World politics in a new era

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World politics in a new era

Steven L. Spiegel ... [et al.]

Oxford University Press, c2012

5th ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 616-646) and index

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Description

Thoroughly updated in its fifth edition, World Politics in a New Era is a comprehensive and thought-provoking text for introductory courses on world politics. Reflecting the changes that have occurred worldwide since the collapse of the Berlin Wall--including recent upheavals in the financial sphere--the book integrates coverage of the competing threads of globalization and fragmentation, examining how they tangle and weave through studies of global politics, economics, and culture. World Politics in a New Era, Fifth Edition, provides a uniquely in-depth treatment of the field by introducing key contemporary issues with theory; supporting these issues with historical context; and giving students the analytical tools to apply the theories to current issues. It introduces the major theories used to explain international relations--realism, liberalism, constructivism, and a few select alternatives--in Chapter 2, providing students with a primer on the topic. Discussions of these theories are then incorporated into the narrative throughout the text, creating a useful framework for analysis. Extensive historical coverage in four chapters (3-6) reviews key events in world politics from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the present, offering students the best context to fully comprehend the modern political stage. Chapters 7-14 cover key topics in contemporary world politics: security, trade and investment, development, human and resource issues, global governance, and ethics. FEATURES: * "At a Glance" text boxes apply the theories and levels of analysis--individual, domestic, and systemic--to each chapter's theme * "What Would You Do" boxes profile real-life events, asking students to play the role of a world leader/decision maker and propose a solution that takes into account the many complexities of world politics * "Spotlight" features in every chapter highlight interesting people, places, and situations; discuss important international events and colorful personalities in greater depth; or focus on specific facets of complex conflicts or theories NEW TO THIS EDITION: * Thoroughly updated to reflect the economic crisis, the changing security environment, data on issues in population, migration, and health, and more * Refines the discussion of constructivism, emphasizing that its significance equals that of realism and liberalism * Explains (in the four history chapters) how specific events were chosen for study and why history itself is important SUPPLEMENTS: * A Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/spiegel offers substantial review materials for students and password-protected resources for instructors * Instructor's Resource Manual with Test Bank * Computerized Test Bank * PowerPoint-based slides * Instructor's Resource CD including the Instructor's Resource Manual with Test Bank, the Computerized Test Bank, the PowerPoint-based slides, and graphics from the text

