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IR : The New World of International Relations

ISBN: 9780139738685 | 0139738681
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 9/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in International Relations, and World Politics. This introduction to international relations employs an exceptionally readable style that avoids jargon and abstract theory by blending basic concepts and vocabulary with a substantial amount of historical background and examples from current events. This readable style combined with new pedagogy allows students to better understand how International Relations can and does affect them and their own lives.
Prefaceix
Part I The Cold War Come and Gone1(114)
1 Strange New World: Systems and States in Transformation
3(20)
The European Bala... MORE
4(4)
The Unstable Interwar System
8(2)
The Bipolar Cold War System
10(2)
What Kind of New System?
12(6)
Are States Here to Stay?
18(2)
Is Sovereignty Slipping?
20(1)
Key Terms
21(1)
Key Websites
22(1)
Further Reference
22(1)
2 America's Changing National Interests
23(20)
Independence
23(2)
Manifest Destiny
25(4)
Imperialism
29(3)
World War I
32(1)
Isolationism
33(1)
World War II
34(2)
The Cold War
36(5)
Key Terms
41(1)
Key Websites
41(1)
Further Reference
42(1)
3 "Wrong, Terribly Wrong": The United States and Vietnam
43(18)
The Colonized Colonialists
44(1)
The First Indochina War
45(3)
The United States and the Geneva Accords
48(2)
Kennedy's Commitment
50(2)
LBJ: Victim or Villain?
52(3)
Extrication without Humiliation
55(2)
Morality and Feasibility
57(2)
Key Terms
59(1)
Key Websites
60(1)
Further Reference
60(1)
4 Can the United States Lead the World?
61(16)
From Interventionism to Caution
62(1)
Are Americans Basically Isolationists?
63(2)
Budgetary Limits
65(3)
A Petulant Congress
68(1)
Is the Structure Out of Whack?
69(4)
Do Bureaucracies Make Foreign Policy?
73(1)
To Lead or Not to Lead?
74(1)
Key Terms
75(1)
Key Websites
75(1)
Further Reference
75(2)
5 From Russia to the Soviet Union
77(17)
Invasion from the West
81(1)
War and Bolshevism
81(4)
Spreading the Revolution
85(1)
Stalin's Policy Mistakes
86(2)
The Great Patriotic War
88(2)
Yalta
90(1)
The Cold War
91(2)
Key Terms
93(1)
Key Websites
93(1)
Further Reference
93(1)
6 From the Soviet Union Back to Russia
94(21)
Khrushchev and the Loss of China
95(1)
Restive East Europe
96(3)
Khrushchev and the Cuban Missiles
99(2)
Brezhnev and Detente
101(1)
Afghanistan: A Soviet Vietnam
102(2)
Why the Soviet Collapse?
104(1)
Gorbachev and Collapse
105(3)
Is Foreign Policy Generated Internally or Externally?
108(2)
It Ain't Over `til It's Over
110(2)
Key Terms
112(1)
Key Websites
112(1)
Further Reference
113(2)
Part II The Global South115(100)
7 South Africa and the End of Colonialism
117(14)
The Colonial Mentality
118(3)
The Wind of Change
121(4)
Reform Instead of Revolution
125(2)
God Save Africa
127(2)
Key Terms
129(1)
Key Websites
129(1)
Further Reference
129(2)
8 Arabs and Israelis: The Rocky Road to Peace
131(24)
The Making of Jewish Nationalism
131(3)
The Making of Arab Nationalism
134(1)
World War I and the Mandate
135(3)
The 1948 War
138(2)
The 1956 War
140(2)
The Six Day War
142(3)
The 1973 War
145(2)
The Rise of Palestinian Nationalism
147(2)
The 1982 War
149(1)
Israel's Dilemma
150(1)
A Breakthrough
151(1)
The Rocky Road
151(2)
Lessons of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
153(1)
Key Terms
153(1)
Key Websites
154(1)
Further Reference
154(1)
9 Oil and Turmoil: The Persian Gulf and Central Asia
155(18)
Irascible Iran
156(5)
The First Gulf War
161(2)
The Second Gulf War
163(3)
Could Arabia Go the Way of Iran?
166(1)
Back to the Great Game
166(4)
Lessons of Two Gulf Wars
170(1)
Key Terms
171(1)
Key Websites
171(1)
Further Reference
172(1)
10 Central America and the Caribbean: From Sphere of Influence to Growing Independence
173(21)
Spain in Central America
174(2)
The United States Takes Over
176(3)
Cuba Leaves the U.S. Sphere
179(4)
A New Wave of Revolutions
183(3)
The Panama Problem
186(2)
The End of a Long War
188(1)
The Last Intervention
189(1)
Two Policy Choices to Deal with Castro
190(1)
The Trends toward Independence
191(1)
Key Terms
192(1)
Key Websites
192(1)
Further Reference
193(1)
11 Economic Development: The Rich and the Poor
194(21)
Whose Fault?
