IR : the new world of international relations

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Supplements
Part I: Systems and Theories
	Chapter 1 Power and Systems
		Power in Our Day
		The European Balance-of-Power System
		The Unstable Interwar System
		The Bipolar Cold War System
		What Kind of New System?
		Are States Here to Stay?
		Is Sovereignty Slipping?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 2 IR Theories
		The Importance of Theories
		The Oldest Theory: Realism
		The Liberal Peace Seekers
		The Newest: Constructivism
		Marxist Theories of IR
		IR Theories: An Evaluation
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 3 Why War?
		Micro Theories of War
		State-Level Theories of War
		Macro Theories of War
		Misperception
		The Power Dilemma
		The Danger of Analogies
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
Part II: National Interests and Geopolitics
	Chapter 4 America’s Changing National Interests
		Independence
		Manifest Destiny
		Imperialism
		World War I and Isolationism
		World War II
		The Cold War
		Vietnam
		The Next Challenges
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 5 Russia and Geopolitics
		War and Bolshevism
		Stalin’s Policy Mistakes
		Yalta and the Cold War
		The Decline of the Soviet Union
		Khrushchev and the Cuban Missiles
		Why the Soviet Collapse?
		Foreign Policy: Generated Internally or Externally?
		Restoring Russian Power
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 6 Can the United States Lead the World?
		Alternation in U.S. Foreign Policy
		Are Americans Basically Isolationists?
		The Continuity Principle
		A Contrary Congress
		Is the Structure Defective?
		Do Bureaucracies Make Foreign Policy?
		The Unilateralist Temptation
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
Part III: The Global South
	Chapter 7 From Colonialism to Decolonization
		Legacies of Colonialism
		The Strange Story of South Africa
		India Splits in Two
		Nigeria: The Oil Curse
		The Assertive Emerging Countries
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 8 Eternal Warfare in the Holy Land
		The Making of Two Nationalisms
		World War I and the Mandate
		The Many Mideast Wars
		The Rise of Palestinian Nationalism
		Is There Hope?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 9 Oil and Turmoil: The Persian Gulf
		Irascible Iran
		Four Gulf Wars
		The Afghan War
		An Arab Explosion?
		War with Iran?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 10 Trouble and Hope in Latin America
		Spain Colonizes the New World
		Economic Dependency
		The Pattern of U.S. Intervention
		Cuba Leaves the U.S. Sphere
		Drugs and Democracy
		What Can We Do?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 11 Development in Rich and Poor Countries
		The Colonial Theory of Poverty
		The Cultural Theory of Poverty
		Why Did the West Rise?
		The Population Explosion
		The Great Migration
		Socialist Versus Market Paths
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
Part IV: The Permanence of Insecurity
	Chapter 12 National Security and Insecurity
		Strategies of National Security
		Technology and Security
		The Proliferation Problem
		An Extended View of National Security
		A Combination Approach
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 13 Internal Conflict
		The Varieties of Internal Conflicts
		Relative Deprivation
		Resource Mobilization and Opportunity
		Wars of Liberation or Crime?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 14 Asymmetrical Warfare
		Asymmetrical Conflict
		Background of an Asymmetrical Conflict
		Modernization and Asymmetrical Conflict
		What Is Terrorism?
		Which Way for U.S. Policy?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
Part V: The Global Political Economy
	Chapter 15 “If the Euro Fails, Europe Fails”
		Trouble in Euroland
		The Rise and Irrelevance of NATO
		Europe Gropes for Unity
		Europe on Its Own?
		The Challenge of Trade Blocs
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 16 Asia Awakes
		China’s Rise
		A History of Exaggerations
		Japan Encounters the West
		From Rubble to Riches
		An Asian Trade Bloc?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 17 The United States and Globalization
		The Great Depression and Great Recession
		A Strong Dollar?
		What to Use for World Trade?
		Globalization and Its Enemies
		The Coming of NAFTA
		Trade Wars?
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
Part VI: The Politics of a New World
	Chapter 18 Diplomacy Is Still Alive
		A Revival of Diplomacy
		The Rise and Decline of Diplomacy
		The Uses of an Anachronism
		Diplomats
		Inside an Embassy
		Diplomacy and War
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 19 The Uses of International Law
		Consistency and Reciprocity
		Commands and Sanctions
		Self-Help and War
		Recognition and Territory
		IL and Human Rights
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 20 The Reach of the United Nations
		The Short, Sad League of Nations
		The Rise of the UN
		Disillusion with the UN
		The Uses of the UN
		Functionalism
		Giving Peace a Chance
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
	Chapter 21 Finite F.E.W. (Food/Energy/Water)
		Finite F.E.W.
		Has Oil Peaked?
		The Energy Turnaround
		Water Crises
		F.E.W. and Human Security
		Review Questions
		Key Terms
		Further Reference
Credits
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