Table of Contents

  • EACH CHAPTER ENDS WITH DISCUSSION AND REVIEW QUESTIONS AND KEY TERMS
  • List of Maps
  • Special Features
  • Preface
  • PART 1. FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD POLITICS
  • CHAPTER 1. WORLD POLITICS: COMPLEXITY AND COMPETING PROCESSES
  • CONFLICT AND COOPERATION
  • GLOBALIZATION VERSUS FRAGMENTATION
  • ANARCHY VERSUS ORDER
  • CONCLUSION
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? North Korea's Nuclear Test
  • CHAPTER 2. THEORY AND WORLD POLITICS
  • CLIMATE CHANGE
  • LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
  • Systemic Level of Analysis
  • AT A GLANCE: The Prisoner's Dilemma Game
  • Domestic Level of Analysis
  • Individual Level of Analysis
  • SPOTLIGHT: The Operational Code
  • Levels of Analysis: Analytical Tools
  • THEORETICAL PARADIGMS/WORLDVIEWS
  • Realism
  • Liberalism
  • Constructivism
  • Blurring the Lines
  • Other Theoretical Paradigms/Worldviews
  • SUMMARY AND PREVIEW
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: International Responses to Climate Change
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Drilling for Oil
  • CHAPTER 3. WORLD POLITICS AND ECONOMICS: 1648-1945
  • THIRTY YEARS' WAR AND THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA
  • EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
  • Great Powers
  • Aftermath of War and Two Revolutions
  • AT A GLANCE: "World Wars" of the Eighteenth Century
  • NAPOLEONIC ERA
  • CONCERT OF EUROPE
  • UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
  • Italian Unification
  • German Unification
  • AT A GLANCE: The Wars of German Unification
  • THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
  • BRITISH ECONOMIC HEGEMONY AND ITS CHALLENGES
  • BISMARCKIAN SYSTEM
  • THE EVE OF WAR: PROTECTIONISM AND DISCORD
  • THE WORLD WARS
  • CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
  • AT A GLANCE: World War I and the Levels of Analysis
  • Rise of Germany
  • Alliance System
  • Economic Change and Competition
  • Nationalism
  • Imperialism
  • Cult of the Offensive
  • CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR I
  • Russian Revolution
  • Versailles Settlement
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Russia and the Path to War
  • SPOTLIGHT: An Idealist at Versailles
  • A Weak League and the Road to Another World War
  • SPOTLIGHT: The Munich Analogy
  • Economic Collapse and the Great Depression
  • CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II
  • AT A GLANCE: World War II and the Levels of Analysis
  • CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR II
  • Uneasy Alliance
  • The Holocaust
  • Atomic Bomb
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Examples from 1648 to 1945
  • CHAPTER 4. WORLD POLITICS AND ECONOMICS: THE COLD WAR
  • WHO OR WHAT CAUSED THE COLD WAR?
  • AT A GLANCE: The Origins of the Cold War and the Levels of Analysis
  • It Was Moscow's Fault
  • No, It Was Washington's Fault
  • Ideological Conflict
  • Leadership or the Lack Thereof
  • One World Divided by Two Superpowers Equals Conflict
  • It Was All a Misunderstanding
  • HEATING UP THE COLD WAR
  • Initial Confrontation: Iran
  • The Iron Curtain Descends and Conflict Intensifies?
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • Berlin Blockade
  • SPOTLIGHT: The Telegrams: Mr. X and Containment and the Novikov Telegram
  • NATO and the Warsaw Pact
  • TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY
  • The Bretton Woods System
  • THE COLD WAR IN ASIA
  • NSC-68
  • Korea: The Turning Point
  • THE COLD WAR AND THE THIRD WORLD
  • TROUBLE SPOTS: BERLIN AND CUBA
  • JFK, Cold Warrior
  • Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • VIETNAM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Soviet Missiles in Cuba
  • THE APPARENT DECLINE OF U.S. ECONOMIC HEGEMONY
  • DETENTE
  • The Opening of China, the Moscow Summit, and SALT
  • Tensions in Detente
  • FROM DIALOGUE TO DISCORD
  • The Invasion of Afghanistan
  • The Reagan Doctrine
  • WHY DID THE COLD WAR END?
  • AT A GLANCE: The End of the Cold War and the Levels of Analysis
  • The Gorbachev Factor
  • Failure of Communism
  • The End of the Evil Empire
  • The End of Bipolarity
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Examples from the Cold War
  • CHAPTER 5. IMPERIALISM AND ITS VICTIMS
  • ORIGINS OF IMPERIALISM
  • THE FIRST TRANSOCEANIC EMPIRES: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
  • Colonial Collusion: Dividing the World
  • Spanish Colonial Administration
  • Portuguese Colonialism
  • Spanish-American Independence
  • Independence from Portugal
  • DUTCH EMPIRE
  • ANGLO-FRENCH RIVALRY
  • France's Bid for Empire
  • BRITISH EMPIRE
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? The Costs of Imperialism
  • Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • SPOTLIGHT: British India
  • Twilight of Empire
  • SPOTLIGHT: The Mahatma
  • TWO GREAT CONTINENTAL EMPIRES: RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES
  • The Russians
