The Global Future A Brief Introduction to World Politics (with CD-ROM)

by Kegley, Charles W.; Raymond, Gregory A.

• ISBN13: 9780534536930
• ISBN10: 053453693X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-08
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

About the Authors. Preface. Part I: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION IN WORLD POLITICS. 1. Exploring the Twenty-First-Century World Politics. 2. Theories of World Politics. Part II: THE ACTORS IN WORLD POLITICS. 3. Foreign Policy Decision Making. 4. Great-Power Rivalry and the Lure of Hegemony: Cycles of War and Peace in Modern World History. 5. Rich and Poor in World Politics: The Plight of the Global South. 6. Nonstate Actors and the Challenge of Global Governance. Part III: THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL SECURITY. 7. Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. 8. Military Power and National Security in a Turbulent World. 9. Realist Paths to Peace: Alliance, Arms Control, and the Balance of Power. 10. Liberal Paths to Peace: International Law and Organization. Part IV: THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARFARE. 11. The Globalization of World Politics. 12. Markets and Money in a Global Political Economy. 13. Human Rights and the Quest for Global Justice. 14. Population Growth, Resource Scarcity, and the Preservation of the Global Environment. References. Index.

Table of Contents

Maps	xiv
Preface	xv
About the Authors	xxi
PART I TREND AND TRANSFORMATION IN WORLD POLITICS	2	(40)
Exploring Twenty-First-Century World Politics	4	(18)
Continuity and Change in World Politics	6	(4)
How Perceptions Influence Images of Reality	10	(4)
The Nature and Sources of Images	10	(1)
The Role of Images in World Politics	11	(1)
Controversy Should We Believe What We See?	12	(2)
A Framework for Examining World Politics	14	(4)
Levels of Analysis	14	(1)
Time Sequences	15	(1)
Applying the Framework to the Cold War's End	16	(2)
The Book's Approach: Actors, Issues, and their Interactions	18	(4)
Theories of World Politics	22	(20)
Contending Theories of World Politics	23	(1)
Realist Theory	24	(4)
The Realist Worldview	24	(2)
The Evolution of Realist Thought	26	(1)
The Limitations of Realism	27	(1)
Liberal Theory	28	(5)
The Liberal Worldview	28	(2)
The Evolution of Liberal Thought	30	(2)
The Limitations of Liberalism	32	(1)
Alternative Theories of World Politics	33	(5)
Socialism	34	(1)
Feminism	35	(1)
Controversy What's Missing in Mainstream Theories of Interstate Relations? The Feminist Critique	36	(1)
Constructivism	36	(2)
Forecasting the Global Future with Theories of World Politics	38	(4)
PART II THE ACTORS IN WORLD POLITICS	42	(106)
Foreign Policy Decision Making	44	(20)
Explaining Foreign Policy	47	(2)
The Emergence of the Modern State System	47	(1)
The Determinants of States' Foreign Policy Behavior	48	(1)
International Sources of Foreign Policy	49	(2)
Polarity and Polarization	49	(1)
Geostrategic Position	50	(1)
Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy	51	(5)
Military Capabilities	51	(1)
Economic Conditions	51	(1)
Type of Government	52	(2)
Organizational Processes	54	(2)
Individual Sources of Foreign Policy	56	(3)
Leaders as the Makers of the Global Future	56	(1)
Factors Affecting the Capacity to Lead	57	(1)
Controversy Policy and Personality: Do Leaders Make a Difference?	58	(1)
Constraints on the Foreign Policy-Making Process	59	(5)
Great-Power Rivalry and the Lure of Hegemony: Cycles of War and Peace in Modern World History	64	(25)
Long Cycles of World Leadership	65	(3)
The First World War	68	(4)
The Causes of World War I	68	(2)
The Consequences of World War I	70	(2)
