World Politics in a New Era 5th Revised edition [Minkštas viršelis]

EACH CHAPTER ENDS WITH DISCUSSION AND REVIEW QUESTIONS AND KEY TERMS;
List of Maps; Special Features; Preface; PART
1. FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD
POLITICS; CHAPTER
1. WORLD POLITICS: COMPLEXITY AND COMPETING PROCESSES;
CONFLICT AND COOPERATION; GLOBALIZATION VERSUS FRAGMENTATION; ANARCHY VERSUS
ORDER; CONCLUSION; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? North Korea's Nuclear Test; CHAPTER
2.
THEORY AND WORLD POLITICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; Systemic Level
of Analysis; AT A GLANCE: The Prisoner's Dilemma Game; Domestic Level of
Analysis; Individual Level of Analysis; SPOTLIGHT: The Operational Code;
Levels of Analysis: Analytical Tools; THEORETICAL PARADIGMS/WORLDVIEWS;
Realism; Liberalism; Constructivism; Blurring the Lines; Other Theoretical
Paradigms/Worldviews; SUMMARY AND PREVIEW; AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis
and Paradigms in Review: International Responses to Climate Change; WHAT
WOULD YOU DO? Drilling for Oil; CHAPTER
3. WORLD POLITICS AND ECONOMICS:
1648-1945; THIRTY YEARS' WAR AND THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
EUROPE; Great Powers; Aftermath of War and Two Revolutions; AT A GLANCE:
"World Wars" of the Eighteenth Century; NAPOLEONIC ERA; CONCERT OF EUROPE;
UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY; Italian Unification; German Unification; AT
A GLANCE: The Wars of German Unification; THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; BRITISH
ECONOMIC HEGEMONY AND ITS CHALLENGES; BISMARCKIAN SYSTEM; THE EVE OF WAR:
PROTECTIONISM AND DISCORD; THE WORLD WARS; CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I; AT A
GLANCE: World War I and the Levels of Analysis; Rise of Germany; Alliance
System; Economic Change and Competition; Nationalism; Imperialism; Cult of
the Offensive; CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR I; Russian Revolution; Versailles
Settlement; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Russia and the Path to War; SPOTLIGHT: An
Idealist at Versailles; A Weak League and the Road to Another World War;
SPOTLIGHT: The Munich Analogy; Economic Collapse and the Great Depression;
CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II; AT A GLANCE: World War II and the Levels of Analysis;
CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR II; Uneasy Alliance; The Holocaust; Atomic Bomb;
CONCLUSION; AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Examples
from 1648 to 1945; CHAPTER
4. WORLD POLITICS AND ECONOMICS: THE COLD WAR; WHO
OR WHAT CAUSED THE COLD WAR?; AT A GLANCE: The Origins of the Cold War and
the Levels of Analysis; It Was Moscow's Fault; No, It Was Washington's Fault;
Ideological Conflict; Leadership or the Lack Thereof; One World Divided by
Two Superpowers Equals Conflict; It Was All a Misunderstanding; HEATING UP
THE COLD WAR; Initial Confrontation: Iran; The Iron Curtain Descends and
Conflict Intensifies?; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Berlin Blockade;
SPOTLIGHT: The Telegrams: Mr. X and Containment and the Novikov Telegram;
NATO and the Warsaw Pact; TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY; The Bretton
Woods System; THE COLD WAR IN ASIA; NSC-68; Korea: The Turning Point; THE
COLD WAR AND THE THIRD WORLD; TROUBLE SPOTS: BERLIN AND CUBA; JFK, Cold
Warrior; Berlin Wall; Cuban Missile Crisis; VIETNAM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES;
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Soviet Missiles in Cuba; THE APPARENT DECLINE OF U.S.
