Introduction to Global Politics - Brossura

Mansbach, Richard W.; Taylor, Kirsten L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415773830 ISBN 13: 9780415773836

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Riassunto

This textbook introduces students to the key changes in current global politics in order to help them make sense of major trends that are shaping our world. The emphasis on change in global politics helps students to recognize that genuinely new developments require citizens to change their beliefs and that new problems may appear even as old ones disappear. It is designed to encourage students to think ahead in new, open-minded ways, even as they come to understand the historical roots of the present.

Key features:

• explains global politics using an historical approach
• assesses several types of theory so that students become aware of what theory is and why it is necessary for understanding global politics
• presents key aspects of global politics including the development of the nation-state, power, international law, war, foreign policy, security, terrorism, international organization, international political economy, the global south, the environment and globalization
• extensive pedagogy to reinforce learning - student activities, visual materials, definitions of key terms and names, learning boxes, cultural materials, key documents, annotated bibliography and website addresses (support website with lecturers' materials, datasets and updates).

Introduction to Global Politics will be essential reading for students of political science, global politics and international relations.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Richard W. Mansbach is Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University, USA. A former editor of International Studies Quarterly, Marshall Scholar, and three-time Fulbright Scholar.

Kirsten L. Rafferty is Assistant Professor of Government and International Studies at Berry College (Mount Berry, GA), USA.

Contenuti:

1. Making Sense of a Complex World: Theory and Global Politics  1.1 Threats and Opportunities  1.2 History and Global Politics: Change and Continuity  1.3 Levels of Analysis  1.4 What Is Theory and Why Do We Need It?  1.5 The Great Debates: An Introduction to Different World Views  1.6 Many Theories, Many Meanings 1 .7 Conclusion  Part 1: The Past as Prologue  2. The Evolution of the Interstate System and Alternative Political Systems  2.1 The Emergence of the European Interstate  2.2 China: The Confucian Empire  2.3 Islam’s Founding and Expansion: A Nonstate Alternative  2.4 Conclusion  3. The World Wars  3.1 Events leading to the Great War  3.2 Explaining the Outbreak of the World War I  3.3 The Peace of Versailles and its Consequences  3.4 The League of Nations  3.5 Hitler comes to Power  3.6 Appeasement and the Onset of World War II  3.7 Explaining the Outbreak of World War II  3.8 Conclusion  4. Background to the Cold War  4.1 Origins of the Cold War in Postwar Europe  4.2 The Cold War Spreads and Deepens  4.3 The Vietnam War  4.4 The Cold War Winds Down  4.5 The End of the Cold War  4.6 Russia after the Cold War  5. Great Challenges in Contemporary Global Policy  5.1 The Challenge from China  5.2 Israel and Palestine  5.3 Afghanistan, 9/11, and the War on Terrorism 5.4 The Iraq Dimension  5.5 Conclusion  Part 2: Living Dangerously in a Dangerous World  6. Anarchy, Power and Realism  6.1 Realism and the Condition of Anarchy  6.2 The Neo-Liberal Critique: Co-operating under Anarchy  6.3 The Constructive Critique  6.4 The Quest for Power and Influence  6.5 Conclusion  7. The Changing Nature of War  7.1 War as an Extension of Politics  7.2 On the Road to Total War: The World Wars  7.3 Technology and Interstate Wars  7.4 The Era of Smart Weapons  7.5 Irregular Wars  7.6 Intrastate Wars  7.7 Global Terrorism  7.8 Conclusion Part 3: Actors and Institutions  8. Foreign Policy and War  8.1 What is Foreign Policy?  8.2 War and the Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy  8.3 Managing Interstate Conflict  8.4 Foreign Policy and the Proliferation of WMD  8.5 Conclusion   9. International Law and Organization and the Quest for Peace  9.1 The "Law of the Nations"  9.2 Types of International Organizations  9.3 Early Ideas and Efforts  9.4 The United Nations  9.5 Regional International Organizations  9.6 Nongovernmental Organizations  9.7 Conclusion  10. Human Rights: The Individual in Global Politics  10.1 The Holocaust  10.2 The Evolution of International Criminal Tribunals  10.3 Individual Rights under International Law  10.4 Women’s Rights as Human Rights  10.5 Conclusion  Part 4: Global Issues  11. International Political Economy  11.1 The Beginnings of a Global Economy  11.2 Theories of Political Economy  11.3 The Great Depression  11.4 The Bretton Woods Institutions  11.5 Hegemonic Stability  11.6 Transnational Corporations: Engines of Global Capitalism  11.7 States and Markets  11.8 The Asian Contagion  11.9 Conclusion  12. The Global South  12.1 Europe’s Empires and the Developing World  12.2 Decolonization  12.3 The Politics of Nation Building and Economic Development  12.4 An Economic Giant Awakens  12.5 Conclusion  13. Human Security  13.1 The Idea of Human Security  13.2 Poverty and Economic Development  13.3 Transnational Crime  13.4 The Arms Trade  13.5 Refugees and Migrants  13.6 Globalized Diseases  13.7 Conclusion  14. The Environment: A Global Collective Good  14.1 Collective Good and Collective Fates  14.2 Populations and Environment  14.3 Deteriorating Global Ecology  14.4 Conclusion  Part 5: Peoples and Cultures in Global Politics   15. Identity Politics: Nationalism and Ethnicity  15.1 Identities  15.2 Manipulating Identities  15.3 Nationalism  15.4 Religious Identities  15.5 Ethnic and Tribal Identities  15.6 The Brutal Break-up of Yugoslavia  15.7 The Clash of Civilizations?  15.8 Conclusion  Part 6: And Tomorrow?  16. A Globalizing World?  16.1 What is Globalization?  16.2 The Globalization Debate  16.3 The State in Decline  16.4 A Future Dimly Seen  16.5 Conclusion: An Uncertain Future?

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415773830
• ISBN 13: 9780415773836
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 872