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Why are there wars? Why do countries struggle to cooperate to prevent genocides or global environmental problems? Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Organized around the puzzles that draw scholars and students alike to the study of world politics, this book gives students the tools they need to think analytically about compelling questions like these. In the Second Edition, two new chapters-one on civil war and terrorism and one on international law-bring the book's successful approach to additional topics. Added features stress... MORE

Preface	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xix
What Is World Politics and Why Do We Study It?	p. xxi
Twelve Puzzles in Search of Explanations	p. xxiii
The Framework: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions	p. xxv
Levels of Analysis	p. xxvii
Integrating Insights from Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism	p. xxviii
The Plan of the Book	p. xxxiii
... MOREFoundations
What Shaped Our World? A Historical Introduction	p. 2
The Emergence of International Relations: The Mercantilist Era	p. 5
How Do We Know? Mercantilism and the Thirteen Colonies	p. 7
The Pax Britannica	p. 8
What Shaped Our World? Colonists and the Colonized	p. 9
The Hundred Years' Peace	p. 10
Free Trade	p. 11
The Gold Standard	p. 13
Colonial Imperialism	p. 13
The Thirty Years' Crisis	p. 14
Tension in Europe	p. 15
World War I and Its Effects	p. 15
Interwar Instability	p. 20
World War II	p. 21
The Cold War	p. 22
The Superpowers Emerge	p. 23
The Blocs Consolidate	p. 23
Decolonization	p. 27
The Rise of the Third World	p. 28
The Cold War Thaws	p. 29
After the Cold War	p. 29
The Cold War fends	p. 29
Worldwide Economic Developments	p. 30
New Diplomatic Challenges	p. 32
What Will Shape Our World in the Future?	p. 33
American Predominance and Challenges to It	p. 34
Globalization	p. 35
Looking Ahead	p. 36
Understanding Interests, Interactions, and Institutions	p. 38
Interests: What Do Actors Want from Politics?	p. 42
Actors and Interests	p. 44
What Shaped Our World? The Rise of the State	p. 45
Interactions: Why Can't Actors Always Get What They Want?	p. 47
Cooperation and Bargaining	p. 49
When Can Actors Cooperate?	p. 52
Who Wins and Who Loses in Bargaining?	p. 58
Institutions: Do Rules Matter in World Politics?	p. 62
How Do Institutions Affect Cooperation?	p. 62
How Do We Know? The International Diffusion of Election Monitoring	p. 65
Whom Do Institutions Benefit?	p. 68
Why Follow the Rules?	p. 69
Conclusion: Thinking Analytically about World Politics	p. 71
Special Topic: A Primer on Game Theory	p. 74
War and Peace
Why Are There Wars?	p. 80
What Is the Purpose of War?	p. 84
What Do States Fight Over?	p. 86
Bargaining and War	p. 88
Compellence and Deterrence: Varieties of Coercive Bargaining	p. 92
Do Wars Happen by Mistake? War from Incomplete Information	p. 93
Incentives to Misrepresent and the Problem of Credibility	p. 96
Communicating Resolve: The Language of Coercion	p. 99
Can an Adversary Be Trusted to Honor a Deal? War from Commitment Problems	p. 105
Bargaining over Goods That Are a Source of Future Bargaining Power	p. 106
How Do We Know?. Bargaining and Conflict over Territory	p. 107
Controversy: Should We Negotiate with Rogue Regimes?	p. 108
Prevention: War in Response to Changing Power	p. 110
Preemption: War in Response to First-Strike Advantages	p. 112
What Shaped Our World'? Prevention and Preemption in World War I	p. 114
Is Compromise Always Possible? War from Indivisibility	p. 115
How Can We Make War Less Likely?	p. 118
Raising the Costs of War	p. 118
Increasing Transparency	p. 118
Providing Outside Enforcement of Commitments	p. 119
