Annual Editions: World Politics 10/11

by Purkitt, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780078050640
• ISBN10: 0078050642
• Edition: 31st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-12
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

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Table of Contents

Preface

Correlation Guide

Topic Guide

Internet References

The International System and Changing World Order of the Twenty-First Century

Unit Overview

The Age of Nonpolarity: What Will Follow U.S. Dominance?

America’s Edge: Power in the Networked Century

The China-U.S. Relationship Goes Global

India’s Path to Greatness

Managing Interstate Conflicts and the Proliferation of Weapons

Unit Overview

Alliances, Balance of Power, and the Use of Force

The Russian-Georgian War: Implications for the Middle East

Europe and Russia: Up from the Abyss?

Israeli Military Calculations towards Iran

Proliferation of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Technology

The Long Road from Prague

The Terrorist Threat to Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons

Evolving Bioweapon Threats Require New Countermeasures

Foreign Policy Decision Making

Unit Overview

Obama’s Foreign Policy: The End of the Beginning

In Search of Sustainable Security: Linking National Security, Human Security, and Collective Security to Protect America and Our World

The Petraeus Doctrine

Great Power Interstate Conflicts and Rivalries

Unit Overview

No Time for a Time-Out in Europe

The Unbalanced Triangle: What Chinese-Russian Relations Mean for the United States

Lifting the Bamboo Curtain

North-South Interstate Conflicts and Rivalries

Unit Overview

Obama’s Vietnam

Somali Piracy: A Nasty Problem, a Web of Responses

We Can’t Afford to Ignore Myanmar

Not Your Father’s Latin America

Conflicts among Nation-States in the Global South, Sub-National Conflicts, and the Role of Non-State Actors in an Interdependent World

Unit Overview

Factors Affecting Stability in Northern Iraq

The Most Dangerous Place in the World

Reading Twitter in Tehran?: Why the Real Revolution Is on the Streets -and Offline

Asymmetric Conflicts: Trends in Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Unit Overview

Al-Qa`ida’s Pakistan Strategy

Al-Qaeda at 20 Dead or Alive?

Three Pillars of Counterinsurgency

Contemporary Foreign Policy Debates

Unit Overview

All Counterinsurgency Is Local

Afghanistan, Iraq, and U.S. Strategy in 2009

International Organizations, International Law, and Global Governance

Unit Overview

Minilateralism, Mois¿s Na’m, Foreign Policy, July/August 2009

The Responsibility to Protect: Meeting the Challenges

The International Economic System

Unit Overview

The $1.4 Trillion Question

China to the Rescue: Growing out of the Financial Crisis

Africa and the Global Economic Crisis: Threats, Opportunities, and Responses

Trade Wars Brewing in Economic Malaise: Outrage in Canada as U.S. Firms Sever Ties to Obey Stimulus Rules

Globalizing Issues

Unit Overview

The Seven Terrors of the World

The Low-Carbon Diet

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