Annual Editions: World Politics 11/12

by Purkitt, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780078050930
• ISBN10: 0078050936
• Edition: 32nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• 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

Europe, the Second Superpower

Is Beijing Ready for Global Leadership?

The Elephant in the Room

Managing Interstate Conflicts and the Proliferation of Weapons

Unit Overview

Alliances, Balance of Power and the Use of Force

Europe and Russia: Up from the Abyss?

In the Koreas, Five Possible Ways to War

Proliferation of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Technology

Obama's Nuclear Policy: Limited Change

After Iran Gets the Bomb

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 Interests to Protect America and Our World

A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control

DOD's Energy Challenge as Strategic Opportunity

Great Power Interstate Conflicts and Rivalries

Unit Overview

The OSCE and the 2010 Crisis in Kyrgyzstan, CSIS-IND TASK FORCE, CSIS's Institute for New Democracies, May 14, 2010

Chinese Military Seeks to Extend Its Naval Power

The False Religion of MidEast Peace

North-South Interstate Conflicts and Rivalries

Unit Overview

The Next Empire

"Obama and Latin America: New Beginnings, Old Frictions,"

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

Unit Overview

Organized Crime in Iraq: Strategic Surprise and Lessons for Future Contingencies

The Cocaine Coast

Africa's Forever Wars

Asymmetric Conflicts: Trends in Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Unit Overview

Profiling: Sketching the Face of Jihadism

Al-Shabab's Agenda in the Wake of the Kampala Suicide Attacks

Three Pillars of Counterinsurgency

Combating Terrorism with SocioEconomics: Leveraging the Private Sector

Contemporary Foreign Policy Debates

Unit Overview

Defining Success in Afghanistan: What Can the United States Accept?

All Counterinsurgency Is Local

International Organizations, International Law, and Global Governance

Unit Overview

Millennium Development Goals: At a Glance, UN Department of Public Information, April 2010

The African Standby Force, Genocide, and International Relations Theory

"Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect,"

The International Economic System

Unit Overview

China to the Rescue: Growing out of the Financial Crisis

Can the BRICs Become a Bloc?

Globalizing Issues

Unit Overview

The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World

The World's Water Challenge

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