The might of nations : world politics in our time
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The might of nations : world politics in our time
McGraw-Hill, c1993
Jubilee 10th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This introductory text on international relations concentrates on the struggle for power and order in world affairs. "The Might of Nations" aims to provide breadth and depth of coverage, tracing world politics since 1945 to explain the current world political climate. This extensively revised jubilee tenth edition is a new book for a new world. The advance of democracy and the retreat of dictatorship in world politics is explored throughout the text, highlighted by new material on the end of the Cold War and the collapse of soviet communism (ch.3). Chapter 4 has been extensively revised, featuring new material on the liquidation of Western colonialism and the dismantling of Apartheid in South Africa. There is new coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf (ch.6) and the resurgence of the United Nations (chs.10 &12), and a strong chapter on the economic struggle for power features new material on the economic struggle between Japan and the U.S. (ch.7). The process of economic unification in Western Europe is also covered.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: The nature of international relations
- introduction
- the nation-state system and the nature of power. Part 2: The international struggle for power
- the East/West struggle
- the North/South struggle
- the struggle between competing nationalisms in the Middle East - the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Iran-Iraq War
- the military struggle for power - war in the nuclear age
- the economic struggle for power. Part 3: The international struggle for order
- diplomacy and political power
- international law and political order
- the United Nations system and political order. Part 4: Toward a theory of international relations
- perception and reality in world politics.
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