Introduction to Global Politics : Third Edition (Paperback, 3 ed)

Preface

Prologue

Part I: Thinking theoretically about global politics

1 Theoretical approaches to global politics

Part II: The past as prologue to the present

2 The evolution of the interstate system and alternative global political systems

3 The world wars

4 The Cold War

5 Decolonization and the global south

6 Globalization: the new frontier

Part III Living dangerously in a dangerous world

7 Great issues in contemporary global politics

8 Power in global politics and the causes of war

9 Technology and the changing face of warfare

10 Managing conflict: International law and international and transnational organization

Part IV Global issues

11 Identity politics: nationalism, religion, and ethnicity

12 International political economy

13 Human rights

14 Human security

15 The environment: a global collective good

Part V And tomorrow?