ECONOMIC HEGEMONY; DETENTE; The Opening of China, the Moscow Summit, and
SALT; Tensions in Detente; FROM DIALOGUE TO DISCORD; The Invasion of
Afghanistan; The Reagan Doctrine; WHY DID THE COLD WAR END?; AT A GLANCE: The
End of the Cold War and the Levels of Analysis; The Gorbachev Factor; Failure
of Communism; The End of the Evil Empire; The End of Bipolarity; CONCLUSION;
AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Examples from the
Cold War; CHAPTER
5. IMPERIALISM AND ITS VICTIMS; ORIGINS OF IMPERIALISM; THE
FIRST TRANSOCEANIC EMPIRES: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL; Colonial Collusion: Dividing
the World; Spanish Colonial Administration; Portuguese Colonialism;
Spanish-American Independence; Independence from Portugal; DUTCH EMPIRE;
ANGLO-FRENCH RIVALRY; France's Bid for Empire; BRITISH EMPIRE; WHAT WOULD YOU
DO? The Costs of Imperialism; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries;
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; SPOTLIGHT: British India; Twilight of
Empire; SPOTLIGHT: The Mahatma; TWO GREAT CONTINENTAL EMPIRES: RUSSIA AND THE
UNITED STATES; The Russians; Ninth through Eighteenth Centuries; Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries; The Americans; OTTOMAN EMPIRE; Fourteenth through
Eighteenth Centuries; Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; TOO LITTLE, TOO
LATE: GERMAN AND JAPANESE EMPIRES; DECLINE OF IMPERIALISM; SOCIAL IMPACT OF
IMPERIALISM; North America; The Caribbean; Latin America; Africa; Asia; The
Pacific; China and Japan; ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM; Latin
America, Africa, and the Pacific; Asia; Economic Consequences: An Assessment;
CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL IMPACT OF COLONIALISM; Colonialism and Culture;
Colonialism and Ideology; CONCLUSION; AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and
Paradigms in Review: Examples from Imperialism; CHAPTER
6. GLOBALIZATION AND
FRAGMENTATION IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER: 1991 TO THE PRESENT; GLOBALIZATION AND
FRAGMENTATION; A NEW WORLD ORDER?; War in the Gulf; The European Union; U.S.
Economic Hegemony Endures; Enduring Regional and Internal Conflicts: The
Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia; The Middle East; AT A GLANCE:
Arab-Israeli Confrontations; South Asia; The Korean Peninsula; The People's
Republic of China and Taiwan; Collective Security; SPOTLIGHT: Definitional
Discord: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Genocide in
Rwanda; THE TERROR OF SEPTEMBER 11; War in Iraq; Terrorism Redux; CONCLUSION;
AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Examples from 1991
to the Present; PART II. THE MAJOR ISSUES IN WORLD POLITICS; CHAPTER
7.
SECURITY THEORY AND PRACTICE; THE MANY FACES OF SECURITY; External and
Internal Threats; Subjective Versus Objective Aspects of Security; Working
Definition of Security; SECURITY DILEMMA REVISITED; SPOTLIGHT: Clausewitz on
War and Politics; MILITARY POWER; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Military
Personnel; Defense Expenditures; Logistics and Power Projection; Qualitative
Factors: Equipment, Training, and Morale; Soft Power; STRATEGIES FOR
SECURITY: DETERRENCE, DEFENSE, AND COMPELLENCE; Deterrence; Defense;
Compellence; REQUIREMENTS FOR DETERRENCE; Commitment; Capability;
Credibility; CRITICISMS OF DETERRENCE; Defensive Weapons Systems; TECHNOLOGY
AND SECURITY; Breakthroughs, Lead Times, and Cost; SPOTLIGHT: Nukespeak; The
Offense/Defense Balance; The Cutting Edge; ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT;
Definitions; Early Efforts at Disarmament; Test Bans; SALT, START, SORT, and
New START; Intermediate-Range and Tactical Nuclear Weapons; Cooperative
Threat Reduction; Non-Proliferation Treaty; Chemical Weapons, Biological
Weapons, and Missiles; Conventional Arms Control; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Nuclear
Proliferation; CONCLUSION; AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in
Review: Security Examples; CHAPTER
8. CONTEMPORARY SECURITY ISSUES;
PROLIFERATION; SPOTLIGHT: Human Costs of Modern Conflict; The Debate over
Proliferation; Command and Control; Current Proliferation Concerns;
TERRORISM; Contemporary Terrorism Around the World; SPOTLIGHT: The Sheikh;
Categories of Terrorist Groups; State-Sponsored Terrorism; Nationalist
Separatists; Ideological Terrorism; Religious Terrorism; Terrorism and
Weapons of Mass Destruction; Combating International Terrorism; WHAT WOULD
YOU DO? Response to Terrorism; ORGANIZED CRIME; What Is Organized Crime?;
Transnational Organized Crime Activities; The Globalization of Organized
Crime; SPOTLIGHT: The Red Mafiya Penalty Box and the NHL; SPOTLIGHT:
International Drug Trafficking; Combating Organized Crime; CONCLUSION; AT A
GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Contemporary Security
Examples; CHAPTER
9. WORLD POLITICS: TRADE AND INVESTMENT; TRADE; Ricardo's
Model of Trade; Trade Barriers; Balance of Payments; Money Makes the World Go
Around; Exchange Rates; CAPITAL MARKETS AND INVESTMENT; Capital Markets;