The Second World War	72	(5)
The Causes of World War II	72	(4)
The Consequences of World War II	76	(1)
The Cold War	77	(5)
The Causes and Evolutionary Course of the Cold War	77	(1)
Controversy Was Ideology the Primary Source of East-West Conflict?	78	(4)
The Consequences of the Cold War	82	(1)
The Future of Great-Power Politics	82	(7)
America's Unipolar Moment	82	(3)
From Unipolarity to Multipolarity?	85	(4)
Rich and Poor in World Politics: The Plight of the Global South	89	(28)
Global Inequalities	91	(1)
The Colonial Experience of the Global South	92	(7)
The First Wave of European Imperialism	93	(2)
The Second Wave of European Imperialism	95	(3)
Self-Determination and Decolonization	98	(1)
North and South Today: Worlds Apart	99	(2)
Why Do North-South Disparities Persist?	101	(3)
Internal Factors: Classical Economic Development Theory's Interpretation	101	(1)
External Factors: Dependence Theory's Interpretation	102	(1)
Can the Economic Gap Be Closed?	103	(1)
The Global South's Foreign Policy Response	104	(10)
In Search of Security	104	(1)
In Search of Prosperity	105	(6)
Controversy Multinational Corporations in the Global South: Do They Help or Hurt?	111	(3)
The Future of the Global South	114	(3)
Nonstate Actors and the Challenge of Global Governance	117	(31)
Types of Nonstate Actors	118	(3)
Global Intergovernmental Organizations	121	(9)
The United Nations	121	(5)
Other Prominent Global IGOs	126	(4)
Regional Intergovernmental Organizations	130	(4)
The European Union	130	(2)
Other Regional IGOs	132	(2)
Nongovernmental Organizations	134	(10)
Ethnopolitical Groups	135	(1)
Religious Movements	135	(3)
Controversy Are Religious Movements Causes of War or Sources of Transnational Harmony?	138	(2)
Multinational Corporations and Transnational Banks	140	(1)
Issue-Advocacy Groups and Global Civil Society	141	(3)
Nonstate Actors and the Global Future	144	(4)
PART III THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL SECURITY	148	(104)
Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century	150	(24)
Trends in Armed Conflict	152	(2)
What Causes War?	154	(10)
The First Level of Analysis: Human Nature	154	(2)
The Second Level of Analysis: Internal Characteristics of States	156	(2)
Controversy Does Nationalistic Love of Country Cause War With Foreign Nations?	158	(4)
The Third Level of Analysis: System Structure and Processes	162	(1)
Power Distributions	162	(1)
Power Trajectories and Transitions	163	(1)
The Changing Face of Warfare	164	(10)
The New Global Terrorism	167	(3)
Counterterrorism	170	(4)
Military Power and National Security in a Turbulent World	174	(28)
Power in World Politics	175	(2)
The Elements of State Power	176	(1)
Globalization and the Changing Nature of State Power	176	(1)
The Pursuit of Military Capability	177	(10)
Controversy Does High Military Spending Lower Human Security?	178	(2)
Trends in Military Spending	180	(1)
Trends in the Weapons Trade	181	(1)
Trends in Weapons Technology	182	(5)
Military Strategy in the Nuclear Age	187	(4)
Compellence	188	(1)
Deterence	189	(1)
Preemption	190	(1)
The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy	191	(7)
Military Intervention	193	(1)
Economic Sanctions	194	(4)
Building World Security	198	(4)
Realist Paths to Peace: Alliances, Arms Control, and the Balance of Power	202	(23)
Realism and the Balancing of Power	204	(5)
Assumptions of Balance-of-Power Theory	204	(3)
Controversy Are Alliances Worth the Costs and Risks?	207	(1)
Managing the Balance through a Concert of Great Powers	208	(1)
Stabilizing Power Balances through Arms Control	209	(5)
Arms Control Versus Disarmament	209	(1)
Bilateral Arms Control and Disarmament	210	(2)
Multilateral Arms Control and Disarmament	212	(1)
