Introduction to Global Politics

Interstate War 8.3 The Causes of Intrastate War 8.4 Managing Intrastate War 8.5 Irregular Warfare 8.6 Conclusion 9. Technology and the Changing Face of Warfare 9.1 War as an Extension of Politics 9.2 On the Road to Total War: The World Wars 9.3 Technology and Interstate War 9.4 Strategies in a Nuclear Age 9.5 The Era of Smart Weapons 9.6 Cyberwar 9.7 Conclusion Part 4: Global Actors and Institutions 10. International Law and Organization and the Quest for Peace 10.1 The "Law of Nations" 10.2 International Organizations 10.3 The League of Nations 10.4 The United Nations 10.5 Regional International Organizations 10.6 International Oganizations and Peace 10.7 Conclusion 11. Human Rights: The Individual in Global Politics 11.1 The Holocaust and the Genocide Convention 11.2 The Nuremberg Precedent and the Evolution of International Criminal Tribunals 11.3 Individual Rights under International Law 11.4 Women's Rights as Human Rights 11.5 Conclusion Part 5: Global Issues 12. Human Security 12.1 The Idea of Human Security 12.2 Poverty and Economic Development 12.3 Transnational Crime 12.4 The Arms Trade 12.5 The Global Movement of Persons 12.6 Globalized Diseases 12.7 Conclusion 13. Identity Politics: Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity 13.1 Multiple Identities 13.2 Manipulating Identities 13.3 Nationalism 13.4 Religious Identities 13.5 Ethnic Identities 13.6 The Brutal Break-Up of Yugoslavia 13.7 Approaches to Culture 13.8 Conclusion 14. International Political Economy 14.1 The Beginnings of a Global Economy 14.2 Theories of Political Economy 14.3 The Great Depression 14.4 The Bretton Woods Institutions 14.5 Hegemonic Stability 14.6 Transnational Corporations: Engines of Global Capitalism 14.7 States and Markets 14.8 The Asian Contagion 14.9 The American Contagion 14.10 Conclusion 15. The Environment: A Global Collective Good 15.1 Collective Goods and Collective Fates 15.2 Population and Environment 15.3 Deteriorating Global Ecology 15.4 Conclusion Part 6: And Tomorrow? 16. Epilogue: A Future Dimly Seen 16.1 Alternative Futures 16.2 Conclusion: An Uncertain Future

and Taylor expertly explain today's global political challenges in historical and cultural context, helping students to understand the alternative approaches to dealing with conflict, and to building cooperation, that human societies have imagined and attempted. Global politics emerge from these pages not as a static set of constraints and imperatives, but as a dynamic, ever-changing, multi-dimensional reality -- a world in which ideas, identities, interests, and institutions are constantly evolving. This is a world in which individuals have the capacity to change the realities which are shaping their lives, a world in which knowledge and understanding open doors to new possibilities.' - Edward Rhodes, George Mason University, USA 'Theory, history, and current issues are masterfully woven together in this important new book. The authors' excellent use of vivid real-life examples, figures, pictures, timelines and sideboxes, all serve to illustrate theoretical concepts in a way that will grab the attention of undergraduate and graduate students alike; and with its thought-provoking discussion and essay questions, this textbook virtually teaches itself. A major contribution to the learning and understanding of globalization, this book is evidence that globalization studies have truly come into their own.' - Ersel Aydinli, Bilkent University, Turkey