Information Warfare

229

(3)

The Security Dilemma: Armament and Disarmament

232

(39)

Armed Forces

232

(7)

Arms Acquisition

233

(4)

Global Military Presence

237

(2)

Weapons of Mass Destruction

239

(8)

A Brief History of the Nuclear Competition

240

(5)

Proliferation

245

(2)

The Security Dilemma

247

(9)

The Prisoner's Dilemma

248

(3)

Overcoming the Dilemma

251

(2)

Repeated Encounters

253

(3)

Deterrence

256

(6)

Crisis Instability

258

(1)

Brinkmanship

259

(3)

Arms Control and Disarmament

262

(9)

Nuclear Arms Control

263

(6)

Controlling Conventional Weapons and Technology

269

(2)

International Law and Organization

271

(39)

Ethics and War

271

(10)

Realism and Pacifism

272

(1)

Just Wars

273

(4)

Was the Gulf War a Just War?

277

(2)

Ethics of Deterrence

279

(2)

International Law

281

(7)

Naturalism, Positivism, and Realism

281

(2)

Sources, Functions, and Subjects of International Law

283

(2)

Enforcing International Law

285

(3)

Human Rights and Human Wrongs

288

(9)

International Human Rights

289

(3)

Humanitarian Intervention

292

(2)

International Criminals

294

(3)

International Organization

297

(2)

Roles for International Organizations

298

(1)

The United Nations System

299

(11)

Structure and Politics

300

(5)

Collective Security and Peacekeeping

305

(3)

The ``Three United Nations''

308

(2)

Causes of Peace and Nonviolent Transformation

310

(31)

The Zone of Peace

310

(4)

Peace: Salaam or Sulah?

312

(2)

The Democratic Peace

314

(3)

Cultural and Structural Explanations

315

(2)

Perpetual Peace

317

(11)

Economic Interdependence and Growth

323

(3)

International Organizations

326

(2)

Integration and Peace

328

(5)

Transnational Cooperation

328

(3)

Transnational Communication

331

(1)

Security Communities

332

(1)

Zones of Turmoil

333

(5)

Dangerous Democratic Transitions?

335

(3)

Conclusion to Part II

338

(3)

Part III INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

341

(134)

Political Economy of National Security and Defense

343

(32)

Approaches to Political Economy

343

(3)

Realism, Liberalism, and Radicalism

344

(2)

Economics and Statecraft

346

(8)

Economic Coercion

347

(5)

National Competition and Geo-economics

352

(2)

Political Economy of Defense

354

(13)

The Military-Industrial Complex

355

(3)

Defense-Industrial Policy

358

(2)

Guns versus Butter

360

(4)

A Peace Dividend?

364

(3)

The International Arms Market

367

(8)

Global Arms Transfers

368

(3)

Proliferation of Military Technology

371

(4)

Interdependence and Economic Order

375

(33)

Interdependence

375

(4)

Sensitivity and Vulnerability

376

(2)

Conflict and Harmony

378

(1)

International Trade

379

(4)

Comparative Advantage and Free Trade

379

(2)

Protectionism

381

(2)

Collective Goods

383

(7)

Free Riders

386

(2)

Strategies for Achieving Collective Goods

388

(2)

Regimes and International Order

390

(11)

Hegemony and Regimes

392

(2)

The Monetary Regime

394

(4)

The Trade Regime

398

(3)

Economic Disorder and Realignment

401

(7)

A Hegemonic Decline

402

(3)

Enduring Order

405

(3)

Regional Economic Integration and Globalization

408

(33)

European Union

408

(11)

From Rome to Maastricht

409

(5)

Institutions of the European Union

414

(2)

Monetary Union

416

(2)

Political Economy of the Euro

418

(1)

Emerging Economic Blocs

419

(10)

North American Free Trade Area

420

(3)

Other Trading Blocs

423

(1)

Regionalism and Multilateralism

424

(5)

Globalization

429

(12)

A New Interdependence?

429

(4)

Transnational Relations

433

(3)

Globalization's Downside

436

(5)

Development and Underdevelopment: The North-South Gap

441

(34)

The Development Gap

441

(6)

Several Developing Worlds

442

(3)

Demographics, Disease, and Geography

445

(2)

Dependent Development

447

(8)

Contemporary Dependence

448

(4)

The Debt Problem

452

(1)

Beyond Dependence: Self-Reliance and Basic Needs

453

(2)

A New International Economic Order?

455

(8)

International Market Reforms

456

(2)

Industrialization

458

(2)

Debt Relief and Development Assistance

460

(1)

Dealing with Financial Crises

461

(2)

Development and Political Freedom

463

(11)

Dependency and State Repression

463

(2)

Development and Democracy: Conventional Wisdom

465

(2)

Democracy and Development: A New Wisdom?

467

(7)

Conclusion to Part III

474

(1)

Part IV CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM

475

(44)

Limits of Sovereignty: Humanity and the Commons

477

(34)

Collective Goods and Collective ``Bads''

477

(11)

Externalities and ``Forced Riders''

478

(1)

Tragedy of the Commons

479

(6)

Sustainable Development

485

(3)

Population and Demographics

488

(6)

Population Explosion

488

(3)

Demographic Transition

491

(3)

Resource Depletion

494

(6)

Food Insecurity

494

(2)

Natural Resources

496

(4)

Environmental Decay

500

(5)

Pollution

500

(3)

Deforestation and the Threat to Biodiversity

503

(1)

Dilemmas of Development

504

(1)

Obligations and Rights

505

(6)

International Distributive Justice

506

(2)

Limits of Sovereignty

508

(3)

Which Global Future?

511

(8)

Three Futures

511

(6)

The West Has Won

512

(1)

Coming Culture Clash

513

(3)

Globalization and Fragmentation

516

(1)

A Final Word

517

(2)

Glossary

519

(9)

Appendix A: Chronology of World Events

528

(5)

Appendix B: Characteristics of States in the Contemporary International System

533

(8)

Name Index

541

(6)

Subject Index

547

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