The Problematic Future of Arms Control and Disarmament	213	(1)
Balancing Power in the Contemporary International System	214	(11)
The Cold War Pattern of Direct Opposition	216	(1)
A Future of Balance-of-Power Competition?	217	(8)
Liberal Paths to Peace: International Law and Organization	225	(27)
International Law and World Order	226	(12)
Sovereignty and the Rules of International Law	228	(1)
The Limitations of International Law	229	(1)
International Law and the Preservation of Peace	230	(2)
Controversy Was the War in Iraq Just?	232	(6)
International Organization and World Order	238	(7)
The League of Nations and Collective Security	238	(2)
The United Nations and Peacekeeping	240	(1)
Regional Security Organizations and Collective Defense	241	(4)
Liberal Institutions and the Global Future	245	(7)
World Government	246	(1)
Regional Integration	246	(6)
PART IV THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WELFARE	252
The Globalization of World Politics	254	(22)
What Is Globalization?	256	(4)
The Global Information Age	256	(2)
Globalization or Americanization?	258	(2)
The Economics of Globalization	260	(9)
The Globalization of Trade	261	(4)
The Globalization of Finance	265	(4)
The Challenges of a Borderless World	269	(2)
Global Ecopolitics	269	(1)
Global Health	269	(1)
Global Migration	270	(1)
Global Governance or Backlash?	271	(5)
Controversy Does Globalization Mean the End of the Age of Nation-States?	272	(4)
Markets and Money in a Global Political Economy	276	(30)
Contending Economic Strategies for an Interdependent World	278	(5)
The Shadow of the Great Depression	279	(1)
The Clash between Liberal and Mercantile Values	279	(4)
Hegemony and the Management of the Global Economy	283	(3)
The Hegemonic Pillars of Open Markets and Free Trade	284	(1)
A Liberal Economic Order without Hegemonic Leadership?	285	(1)
The Changing Free-Trade Regime	286	(2)
Controversy Are World Trade Organization Economic Policies Consistent with Social and Environmental Protection?	288	(1)
The Changing International Monetary Regime	288	(7)
The Elements of Monetary Policy	289	(1)
The Bretton Woods Monetary System	290	(2)
The End of Bretton Woods	292	(2)
Plans for Reforming the International Financial Architecture	294	(1)
Global Economic Concerns in the Twenty-First Century	295	(11)
The Fate of Free Trade	295	(3)
Emerging Regional Trade Policies	298	(2)
The Future of Global Economic Governance	300	(6)
Human Rights and the Quest for Global Justice	306	(21)
Evaluating the Human Condition	308	(4)
The Democratic Underpinnings of Human Development	310	(1)
Human Development in an Age of Globalization	311	(1)
Human Rights and the Protection of People	312	(7)
The Subordinate Status of Women and its Consequences	312	(2)
The Precarious Life of Indigenous Peoples	314	(2)
The Global Refugee Crisis	316	(2)
Controversy What is Security?	318	(1)
Responding to Human Rights Abuses	319	(8)
Internationally Recognized Human Rights	319	(1)
The Challenge of Enforcement	320	(7)
Population Growth, Resource Scarcity, and the Preservation of the Global Environment	327
Population Growth as a Global Political Challenge	329	(7)
The Demographic Divide between the Global North and South	331	(4)
International Responses to Population Growth	335	(1)
Prospects for a Global Population Implosion	336	(1)
The Threat of Contagious Diseases	336	(1)
The Threat of Famine	336	(1)
Environmental Security and Sustainable Development	337	(15)
Controversy How Many People Can the Earth Support?	338	(2)
The Ecopolitics of Energy	340	(4)
The Ecopolitics of the Atmosphere	344	(5)
The Ecopolitics of Biodiversity	349	(3)
Future Environmental Policy Choices	352
Glossary	1	(1)
References	1	(1)
Index	1