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Written by renowned scholar and former policymaker Joseph Nye, Jr. and new co-author David A. Welch, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation is a brief and penetrating introduction to the study of world politics in an era of complex interdependence.This text deftly employs lessons from both theory and history to evaluate conflict and cooperation among global actors and to provide students with a resilient analytical framework. From twentieth and twenty-first century conflicts to global trade and finance, global governance, and the informa... MORE

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics?	p. 1
What is International Politics?	p. 2
Differing Views of Anarchic Politics	p. 4
Building Blocks	p. 9
The Peloponnesian War	p. 13
A Short Version of a Long Story	p. 13
Causes and Theories	p. 16
Inevitability and the Sha... MOREdow of the Future	p. 18
Ethical Questions and International Politics	p. 21
Limits on Ethics in International Relations	p. 22
Three Views of the Role of Morality	p. 24
Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars	p. 30
Explaining Conflict and Cooperation: Tools and Techniques of the Trade	p. 33
Key Concepts	p. 33
States, Nations, and Nation-States	p. 34
International Actors, Power, and Authority	p. 37
International System and International Society	p. 42
System Stability and Crisis Stability	p. 44
The "National Interest"	p. 45
Levels of Analysis	p. 46
The Individual Level	p. 48
The State Level	p. 51
The System Level	p. 53
Paradigms and Theories	p. 55
Realism	p. 56
Liberalism	p. 58
Constructivism	p. 63
Marxism	p. 64
Counterfactuals and 'Virtual History'	p. 65
Plausibility	p. 66
Proximity in Time	p. 66
Relation to Theory	p. 66
Facts	p. 67
From Westphalia to World War I	p. 71
Managing Great Power Conflict: Balance and Concert	p. 74
Balances as Distributions of Power	p. 75
Balance of Power as Policy	p. 76
Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems	p. 78
Alliances	p. 80
The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth-Century System	p. 81
Chronologies: Europe	p. 84
The Origins of World War I	p. 86
Three Levels of Analysis	p. 87
Was War Inevitable?	p. 92
What Kind of War?	p. 95
The Funnel of Choices	p. 98
Lessons of History Again	p. 99
Chronology: The Road To World War I	p. 100
The Failure of Collective Security and World War II	p. 103
The Rise and Fall of Collective Security	p. 103
The League of Nations	p. 104
The United States and the League of Nations	p. 106
The Early Days of the League	p. 107
The Manchurian Failure	p. 110
The Ethiopian Debacle	p. 111
The Origins of World War II	p. 112
Hitler's War?	p. 112
Hitler's Strategy	p. 114
The Role of the Individual	p. 118
Systemic and Domestic Causes	p. 119
Was War Inevitable?	p. 120
The Pacific War	p. 122
Appeasement and Two Types of War	p. 126
Chronology: Between The World Wars	p. 128
The Cold War	p. 132
Deterrence and Containment	p. 133
Three Approaches to the Cold War	p. 134
Roosevelt's Policies	p. 136
Stalin's Policies	p. 137
Phases of the Conflict	p. 138
Inevitability?	p. 144
Levels of Analysis	p. 145
U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War	p. 147
Containment	p. 148
The Vietnam War	p. 149
Motives, Means, and Consequences	p. 150
Chronology: American Involvement in Vietnam (1954-1975)	p. 151
The Rest of the Cold War	p. 155
The End of the Cold War	p. 156
The Role of Nuclear Weapons	p. 161
Physics and Politics	p. 161
Balance of Terror	p. 165
Problems of Nuclear Deterrence	p. 166
The Cuban Missile Crisis	p. 168
Moral Issues	p. 170
Chronology: The Cold War Years	p. 173
Post-Cold War Conflict and Cooperation	p. 181
Managing Conflict	p. 181
International Law and Organization	p. 184
Domestic Analogies	p. 185
Predictability and Legitimacy	p. 187
The United Nations: Collective Security and Peacekeeping	p. 188
Intrastate Conflict	p. 194
Intervention and Sovereignty	p. 196
Defining Intervention	p. 197
Judging Intervention	p. 199
Exceptions to the Rule of Nonintervention	p. 200
Problems of Self-Determination	p. 201
Genocide and the "Responsibility to Protect"	p. 203
Interstate Conflict	p. 205
The Middle East	p. 206
Arab-Israeli Conflict	p. 209
Conflicts in the Persian Gulf, 1991 and 2003	p. 217
Chronology: Conflict In The Middle East	p. 222
A Nuclear Iran?	p. 225
Chronology: Iran's Nuclear Program	p. 226
India and Pakistan	p. 228
Chronology: The Kashmir Conflict	p. 230
The Taiwan Strait	p. 231
Chronology: The Taiwan Strait	p. 232
North Korea	p. 233
Chronology: North Korea	p. 235
Globalization and Interdependence	p. 239
The Dimensions of Globalization	p. 240
What's New about Twenty-First-Century Globalization?	p. 242
Political Reactions to Globalization	p. 244
Power and Globalization	p. 245
The Concept of Interdependence	p. 245
Sources of Interdependence	p. 246
Benefits of Interdependence	p. 247
Costs of Interdependence	p. 249
Symmetry of Interdependence	p. 251
Leadership and Institutions in the World Economy	p. 253
Realism and Complex Interdependence	p. 257
The Politics of Oil	p. 259
Oil as a Power Resource	p. 263
The Information Revolution and Transnational Actors	p. 268
Power and the Information Revolution	p. 268
Lessons from the Past	p. 269
A New World Politics?	p. 272
Sovereignty and Control	p. 277
Transnational Actors	p. 280
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)	p. 283
The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence	p. 286
Transnational Terrorism and the "War on Terror"	p. 289
Conclusions	p. 292
What Can We Expect in the Future?	p. 296
Alternative Visions	p. 296
The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations?	p. 301
Technology and the Diffusion of Power	p. 303
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction	p. 305
Transnational Challenges to Security	p. 307
A New World Order?	p. 316
Future Configurations of Power	p. 317
The Prison of Old Concepts	p. 320
The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order	p. 321
Thinking About the Future	p. 324
Glossary	p. 327
Credits	p. 331
Index	p. 332
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Written by renowned scholar and former policymaker Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and new co-author David A. Welch, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation is a brief and penetrating introduction to the study of world politics in an era of complex interdependence. This text deftly employs lessons from both theory and history to evaluate conflict and cooperation among global actors and to provide students with a resilient analytical framework. From twentieth and twenty-first century conflicts to global trade and finance, global governance, and the information revolution, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation, formerly titled Understanding International Conflicts, expands substantially on previous editions of this classic work to provide a lucid and thought-provoking survey of international relations today.

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