197(2)
Why Did the West Rise?
199(3)
The Population Explosion
202(3)
The Great Migration
205(2)
Socialist versus Market Paths
207(2)
Can Capitalism Uplift the Global South?
209(4)
Key Terms
213(1)
Key Websites
213(1)
Further Reference
213(2)
Part III The Eternal Threats215(58)
12 National Security: How States Protect Themselves
217(18)
Technology and Security
219(1)
Deterrence
220(6)
Detente Diplomacy
226(3)
Disarmament
229(2)
Defense
231(1)
A Combinations?
232(1)
Key Terms
233(1)
Key Websites
233(1)
Further Reference
234(1)
13 Nuclear Politics: Is the Bomb Here to Stay?
235(17)
Weapon of War
235(2)
Nuclear Deterrence
237(1)
Alliance Building
238(1)
International Prestige
239(1)
Deterrence II
240(1)
Nuclear Proliferation
241(2)
Arms Control
243(1)
Nuclear Proliferation II
244(3)
The Nasty Consequences of Nuclear Use
247(2)
Nuclear Weapons: Blessing or Curse?
249(1)
Key Terms
250(1)
Key Websites
251(1)
Further Reference
251(1)
14 Terrorism
252(21)
What Motivates Terrorists?
258(4)
The International Effects of Terrorism
262(6)
The Future of Terrorism
268(3)
Key Terms
271(1)
Key Websites
271(1)
Further Reference
271(2)
Part IV The Economic Blocs273(62)
15 The Shaky Rise of a United Europe
275(20)
The Basis of Alliance
277(2)
Europe Gropes for Unity
279(5)
Wider or Deeper?
284(2)
How to Defend Europe?
286(3)
The Uses of NATO
289(1)
If Not NATO, What?
290(1)
The Challenge of Trade Blocs
291(2)
Key Terms
293(1)
Key Websites
294(1)
Further Reference
294(1)
16 Pacific Tremors
295(22)
Japan Encounters the West
299(1)
The Road to Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima
300(5)
From Rubble to Riches
305(2)
The Dangers of Success
307(8)
Key Terms
315(1)
Key Websites
315(1)
Further Reference
316(1)
17 The United States in the Global Economy
317(18)
What Is a Dollar Worth?
318(4)
The Biggest Debtor
322(3)
The Addiction to Cheap Oil
325(1)
What Went Wrong with the U.S. Economy?
326(2)
The Coming of NAFTA
328(3)
Trade Wars?
331(1)
Key Terms
332(1)
Key Websites
332(1)
Further Reference
333(2)
Part V The Politics of a New World335(83)
18 Diplomacy
337(16)
The Rise and Decline of Diplomacy
338(3)
The Uses of an Anachronism
341(1)
Diplomats
342(3)
What Goes on in a Typical Embassy
345(3)
Diplomacy and War
348(3)
Key Terms
351(1)
Key Websites
352(1)
Further Reference
352(1)
19 International Law
353(23)
Consistency and Reciprocity
354(3)
Commands
357(3)
Sanctions
360(4)
The Development of International Law
364(2)
Recognition
366(2)
Rights and Duties of States
368(1)
Status of Individuals
369(1)
Territory
370(1)
International Agreements
371(1)
War
372(1)
The Future of International Law
373(1)
Key Terms
374(1)
Key Websites
374(1)
Further Reference
374(2)
20 The United Nations
376(22)
Why the Turnaround?
377(1)
Theory of World Government
378(1)
The Short, Sad League of Nations
379(5)
The Rise of the UN
384(3)
The UN: Early Idealism
387(1)
Disillusion with the UN
388(3)
The Uses of the UN
391(1)
The Functionalist Dream
392(2)
The UN: Humankind's Last, Best Hope?
394(3)
Key Terms
397(1)
Key Websites
397(1)
Further Reference
397(1)
21 Peacekeeping: Beyond War
398(20)
War as an Instrument of Policy
398(5)
The Future of War
403(3)
Peace Operations
406(1)
Preventive Diplomacy
407(1)
Peacemaking
408(2)
Peacemkeeping
410(3)
Peace Enforcement
413(1)
Peace Building
414(2)
Conclusion
416(1)
Key Terms
416(1)
Key Websites
417(1)
Further Reference
417(1)
Index418

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