World Politics Trend and Transformation

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.

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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