  • Ninth through Eighteenth Centuries
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • The Americans
  • OTTOMAN EMPIRE
  • Fourteenth through Eighteenth Centuries
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: GERMAN AND JAPANESE EMPIRES
  • DECLINE OF IMPERIALISM
  • SOCIAL IMPACT OF IMPERIALISM
  • North America
  • The Caribbean
  • Latin America
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • The Pacific
  • China and Japan
  • ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM
  • Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific
  • Asia
  • Economic Consequences: An Assessment
  • CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL IMPACT OF COLONIALISM
  • Colonialism and Culture
  • Colonialism and Ideology
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Examples from Imperialism
  • CHAPTER 6. GLOBALIZATION AND FRAGMENTATION IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER: 1991 TO THE PRESENT
  • GLOBALIZATION AND FRAGMENTATION
  • A NEW WORLD ORDER?
  • War in the Gulf
  • The European Union
  • U.S. Economic Hegemony Endures
  • Enduring Regional and Internal Conflicts: The Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia
  • The Middle East
  • AT A GLANCE: Arab-Israeli Confrontations
  • South Asia
  • The Korean Peninsula
  • The People's Republic of China and Taiwan
  • Collective Security
  • SPOTLIGHT: Definitional Discord: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Genocide in Rwanda
  • THE TERROR OF SEPTEMBER 11
  • War in Iraq
  • Terrorism Redux
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Examples from 1991 to the Present
  • PART II. THE MAJOR ISSUES IN WORLD POLITICS
  • CHAPTER 7. SECURITY THEORY AND PRACTICE
  • THE MANY FACES OF SECURITY
  • External and Internal Threats
  • Subjective Versus Objective Aspects of Security
  • Working Definition of Security
  • SECURITY DILEMMA REVISITED
  • SPOTLIGHT: Clausewitz on War and Politics
  • MILITARY POWER
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Military Personnel
  • Defense Expenditures
  • Logistics and Power Projection
  • Qualitative Factors: Equipment, Training, and Morale
  • Soft Power
  • STRATEGIES FOR SECURITY: DETERRENCE, DEFENSE, AND COMPELLENCE
  • Deterrence
  • Defense
  • Compellence
  • REQUIREMENTS FOR DETERRENCE
  • Commitment
  • Capability
  • Credibility
  • CRITICISMS OF DETERRENCE
  • Defensive Weapons Systems
  • TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY
  • Breakthroughs, Lead Times, and Cost
  • SPOTLIGHT: Nukespeak
  • The Offense/Defense Balance
  • The Cutting Edge
  • ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
  • Definitions
  • Early Efforts at Disarmament
  • Test Bans
  • SALT, START, SORT, and New START
  • Intermediate-Range and Tactical Nuclear Weapons
  • Cooperative Threat Reduction
  • Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • Chemical Weapons, Biological Weapons, and Missiles
  • Conventional Arms Control
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Nuclear Proliferation
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Security Examples
  • CHAPTER 8. CONTEMPORARY SECURITY ISSUES
  • PROLIFERATION
  • SPOTLIGHT: Human Costs of Modern Conflict
  • The Debate over Proliferation
  • Command and Control
  • Current Proliferation Concerns
  • TERRORISM
  • Contemporary Terrorism Around the World
  • SPOTLIGHT: The Sheikh
  • Categories of Terrorist Groups
  • State-Sponsored Terrorism
  • Nationalist Separatists
  • Ideological Terrorism
  • Religious Terrorism
  • Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Combating International Terrorism
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Response to Terrorism
  • ORGANIZED CRIME
  • What Is Organized Crime?
  • Transnational Organized Crime Activities
  • The Globalization of Organized Crime
  • SPOTLIGHT: The Red Mafiya Penalty Box and the NHL
  • SPOTLIGHT: International Drug Trafficking
  • Combating Organized Crime
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Contemporary Security Examples
  • CHAPTER 9. WORLD POLITICS: TRADE AND INVESTMENT
  • TRADE
  • Ricardo's Model of Trade
  • Trade Barriers
  • Balance of Payments
  • Money Makes the World Go Around
  • Exchange Rates
  • CAPITAL MARKETS AND INVESTMENT
  • Capital Markets
  • SPOTLIGHT: Day Traders Find New Outlet
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • ECONOMIC POWER
  • Trade and Industry
  • Technology
  • SPOTLIGHT: Technology Globalizes the Workforce
  • ECONOMICS AS POLITICS
  • Realism
  • Liberalism
  • AT A GLANCE: East African Countries Form a Common Market
  • Hegemonic Stability Theory: Bridging the Liberal-Realist Divide
  • Constructivism
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Trade and Investment
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? The Sock Trade
  • CHAPTER 10. WORLD POLITICS: DEVELOPMENT
  • WHAT DEVELOPMENT MEANS
  • HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Development: A Holistic Approach 3
  • SPOTLIGHT: Gender Inequalities Harm Well-Being, Hinder Development
