Global Future : A Brief Introduction to World Politics
ISBN: 9780495569275 | 0495569275
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/5/2009
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THE GLOBAL FUTURE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WORLD POLITICS gives you a cost-effective alternative to lengthy, detailed textbooks. Based on Kegley's best-selling WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION, THE GLOBAL FUTURE helps you understand contemporary events and emerging global trends. Every chapter contains thought-provoking case studies, box inserts with rival views on current controversies, and a marginal glossary, as well as vivid graphs, maps, and photographs. Centering on the latest international developments, THE GLOBAL FUTURE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WORLD POLITICS encourages you to form your own opinions about the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century.
| About the Authors | |
| Preface | |
| Trend and Transformation in World Politics | |
| Exploring the Twenty-First-Century World Politics | |
| Theories of World Politics | |
| The Actors in World Politics | |
| Foreign Policy Decision-Making | |
| Great-Power Rivalry and the Lure of Hegemony: Cycles of War and Peace in Modern World History | |
| Rich and Poor in World Poli... MORE | |
| Non-State Actors and the Challenge of Global Governance | |
| The Politics of Global Security | |
| Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century | |
| Military Power and National Security in a Turbulent World | |
| Realist Paths to Peace: Alliance, Arms Control, and the Balance of Power | |
| Liberal Paths to Peace: International Law and Organization | |
| The Politics of Global Warfare | |
| The Globalization of World Politics | |
| Markets and Money in a Global Political Economy | |
| Human Rights and the Quest for Global Justice | |
| Population Dynamics and Global Environmental Politics | |
| Alternative World Futures | |
| Prospects for a New World Orders | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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