World Politics Trend and Transformation (with International Relations Interactive CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

by Kegley, Charles W.; Wittkopf, Eugene R.

• ISBN13: 9780534574420
• ISBN10: 0534574424
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-12
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

World Politics: Trend Transformation, Ninth Edition, raises important questions about terrorism and peace, warfare and national security, the economic impact of war, human suffering, and even your role in international politics. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Controversy boxes and maps

Preface

About the Authors

Part I: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION IN WORLD POLITICS

1. Exploring Twenty-First Century World Politics

2. Theories of World Politics

Part II: THE GLOBE'S ACTORS AND THEIR RELATIONS

3. Foreign Policy Decision Making

4. Great-Power Rivalries and Relations

5. Nonstate Actors in the Interstate System

6. The Global South in a World of Powers

Part III: THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WELFARE

7. Humans and Global Challenges to the Protection of Human Rights

8. Does Globalization Spell the End of Borders as Boundaries? 9

Markets and Money in the New Global Political Economy

10. Population Pressure, Resource Depletion, and the Preservation of the Global Environment

Part IV: MILITARY CONFLICT AND ITS CONTROL

11. The New Face of Twenty-First-Century Armed Conflict

12. Military Power and National Security in the Age of Globalized Terrorism

13. Coercive Diplomacy and Intervention in the Age of Global Terrorism

14. The Realist Road to Security Through Alliances, the Balance of Power, and Arms Control

15. The Liberal Institutional Paths to Peace

Part V: THE PROBLEMATIC TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

16. Ten Questions About Twenty-First-Century Global Prospects Toward the Future: Critical Questions at the Start of the New Millennium

References

Index

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