  • Civil Society and Development
  • Modernization Theory
  • Social Impact of Modernization
  • Critiques of Modernization Theory
  • POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Requirements of Political Development
  • Domestic: Political Culture
  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  • SPOTLIGHT: Tough Truths About Free Trade
  • Systemic: Dependency Theory
  • Primary Product Exports
  • Unequal Terms of Trade
  • Multinational Corporations
  • Critiques of Dependency Theory
  • Domestic: Economic Development Theories
  • Import-Substitution Industrialization
  • Export-Led Industrialization
  • AT A GLANCE: Argentina
  • Washington Consensus
  • Systemic-Domestic
  • Structural Adjustment Programs
  • DEVELOPMENT TODAY
  • Creating a New Paradigm
  • Searching for Practical Solutions: Technology
  • SPOTLIGHT: Invention and Innovation
  • Searching for Practical Solutions: Microfinance
  • Corruption Versus Courage
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Promoting Development
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Development
  • CHAPTER 11. HUMAN ISSUES: DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
  • POPULATION
  • Population Growth and Decline: Impact of Youth
  • Bulges and Aging Populations
  • Urbanization and Megacities
  • International Responses to Population Dynamics: Importance of Family Planning
  • The Abortion Debate
  • MIGRATION
  • Economic Migration
  • Refugees
  • Consequences of Migration
  • International Solutions to Problems of Migration
  • SPOTLIGHT: Human Trafficking
  • HEALTH AND DISEASE
  • The Global Health Picture
  • Responses to Global Health Problems
  • CONCLUSION
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Avian Flu
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Demographic Issues
  • CHAPTER 12. RESOURCE ISSUES
  • THE ENVIRONMENT
  • Deforestation
  • Pollution
  • SPOTLIGHT: Is the Earth Getting Warmer?
  • International Cooperation for Saving the Environment
  • A Green and Pleasant Globe?
  • WATER
  • Water Scarcity and the Potential for Conflict
  • International Responses to the Need for Water
  • Water's Future
  • FOOD
  • Feeding the World
  • International Food Aid and Famine Relief Efforts
  • ENERGY
  • The Need for Energy
  • Oil's Critical Role
  • Energy Crises and Global Responses
  • Coal and Natural Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Economic Growth Versus the
  • Environment
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Resource Issues
  • CHAPTER 13. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATIONS
  • INTERNATIONAL LAW
  • Sources of International Law
  • Customary Practices
  • SPOTLIGHT: The First International Lawyer
  • Treaties
  • Violation and Compliance
  • Areas of International Law
  • Human Rights Under International Law
  • Can Human Rights Conventions Be Enforced
  • Warfare and Aggression
  • Effectiveness and Compliance: The Verdict on International Law
  • INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
  • International Governmental Organizations
  • Security IGOS: The United Nations
  • The United Nations Is Born
  • The United Nations: Structure, Functions, and Politics
  • General Assembly
  • Security Council
  • SPOTLIGHT: Conflict and Cooperation in the Security Council
  • Secretariat and Secretary-General
  • International Court of Justice
  • Economic and Social Council
  • UN Peacekeeping Missions: Expectations and Experience
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? UN Peacekeeping
  • United Nations' Effectiveness
  • Economic IGOs
  • The World Bank
  • The International Monetary Fund
  • The GATT and the World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • The Bretton Woods Institutions into the Future
  • Nongovernmental Organizations
  • NGOs, Power, and Global Governance
  • NGOs in Action
  • CONCLUSION
  • AT A GLANCE: Levels of Analysis and Paradigms in Review: Global Governance
  • CHAPTER 14. WORLD POLITICS IN CONTEXT
  • WHAT HAVE WE COVERED SO FAR?
  • WHAT HAVE WE NOT YET COVERED?
  • Ethics
  • Ethics of War
  • Ethics of Sovereignty and Positive Intervention
  • Ethics of Peace and Reconciliation
  • Ethics of Trade and Development
  • Ethics of Competing Interests
  • SPOTLIGHT: Bad Guys Make Even Worse Allies
  • Relationship of World Politics to Other Subdisciplines of Political Science
  • Foreign Policy
  • Comparative Politics
  • American Politics
  • Political Theory
  • THE FUTURE
  • Realist Projection
  • Liberal Projection
  • Constructivist Projection
  • CONCLUSION
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO? The Future of the UN
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Figure Sources
  • Index

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  • NCID
    BB13204332
  • ISBN
    • 9780199766277
  • LCCN
    2010045451
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxx, 673 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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