Global politics in the human interest
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Global politics in the human interest
L. Rienner Publishers, 1994
3rd ed., fully rev
- : pbk
Available at 14 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. 271-290) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This third edition has been revised to reflect the realities of the post-Cold War period. In addition to providing facts and figures current in mid-1993, it includes new material on: the reshaping of the world order since 1989; international peacekeeping efforts in the Gulf, Yugoslavia, and Somalia; the significance of the Soviet collapse for ethnic nationalism, European security and US-Russian relations; nuclear proliferation; the Earth Summit; sustainable development; Japan's emerging international role; international law and human rights; and refugees and migration. The use of a global-humanist framework to address four interrelated problems - underdevelopment, human rights violations, the arms race, and environmental destruction - remains a key feature of the book, which retains its practical bent, conveying how global politics affects the quality and content of people's lives. Gurtov concludes with a thought-provoking discussion 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 - and the Fourth - Human Rights and Underdevelopment (Defining the "Third World" - a Third World Country Profile, Case Studies of Crisis and Renewal - China, South Africa, South Korea, Brazil)
- The United States and Russia - Arms and Insecurity (The Nuclear Danger in the Cold War Era, the Arms Race After the Cold War, the Human Cost of the Nuclear Game, Russia - the Demise of a Super-Power, the United States - the Price of Being Number One)
- Europe and Japan - the Quest for Autonomy and Security
- In the Human Interest - an Agenda for Transforming World Politics.
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