SPOTLIGHT: Day Traders Find New Outlet; Foreign Direct Investment; ECONOMIC
POWER; Trade and Industry; Technology; SPOTLIGHT: Technology Globalizes the
Workforce; ECONOMICS AS POLITICS; Realism; Liberalism; AT A GLANCE: East
African Countries Form a Common Market; Hegemonic Stability Theory: Bridging
the Liberal-Realist Divide; Constructivism; CONCLUSION; AT A GLANCE: Levels
of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Trade and Investment; WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
The Sock Trade; CHAPTER
10. WORLD POLITICS: DEVELOPMENT; WHAT DEVELOPMENT
MEANS; HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; Development: A Holistic Approach 3;
SPOTLIGHT: Gender Inequalities Harm Well-Being, Hinder Development; Civil
Society and Development; Modernization Theory; Social Impact of
Modernization; Critiques of Modernization Theory; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT;
Requirements of Political Development; Domestic: Political Culture; ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT; SPOTLIGHT: Tough Truths About Free Trade; Systemic: Dependency
Theory; Primary Product Exports; Unequal Terms of Trade; Multinational
Corporations; Critiques of Dependency Theory; Domestic: Economic Development
Theories; Import-Substitution Industrialization; Export-Led
Industrialization; AT A GLANCE: Argentina; Washington Consensus;
Systemic-Domestic; Structural Adjustment Programs; DEVELOPMENT TODAY;
Creating a New Paradigm; Searching for Practical Solutions: Technology;
SPOTLIGHT: Invention and Innovation; Searching for Practical Solutions:
Microfinance; Corruption Versus Courage; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Promoting
Development; CONCLUSION; AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in
Review: Development; CHAPTER
11. HUMAN ISSUES: DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS;
POPULATION; Population Growth and Decline: Impact of Youth; Bulges and Aging
Populations; Urbanization and Megacities; International Responses to
Population Dynamics: Importance of Family Planning; The Abortion Debate;
MIGRATION; Economic Migration; Refugees; Consequences of Migration;
International Solutions to Problems of Migration; SPOTLIGHT: Human
Trafficking; HEALTH AND DISEASE; The Global Health Picture; Responses to
Global Health Problems; CONCLUSION; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Avian Flu; AT A
GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Demographic Issues;
CHAPTER
12. RESOURCE ISSUES; THE ENVIRONMENT; Deforestation; Pollution;
SPOTLIGHT: Is the Earth Getting Warmer?; International Cooperation for Saving
the Environment; A Green and Pleasant Globe?; WATER; Water Scarcity and the
Potential for Conflict; International Responses to the Need for Water;
Water's Future; FOOD; Feeding the World; International Food Aid and Famine
Relief Efforts; ENERGY; The Need for Energy; Oil's Critical Role; Energy
Crises and Global Responses; Coal and Natural Gas; Renewable Energy; WHAT
WOULD YOU DO? Economic Growth Versus the; Environment; CONCLUSION; AT A
GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Resource Issues; CHAPTER
13. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATIONS; INTERNATIONAL
LAW; Sources of International Law; Customary Practices; SPOTLIGHT: The First
International Lawyer; Treaties; Violation and Compliance; Areas of
International Law; Human Rights Under International Law; Can Human Rights
Conventions Be Enforced; Warfare and Aggression; Effectiveness and
Compliance: The Verdict on International Law; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS;
International Governmental Organizations; Security IGOS: The United Nations;
The United Nations Is Born; The United Nations: Structure, Functions, and
Politics; General Assembly; Security Council; SPOTLIGHT: Conflict and
Cooperation in the Security Council; Secretariat and Secretary-General;
International Court of Justice; Economic and Social Council; UN Peacekeeping
Missions: Expectations and Experience; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? UN Peacekeeping;
United Nations' Effectiveness; Economic IGOs; The World Bank; The
International Monetary Fund; The GATT and the World Trade Organization (WTO);
The Bretton Woods Institutions into the Future; Nongovernmental
Organizations; NGOs, Power, and Global Governance; NGOs in Action;
CONCLUSION; AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Global
Governance; CHAPTER
14. WORLD POLITICS IN CONTEXT; WHAT HAVE WE COVERED SO
FAR?; WHAT HAVE WE NOT YET COVERED?; Ethics; Ethics of War; Ethics of
Sovereignty and Positive Intervention; Ethics of Peace and Reconciliation;
Ethics of Trade and Development; Ethics of Competing Interests; SPOTLIGHT:
Bad Guys Make Even Worse Allies; Relationship of World Politics to Other
Subdisciplines of Political Science; Foreign Policy; Comparative Politics;
American Politics; Political Theory; THE FUTURE; Realist Projection; Liberal
Projection; Constructivist Projection; CONCLUSION; WHAT WOULD YOU DO? The
Future of the UN; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Figure Sources; Index