Dividing Apparently Indivisible Goods	p. 120
Conclusion: Why War?	p. 121
Domestic Politics and War	p. 124
Whose Interests Count in Matters of War and Peace?	p. 128
National versus Particularistic Interests	p. 128
Interactions, Institutions, and Influence	p. 130
Do Politicians Spark Wars Abroad in Order to Hold On to Power at Home?	p. 132
What Do Leaders Want?	p. 133
Controversy: Should We Assassinate Leaders Rather Than Fight Their Armies?	p. 134
The Rally Effect and the Diversionary Incentive	p. 136
Do Leaders "Wag the Dog"?	p. 138
The Political Costs of War	p. 140
How Do We Know? War and the Fate of Political Leaders	p. 142
Do Countries Fight Wars to Satisfy the Military or Special Interest Groups?	p. 143
Bureaucratic Politics and the Military	p. 143
What Shaped Our World? The Kargil War and Military Influence in War	p. 146
Interest Groups: Economic and Ethnic Lobbies	p. 147
How Can Small Groups Have a Big Influence on Policy?	p. 149
How Do Domestic Interests Affect International Bargaining?	p. 152
Why Don't Democracies Fight One Another?	p. 154
What Is Democracy?	p. 155
Representation, Accountability, and Interests in War and Peace	p. 156
Democracy and the Bargaining Interaction	p. 161
Domestic Institutions or Strategic Interests?	p. 163
Conclusion: What If All the World Were Democratic?	p. 164
International Institutions and War	p. 168
Alliances: Why Promise to Fight Someone Else's War?	p. 172
Alliances and Alignments	p. 173
Alliances and the Likelihood of War	p. 176
How Alliances Establish Credibility	p. 179
Why Aren't Alliance Commitments Ironclad?	p. 180
The Success and Failure of Alliances in Europe, 1879-1990	p. 181
What Shaped Our World? NATO after the Cold War	p. 186
Collective Security: Why Can't the United Nations Keep the Peace?	p. 188
How Does Collective Security Work?	p. 189
The Dilemmas of Collective Security	p. 192
Institutional Responses to the Challenges of Collective Security	p. 193
The Experience of Collective Security: The United Nations	p. 195
Controversy: Should the International Community Intervene Militarily in Civil Conflicts?	p. 206
How Do We Know? Does Peacekeeping Keep the Peace?	p. 209
Conclusion: Are Poor Police Better Than None?	p. 211
Violence by Nonstate Actors: Civil War and Terrorism	p. 214
Why Does War Occur within States?	p. 219
Why Rebel?	p. 220
Controversy: Should Every Group Have a State of Its Own?	p. 222
When Does Dissatisfaction Lead to Armed Opposition?	p. 224
How Do We Know? Why Civil Wars Cluster Together	p. 230
Civil War As a Bargaining Failure	p. 233
The Strategies of Civil War	p. 237
What Can Be Done about Civil War?	p. 240
Terrorism: Why Kill Civilians?	p. 242
Are Terrorists Rational?	p. 243
Why Terrorism?	p. 245
What Shaped Our World? The Rise of Al Qaeda	p. 247
Terrorism As a Bargaining Failure	p. 248
How Can Terrorists Hope to Win? Strategies of Violence	p. 252
Can Terrorism Be Prevented?	p. 256
Conclusion: A Challenge to States?	p. 261
International Political Economy
International Trade	p. 264
What's So Good about Trade?	p. 268
Why Do Countries Trade What They Do?	p. 270
Trade Restrictions Are the Rule, Not the Exception	p. 273
Why Do Governments Restrict Trade? The Domestic Political Economy of Protection	p. 276
Winners and Losers in International Trade	p. 278
Economic Interests and Trade Policy	p. 278
Domestic Institutions and Trade Policy	p. 281
How Do We Know? The Political Economy of American Sugar Protection	p. 283
Costs, Benefits, and Compensation in National Trade Policies	p. 285
How Do Countries Get What They Want? The International Political Economy of Trade	p. 287
Strategic Interaction in International Trade Relations	p. 288
