Part I Overview
Chapter 1 - Introduction: Trends, Actors, Perspectives and Concepts
Trends
Globalization interdependence
Crises of authority
Connections and cautions
Actors
Perspectives
How Realists see the world
How Pluralists or Liberals see the world
How Globalists-Global Economic Structuralists-see the world
How Others see the world-the English School, Social Constructionists, and Feminists
International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy, Identity
What is Theory and Why Should You Care?
Critical and Postmodern Challenges to Positivist Science
Assessing the Challenge to Mainstream Science and Positivism
Normative Theory
Chapter 2 - International Relations and World Politics in Historical Perspective
International Systems: Definition and Scope
Historical International Systems: An Overview
The Persian Empire
Classical Greece: Independent state and hegemonic systems
India: Independent state and imperial systems
The Roman Empire
Medieval Europe and the feudal system
The Rise of the European Independent State System
The emergence of collective hegemony
The globalization of the European system
Twentieth-Century Hegemonic Systems in a Global Context
Dual Hegemony During the Cold War: A Closer Look
Part II STATE SECURITY AND STATECRAFT
Chapter 3 - Interests, Objectives, and Power of States
Framework: Interests, Objectives, Threats, and Opportunities
Elements of the framework
Policy-making conflicts over interests and objectives
Prioritization of objectives
Competing domestic and foreign policy objectives
States versus other actors
Capabilities and Power: Translating Objectives into Realities
Political capabilities
Social and cultural capabilities
Geographic, economic, and technological capabilities
Military capabilities
Measuring power
Chapter 4 - Diplomacy: Managing Relations Among States
Definition and Scope
Diplomacy, Private Citizens, and NGOs
The Historical Development of Diplomacy
Diplomatic Machinery and Processes
Recognition of states and governments
Diplomatic immunities and protections
The organization of diplomatic missions
Diplomatic incentives and disincentives
The ways and means of diplomatic communications
Chapter 5 - Military Force: War, Just Wars, and Armed Intervention
The Rationalities and Irrationalities of Interstate War
The Causes of War
International system level of analysis
Individual and group levels of analysis
State and societal levels of analysis
National Strategy and the Use of Force
Restraining War: Moral and Legal Principles and the Use of Force
Pacificism and bellicism
Just-war theory
Conduct during war
Noncombatants
Law, Armed Intervention, and World Politics
Intervention and civil wars
Humanitarian intervention
Law, Force, and National Security
Part III - INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Chapter 6 - International Cooperation and Security: International Organizations, Alliances, and Coalitions
Anarchy, Cooperation, Harmony, and Discord
World government
Alliances, coalitions, and international organizations
Collective security
Peacekeeping: Managing and Controlling Conflicts
Functional Collaboration in Specialized Agencies, Other International
Organizations, and Regimes
Chapter 7 - Controlling Global Armaments
Disarmament and Arms Control
Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance
Alternative Deterrence Doctrines
Minimum or finite deterrence
Minimum deterrence: India, Pakistan, and other new nuclear weapons states
Deterrence through assured (and mutually assured) destruction and defensive efforts to limit damage
Defense
Warfighting
The end of the cold war and implication for arms control, deterrence, defense, and warfighting doctrines
Deterrence theory: Some concerns
Weapons Proliferation
Nuclear weapons and materiel
Chemical and biological weapons
Ballistic missiles
Conventional weapons
Chapter 8 - International Terrorism and Transnational Crime
Terrorism
Causes of terrorism
Extent of terrorism
Changing nature of terrorism
Responses
Transnational Crime and Globalization
Case study: The United States, Latin America, and drugs
Part IV CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Chapter 9 - An Emerging Global Civil Society: International Law,
International Organization, and Globalization
The Globalization of International Relations and World Politics
The Emergence of a State-Centric Global Society
International Law and Multilateral Institutions
Constructing Global Civil Society: A Multicentury Project
Diplomacy and security: Matters of war and peace
Economic and commercial matters
Growth areas in international law: Human rights and
the environment
Chapter 10 - Global Economy: Politics and Capitalism
Global Political Economy
The Emergence and Development of Capitalism as a Worldwide
Form of Political Economy
Identifying the attributes of capitalist political economy
The passing of feudalism and the new politics of capitalism, mercantilism, and
liberalism
The progressive globalization of capitalism
The Twentieth-Century Debate on Global Commerce
The North-South Divide
A Look Ahead
Chapter 11 - The Political Economy of International Trade, Money, and Regional Integration
Classical Trade Theory and Comparative Advantage
Neoclassical and Subsequent Economic Thought on How the Global Political Economy Works
The impact of technological innovation on free-trade theory
Trade and Finance
An International Monetary Regime for Financing International Commerce
International organizations and international monetary regime maintenance
Political choices: How much capital should the IMF have and for what purposes?
Political choices: what next for the WTO?
Regional Economic Integration and Global Commerce
EC and EU enlargement: widening the geographic scope vs. deepening the level of integration
Is Europe unique?
Chapter 12 - The Political Economy of Investment and Sustainable Development
Optimists and Pessimists
Third World Poverty and Capital Formation
Aid
Loans
Direct Foreign Investment
Trade
Other Constraints: population growth, environment, health, conflicts
Globalist Critiques and Perspectives
Dependency Theory
Capitalist World-System Theory
Part V IDENTITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Chapter 13-The Global Environment
A Global Perspective
Atmosphere
Land
Forests
Biodiversity
Freshwater
Coastal and Marine Areas
The Environment and Security
International Organizations and the Environment
Transnational Organizations and the Environment
Global Population
Chapter 14 - Religion, Nationalism and Conflicting Identities
Religion
Islam
Nations, Ethnic Groups, and States
Nations and nationalism
Binational states
Multinational, multitribal, and other multiethnic states
Nation-states and nations without states
Approaches to Dealing with Nationalism and Ethnicity
National self-determination
Alternative approaches to maintaining unity in binational, multinational, and multiethnic states
Social and Economic Approaches to Intercommunal Peace
Chapter 15 - Humanitarianism: Human Rights and Refugees
Human Rights and the Human Condition
Justice: The Universality of Human Rights versus State Sovereignty
Human rights and the liberal tradition
Human rights across cultures
Culturally specific rights and values
Toward Global Society and Values That Transcend Diverse Cultures
From theory to fact
Machinery for human rights issues and cases
Regional human rights efforts in Europe
Other regional human rights efforts
NGOs and human rights
Refugees
An international regime for refugees
Chapter 16 - Questions in Lieu of Conclusions
