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Essential readings in world politics

Introduces students to literature on international relations - from classics in the field to contemporary debates among scholars. This book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as Iran's nuclear ambitions, global health threats like avian flu, and the international reach of political Isla...

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Other Authors: Mingst, Karen A. 1947-, Snyder, Jack L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Norton 2008
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Norton series in world politics
Subjects:
International relations
World politics
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Table of Contents:
  • Approaches
  • "One world, rival theories" / Jack Snyder
  • "Melian dialogue" / Thucydides
  • "To perpetual peace : a philosophical sketch" / Immanuel Kant
  • from Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism : a popular outline / V.I. Lenin
  • History
  • "The Fourteen Points" / Woodrow Wilson
  • "The sources of Soviet conduct" / George F. Kennan ("X")
  • "The end of history?" / Francis Fukuyama
  • "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America" / George W. Bush
  • Contending perspectives
  • "A realist theory of international politics" and "Political power" / Hans Morgenthau
  • "Anarchy and the struggle for power" / John Mearsheimer
  • "Liberalism and world politics" / Michael W. Doyle
  • "Anarchy is what states make of it : the social construction of power politics" / Alexander Wendt
  • "Man, the state, and war : gendered perspectives on national security" / J. Ann Tickner
  • The international system
  • "Does order exist in world politics?" / Hedley Bull
  • "The balance of power," "Different methods of the balance of power," and "Evaluation of the balanced power" / Hans Morgenthau
  • "The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system : concepts for comparative analysis" / Immanuel Wallerstein
  • "Systemic leadership, evolutionary processes, and international relations theory : the unipolarity question" / William R. Thompson
  • "Imperialism, liberalism and the quest for perpetual peace" / Anthony Pagden
  • The state
  • "Sharing sovereignty : new institutions for collapsed and failing states" / Stephen D. Krasner
  • "The real new world order" / Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • "The clash of civilizations?" / Samuel P. Huntington
  • "Political Islam : asking the wrong questions?" / Yahya Sadowski. The individual
  • "Hypotheses on misperception" / Robert Jervis
  • from Retreat from Doomsday : the obsolescence of major war / John Mueller
  • IGOs, NGOs, and international law
  • "The political origins of the UN Security Council's ability to legitimize the use of force" / Erik Voeten
  • "A too perfect union? Why Europe said 'No'" / Andrew Moravcsik
  • "Transnational advocacy networks in international politics" and "Human rights advocacy networks in Latin America" / Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn Sikkink
  • "Bystanders to genocide : why the United States let the Rwandan tragedy happen" / Samantha Power
  • "The pitfalls of universal jurisdiction" / Henry A. Kissinger
  • "The case for universal jurisdiction" / Kenneth Roth
  • "The false promise of international institutions" / John J. Mearsheimer
  • War and strife
  • "War as an instrument of policy" / Carl Von Clausewitz
  • "The diplomacy of violence" / Thomas C. Schelling
  • "Cooperation under the security dilemma" / Robert Jervis
  • "How to keep the bomb from Iran" / Scott D. Sagan
  • from Final solutions : mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century / Benjamin A. Valentino
  • "The security dilemma and ethnic conflict" / Barry R. Posen
  • "The strategic logic of suicide terrorism" / Robert A. Pape
  • "Why terrorism does not work" / Max Abrahms
  • "Oil, drugs, and diamonds : the varying roles of natural resources in civil war" / Michael L. Ross
  • "A feminist ethical perspective on weapons of mass destruction" / Carol Cohn, Sara Ruddick
  • International political economy
  • "The nature of political economy" / Robert Gilpin
  • "Globalization, development, and international institutions : normative and positive perspectives" / Helen V. Milner
  • from Why globalization works / Martin Wolf
  • "The five wars of globalization" / Moisés Naím
  • "The first law of petropolitics" / Thomas L. Friedman
  • "Female labor, regional crises, and feminist responses" / Valentine M. Moghadam
  • Globalization and globalizing issues
  • "The healers : triumph and tragedy" / William Easterly
  • "The next pandemic?" / Laurie Garrett
  • "Universal truths : human rights and the Westernizing illusion" / Amartya Sen
  • "The attack on human rights" / Michael Ignatieff.

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