What Shaped Our World? The Creation of a Single European Market	p. 289
International Institutions in International Trade	p. 293
Explaining Trends and Patterns in International Trade	p. 298
Why, within a Country, Are Some Industries Protected and Some Not?	p. 298
Controversy: Does the WTO Hurt the Global Poor?	p. 300
Why Have National Trade Policies Varied over Time?	p. 302
Why Do Some Countries Have Higher Trade Barriers Than Others?	p. 302
Why Has the World Trading Order Been More or Less Open at Different Times?	p. 303
Conclusion: Trade and Politics	p. 303
Special Topic: Comparative Advantage and the Political Economy of Trade	p. 306
International Financial Relations	p. 312
How and Why Do People Invest Overseas?	p. 316
Why Invest Abroad? Why Borrow Abroad?	p. 317
What's the Problem with Foreign Investment?	p. 319
Concessional Finance	p. 320
Why Is International Finance Controversial?	p. 322
Who Wants to Borrow? Who Wants to Lend?	p. 322
Debtor-Creditor Interactions	p. 325
Institutions of International Finance	p. 327
Controversy: Is the IMF Unfair?	p. 330
Recent Borrowing and Debt Crises	p. 332
What Shaped Our World? The Latin American Debt Crisis	p. 333
A New Crisis Hits the United States-and the World	p. 334
Foreign Direct Investment: What Role Do Multinational Corporations Play?	p. 337
Why Do Corporations Go Multinational?	p. 337
Why Do Countries Let Foreign Multinationals In?	p. 339
How Do We Know? Who's Afraid of MNCs, and Who Likes Them?	p. 340
Host-Country Interactions with MNCs	p. 341
Why Aren't There International Institutions Related to FDI?	p. 343
International Migration: What Happens When People-Rather Than Capital-Move across Borders?	p. 344
Conclusion: The Politics of International Investment	p. 347
International Monetary Relations	p. 350
What Are Exchange Rates, and Why Do They Matter?	p. 354
How Are Currency Values Determined?	p. 355
Allowing the Exchange Rate to Change	p. 356
Who Cares about Exchange Rates, and Why?	p. 357
Governments	p. 357
Consumers and Businesses	p. 361
Can There Be World Money without World Government?	p. 363
When and Why Do Governments Agree on the Monetary Order?	p. 364
International Monetary Cooperation and Conflict	p. 365
International Monetary Regimes	p. 366
A Short History of International Monetary Systems	p. 367
What Shaped Our World? The Wizard of Oz and the Gold Standard	p. 369
Regional Monetary Arrangements: The Euro	p. 371
How Do We Know? Who Wanted the Euro?	p. 372
What Happens When Currencies Collapse?	p. 375
Effects on Government	p. 376
International Repercussions	p. 377
Containing Currency Crises	p. 381
Conclusion: Currencies, Conflict, and Cooperation	p. 381
Controversy: Should Currency Traders Be Permitted to "Attack" Weak Currencies?	p. 382
Development: Causes of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations	p. 386
If Everyone Wants Development, Why Is It So Hard to Achieve?	p. 390
Geographic Location	p. 390
What Shaped Our World? Paths to Development	p. 391
Domestic Factors	p. 392
Domestic Institutions	p. 397
How Do We Know? Explaining Developmental Differences: North and South America	p. 398
Are Rich Countries Responsible for the Problems of the Developing World?	p. 400
Did Colonialism Hamper Development?	p. 401
Is the International Economy Biased against LDCs?	p. 403
Are International Institutions Biased against LDCs?	p. 404
Development Policies and Development Politics	p. 406
Import Substituting Industrialization	p. 407
Export-Oriented Industrialization	p. 409
The Turn toward Globalization	p. 410
Attempts to Remedy the Bias of International Institutions	p. 411
Is Foreign Aid an Answer?	p. 413
Controversy: What Responsibilities Do Rich Countries Have to the Global Poor?	p. 414
