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Cases In International Relations: Portraits Of The Future

by: Snow, Donald M.

Cases In International Relations: Portraits Of The Future

by: Snow, Donald M.

ISBN 13:
9780321337979
ISBN 10:
0321337972
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2008
Publisher: Longman
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Summary

This collection of 16 original case studies has students applying IR concepts to real-world situations and helps them to understand the most important current and enduring problems facing the international system.

Preface: Portraits of the Future

PART 1 New Forces in International Relations

(50)

CHAPTER 1 China Rising: Looming Threat or Global Partner?

(16)

Précis

(2)

The Setting: From Humiliation, Chaos, and Poverty to Modernization

(2)

Economic Growth, But Questions

(1)

Assessing China's Economic Rise

(1)

The "Fourth Modernization:" Military Enhancement

(1)

Elements of Modernization

(1)

Assessing China's Military Strength

(2)

Noncoercive Influence: China's New Diplomacy

(1)

Policy Alternatives: Containment or Engagement?

(1)

Containing the Looming Threat

(1)

Engaging the Global Partner

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

(1)

Reading/Research Material

(1)

Web Sites

(1)

CHAPTER 2 The Growing Significance of NGOs: Médecins sans Frontières, Peacekeeping, and Beyond

(16)

Précis

(3)

Médecins sans Frontières

(1)

Background and Evolution of MSF

(2)

Controversies Surrounding MSF

(1)

Peacekeeping Operations

(1)

Nature of the Problem

(1)

The Structure of State Building

(1)

Enter the NGOs

(2)

MSF in Afghanistan and Iraq

(1)

Conclusion

(2)

Study/Discussion Questions

(1)

Reading/Research Material

(1)

Web Sites

(1)

CHAPTER 3 The Democratic Peace: Is It True? How Do We Get There?

(16)

Précis

(2)

The Democratization Movement

(1)

Transparency and Soft Power

(2)

Democracy and Globalization

(1)

What Could Go Wrong?

(1)

Revenge of the Losers

(1)

The Coming Anarchy

(1)

The Clash of Cultures

(1)

Rocky Roads to Freedom

(1)

Economic Collapse

(1)

Promoting Democracy: Soft or Hard Power?

(1)

Conclusion

(2)

Study/Discussion Questions

(1)

Reading/Research Material

(1)

Web Sites

(1)

PART 2 Evolving Dynamics of International Relations

(56)

CHAPTER 4 War Crimes: The Past in the Present in the Future

(19)

Précis

(2)

Background of the Problem

(1)

The Impact of World War II

(2)

Post-World War II Efforts

(1)

Evolution of the Problem

(1)

Bosnia and Rwanda: The Problem Revived

(1)

The Bosnian "Ethnic Cleansing"

(3)

The Rwandan Rampage

(1)

Proposals for a Permanent War Crimes Tribunal

(1)

The Case for the ICC

(1)

Objections to the ICC

(2)

The ICC and Iraq

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

(1)

Reading/Research Material

(1)

Web Sites

(1)

CHAPTER 5 International Permission Slips: Sovereignty and the Right of Intervention

(17)

Précis

(2)

The Concept of Sovereignty

(1)

Early Origins and Evolution

(2)

Objections to Sovereignty

(2)

The Assault on Sovereignty Through the UN

(1)

The Assault on Sovereignty Outside the UN: The Iraq Precedent

(1)

International Intervention

(1)

New Internal Wars

(2)

Afghanistan and Iraq

(1)

The Intervention Response

(2)

Conclusion

(2)

Study/Discussion Questions

(1)

Reading/Research Material

(1)

Web Sites

(1)

CHAPTER 6 Camp David I and II and Beyond: How High a Fence?

(18)

Précis

(2)

Issues and Outcomes, 1978 and 2000

(1)

Camp David I

(3)

Camp David II

(2)

Influences on the Process

(1)

Geopolitical Setting

(2)

Regional Situation

(1)

Jerusalem

(2)

Beyond the Camp David Process: How High the Fence?

101

(4)

Conclusion

105

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

105

(1)

Reading/Research Material

106

(1)

Web Sites

106

(1)

PART 3 Economic Globalization

107

(54)

CHAPTER 7 The New Trinity of Globalism: Geopolitics for a New Age?

109

(18)

Précis

109

(2)

Nature of the Problem

111

(1)

Technological and Policy Roots

111

(1)

The Role of Technology

112

(1)

The Policy Element

113

(2)

The East Asian Crisis of 1997-98

115

(2)

The Clash of Models

117

(1)

Applying the Past to the Future

118

(1)

The American Model Applied

119

(2)

The IMF as Enforcer

121

(2)

The Role of Investors

123

(1)

Conclusion

123

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

124

(1)

Reading/Research Material

125

(1)

Web Sites

126

(1)

CHAPTER 8 Free Trade or Not Free Trade: From ITO to WTO and Beyond

127

(17)

Précis

127

(3)

Institutionalizing Trade

130

(1)

The Bretton Woods System and Free Trade

131

(1)

The Road from Bretton Woods to the WTO

132

(3)

Is Institutionalized Free Trade a Good Idea?

135

(1)

Free Trade or Not Free Trade?

135

(2)

The WTO: Problem or Solution?

