Global politics in the human interest
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Global politics in the human interest
(Explorations in peace and justice)
L. Rienner Publishers, 1991
2nd ed., fully rev
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Gurtov uses a global-humanist framework to address four interrelated problems: underdevelopment, human rights violations, the arms race, and environmental destruction. This edition of his textbook has been updated to take account of the dramatic developments in world politics and the world economy since 1988. The book includes up-to-date material on: perestroika, pluralism in Eastern Europe, the changing nature of the arms race, events in South Africa, the Gulf crisis, the changes in China, mounting budget deficits in the U.S., tropical deforestation in Brazil and statistics through 1990. The book has a practical bent, conveying how global politics affects the quality and content of people's lives. It concludes with a definition of international security and specific ways that it might be achieved.
Table of Contents
- Crisis and interdependence in contemporary world politics
- realism and corporate globalism in theory and practice
- world politics in global-humanist perspective
- the Third World - human rights and underdevelopment
- defining the "Third World"
- a Third World country profile
- China
- South Africa
- Nicaragua
- the Philippines
- South Korea
- arms and insecurity in the First World
- the Soviet Union
- the United States
- the prospects for peace
- the quest for security and autonomy in the Second World
- the new meaning of power
- Japan
- Canada
- Poland
- in the human interest - an agenda for transforming world politics.
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