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Essential readings in world politics /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mingst, Karen A., 1947-, Snyder, Jack L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Norton series in world politics.
Subjects:
International relations.
World politics.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Approaches
  • "One world, rival theories" / Jack Snyder
  • "Melian dialogue" / Thucydides
  • "To perpetual peace : a philosophical sketch" / Immanuel Kant
  • from Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism : a popular outline / V.I. Lenin
  • History
  • "The Fourteen Points" / Woodrow Wilson
  • "The sources of Soviet conduct" / George F. Kennan ("X")
  • "The end of history?" / Francis Fukuyama
  • "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America" / George W. Bush
  • Contending perspectives
  • "A realist theory of international politics" and "Political power" / Hans Morgenthau
  • "Anarchy and the struggle for power" / John Mearsheimer
  • "Liberalism and world politics" / Michael W. Doyle
  • "Anarchy is what states make of it : the social construction of power politics" / Alexander Wendt
  • "Man, the state, and war : gendered perspectives on national security" / J. Ann Tickner
  • The international system
  • "Does order exist in world politics?" / Hedley Bull
  • "The balance of power," "Different methods of the balance of power," and "Evaluation of the balanced power" / Hans Morgenthau
  • "The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system : concepts for comparative analysis" / Immanuel Wallerstein
  • "Systemic leadership, evolutionary processes, and international relations theory : the unipolarity question" / William R. Thompson
  • "Imperialism, liberalism and the quest for perpetual peace" / Anthony Pagden
  • The state
  • "Sharing sovereignty : new institutions for collapsed and failing states" / Stephen D. Krasner
  • "The real new world order" / Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • "The clash of civilizations?" / Samuel P. Huntington
  • "Political Islam : asking the wrong questions?" / Yahya Sadowski.
  • The individual
  • "Hypotheses on misperception" / Robert Jervis
  • from Retreat from Doomsday : the obsolescence of major war / John Mueller
  • IGOs, NGOs, and international law
  • "The political origins of the UN Security Council's ability to legitimize the use of force" / Erik Voeten
  • "A too perfect union? Why Europe said 'No'" / Andrew Moravcsik
  • "Transnational advocacy networks in international politics" and "Human rights advocacy networks in Latin America" / Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn Sikkink
  • "Bystanders to genocide : why the United States let the Rwandan tragedy happen" / Samantha Power
  • "The pitfalls of universal jurisdiction" / Henry A. Kissinger
  • "The case for universal jurisdiction" / Kenneth Roth
  • "The false promise of international institutions" / John J. Mearsheimer
  • War and strife
  • "War as an instrument of policy" / Carl Von Clausewitz
  • "The diplomacy of violence" / Thomas C. Schelling
  • "Cooperation under the security dilemma" / Robert Jervis
  • "How to keep the bomb from Iran" / Scott D. Sagan
  • from Final solutions : mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century / Benjamin A. Valentino
  • "The security dilemma and ethnic conflict" / Barry R. Posen
  • "The strategic logic of suicide terrorism" / Robert A. Pape
  • "Why terrorism does not work" / Max Abrahms
  • "Oil, drugs, and diamonds : the varying roles of natural resources in civil war" / Michael L. Ross
  • "A feminist ethical perspective on weapons of mass destruction" / Carol Cohn, Sara Ruddick
  • International political economy
  • "The nature of political economy" / Robert Gilpin
  • "Globalization, development, and international institutions : normative and positive perspectives" / Helen V. Milner
  • from Why globalization works / Martin Wolf
  • "The five wars of globalization" / Moisés Naím
  • "The first law of petropolitics" / Thomas L. Friedman
  • "Female labor, regional crises, and feminist responses" / Valentine M. Moghadam
  • Globalization and globalizing issues
  • "The healers : triumph and tragedy" / William Easterly
  • "The next pandemic?" / Laurie Garrett
  • "Universal truths : human rights and the Westernizing illusion" / Amartya Sen
  • "The attack on human rights" / Michael Ignatieff.