Globalization and Its Discontents	p. 416
Conclusion: Toward Global Development	p. 417
Addressing International Factors	p. 417
Addressing Domestic Factors	p. 418
Transnational Politics
International Law and Norms	p. 420
What Is International Law?	p. 425
How Does International Law Get Made?	p. 426
What Shaped Our World? Crimes against Humanity	p. 427
Is All International Law the Same?	p. 428
How Do We Know? The European Court of Justice and the Integration of Europe	p. 430
Does International Law Matter?	p. 431
What Are International Norms?	p. 434
How Are International Norms Created?	p. 437
Controversy: Toys Made for Children, by Children	p. 440
Do Norms Matter?	p. 443
Beyond Norms: TANs and International Cooperation	p. 446
Conclusion: Is the State Obsolete?	p. 448
Human Rights	p. 452
What Are International Human Rights?	p. 456
What Shaped Our World? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 457
Why Are Human Rights Controversial?	p. 459
Are Some Rights More Important Than Others?	p. 462
Why Do Individuals and States Care about the Human Rights of Others?	p. 463
Controversy: Should Economic Sanctions Be Imposed on Governments That Violate Human Rights?	p. 464
Why Do States Violate Human Rights?	p. 466
Why Do States Sign Human Rights Agreements?	p. 468
Why Don't States Observe International Human Rights Law?	p. 473
Does International Human Rights Law Make a Difference?	p. 476
How Do We Know? Human Rights Abuses around the Globe	p. 477
What Can Lead to Better Protection of International Human Rights?	p. 480
When Do States Take Action on Human Rights?	p. 482
Will Protection of Human Rights Improve in the Future?	p. 483
Conclusion: Why Protect Human Rights?	p. 489
The Global Environment	p. 492
Why Are Good Intentions Not Good Enough?	p. 496
Collective Action and the Environment	p. 497
Solving Collective Action Problems	p. 500
What Shaped Our World? The Campaign to Save the Whales	p. 501
Why Do Polluters Usually Win?	p. 505
Domestic Winners and Losers	p. 505
International Winners and Losers	p. 507
Controversy: Who Should Bear the Costs of Addressing Global Climate Change?	p. 508
How Do We Know? Patterns of Environmental Performance	p. 514
Bargaining over the Future Environment	p. 515
How Can Institutions Promote International Environmental Cooperation?	p. 517
Setting Standards and Verifying Compliance	p. 518
Facilitating Decision Making	p. 520
Resolving Disputes	p. 521
Conclusion: Can Global Environmental Cooperation Succeed?	p. 522
Special Topic: The Science of Ozone Depletion and Global Climate Change	p. 526
Looking Ahead
The Future of International Politics	p. 534
Can the Spread of WMD Be Stopped?	p. 538
What Do Theory and History Tell Us?	p. 539
What Shaped Our World? The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons	p. 540
Preventing the Spread of WMD	p. 543
Will China and the United States Fight for Global Leadership?	p. 548
What Do Theory and History Tell Us?	p. 551
A Coming Showdown or Peaceful Engagement?	p. 554
What Will the United States Do?	p. 556
Will Economic Globalization Continue?	p. 557
What Do Theory and History Tell Us?	p. 559
Resistance to Globalization in the Developed World	p. 562
How Do We Know? Is Globalization Increasing Inequality?	p. 564
Resistance to Globalization in the Developing World	p. 565
Backlash and the International Trading System	p. 566
Will Globalization Lead to Global Government?	p. 568
What Do Theory and History Tell Us?	p. 569
Coming Conflicts over Global Governance	p. 571
Who Will Set the Rules?	p. 573
Conclusion: Can Our Common Interests Prevail?	p. 577
Glossary	p. A-1
Credits	p. A-8
Index	p. A-9
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