137

(3)

Conclusion

140

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

141

(1)

Reading/Research Material

142

(1)

Web Sites

143

(1)

CHAPTER 9 Debating Globalization: The Case of Indonesia

144

(17)

Précis

144

(3)

Indonesia: A Thumbnail Sketch

147

(1)

The Economic Legacy

148

(2)

Indonesian Politics

150

(1)

The Geopolitics of Separatism and Terrorism

151

(2)

Where Is Indonesia Going?

153

(1)

Reevaluating Globalization

154

(2)

Political Reformation

156

(1)

National Integrity

157

(1)

Conclusion

157

(2)

Study/Discussion Questions

159

(1)

Reading/Research Material

159

(1)

Web Sites

160

(1)

PART 4 The Altered Face of Security

161

(60)

CHAPTER 10 Future War: From Symmetrical to Asymmetrical Conflict

163

(21)

Précis

163

(3)

Planning Twentieth-Century Style: Anticipating World War II

166

(2)

Conflict Environment

168

(1)

Physical Structure of Warfare

168

(2)

Interwar Planning

170

(2)

Determining Opponents

172

(1)

Planning Twenty-first-Century Style: Anticipating Future Wars

172

(1)

Conflict Environment

173

(2)

Physical Structure of Warfare

175

(2)

Determining Opponents

177

(1)

Symmetrical-Asymmetrical War

177

(1)

Quasi-Military Situations

178

(1)

Internal Wars

179

(2)

Conclusion

181

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

182

(1)

Reading/Research Material

182

(1)

Web Sites

183

(1)

CHAPTER 11 When National and International Politics Collide: The Case of Missile Defense

184

(19)

Précis

184

(4)

Missile Defense in the Past: History and Precedents

188

(1)

The Sentinel/Safeguard System

189

(2)

The Strategic Defense Initiative

191

(1)

The National Missile Defense (NMD)

192

(2)

International Reactions

194

(1)

Russia

195

(1)

China

196

(1)

India

197

(1)

The Allies

198

(1)

Conclusion

199

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

200

(1)

Reading/Research Material

201

(1)

Web Sites

201

(2)

CHAPTER 12 Who Cares about Kashmir? An Old Problem with New Teeth

203

(18)

Précis

203

(2)

Evolution of the Problem

205

(1)

Subdividing the Subcontinent

205

(2)

The Bases of Dispute

207

(2)

Status of the Problem

209

(2)

Prospects for Resolution

211

(1)

The Problem Reformulated

211

(2)

Options for Resolution

213

(1)

The Pro-Indian Options

214

(1)

Compromises

215

(1)

Pro-Pakistani Solutions

215

(1)

Perpetual Stalemate

216

(1)

Conclusion

217

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

218

(1)

Reading/Research Material

219

(1)

Web Sites

219

(2)

PART 5 Transnational Issues

221

(80)

CHAPTER 13 Warm and Getting Warmer: Global Warming and the Fate of the Kyoto Protocol

223

(16)

Précis

223

(3)

The Road to Kyoto-and Beyond?

226

(1)

The Kyoto Process

226

(1)

The Protocol

227

(2)

American and Other Objections

229

(2)

Warm and Getting Warmer: But How Much?

231

(1)

Getting Too Warm?

232

(2)

Not So Fast

234

(2)

Conclusion

236

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

237

(1)

Reading/Research Material

238

(1)

Web Sites

238

(1)

CHAPTER 14 "Let Them Drink Oil": Resource Conflict in the New Century?

239

(18)

Précis

239

(2)

Middle Eastern Water

241

(1)

Statement of the Problem

241

(3)

Possible Means of Resolution

244

(2)

The Prospects

246

(1)

Caspian Sea Oil

246

(1)

Regional Instabilities

247

(2)

The Pipeline Problem

249

(1)

The Prospects

250

(1)

Diamond Wars

251

(1)

The Background

252

(1)

It's the Diamonds, Stupid!

253

(1)

The Prospects

254

(1)

Conclusion

255

(1)

Study/Discussion Questions

255

(1)

Reading/Research Material

256

(1)

Web Sites

256

(1)

CHAPTER 15 Worse Than the Bubonic Plague: AIDS in Africa as a Transstate Issue

257

(16)

Précis

257

(2)

The Pandemic as a Transstate Issue

259

(2)

Dimensions of the Problem

261

(1)

Origins and Parameters of the Pandemic

261

(1)

Ignorance and Denial

262

(1)

Taboos on Discussion of the Pandemic

263

(1)

Civil Wars

263

(1)

Debt and Poverty

264

(1)

Expense of Treatment

264

(1)

Relative Powerlessness of Women

265

(1)

Effects of the Pandemic

265

(2)

Transstate Solutions

267

(2)

Conclusion

269

(2)

Study/Discussion Questions

271

(1)

Reading/Research Material

272

(1)

Web Sites

272

(1)

CHAPTER 16 Understanding and Organizing a Post-September 11, 2001, World: The Continuing Campaign Against Evolving Terrorism

273

(28)

Précis

273

(2)

What Is Terrorism?

275

(1)

Terrorist Acts

276

(3)

Terrorist Targets

279

(1)

Terrorist Objectives

280

(2)

Thinking about Terrorism: Perspectives and Causes

282

(1)

Three Perspectives

282

(2)

Three Causes

284

(3)

Evolving Terrorism since September 11

287

(2)

Dealing with Terrorism: The GWOT

289

(3)

Suppressing Terrorists: Antiterrorism and Counterterrorism

292

(1)

International versus National Efforts

293

(1)

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