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WORLD POLITICS: THE MENU FOR CHOICE, consistently praised as one of the best available combinations of theory and issues, provides students with the tools they need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations. It incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an accessible introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations. The text, tables, and figures have been thoroughly updated and new material has been added which relates conceptual and analytic tools to contemporary developments in world affairs. Users have consistently praised this text as one of the best available combinations of theory and issues coverage.
Synopsis
WORLD POLITICS provides students with the tools they need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations. It incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an accessible introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations. The text, tables, and figures have been thoroughly updated and new material has been added which relates conceptual and analytic tools to contemporary developments in world affairs.
Synopsis
Get the tools you need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations with WORLD POLITICS: THE MENU FOR CHOICE. This textbook incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations.
About the Author
BRUCE RUSSETT is Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Director of United Nations Studies at Yale University. Since 1972 he has edited the Journal of Conflict Resolution and has been president of the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society (International). He has also taught at Columbia University, M.I.T., and the Free University of Brussels, and was Visiting Professor of International Capital Markets Law at the University of Tokyo. His publications include 21 books and approximately 200 articles.HARVEY STARR is the Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the former president of the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association (1992-95), APSA V-Pvice resident (1996-96), and President of the Peace Science Society (2000-01). Currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Politics, he served as Editor of International Interactions from 1991-2000. He specializes in international relations theory and method, international conflict, geopolitics, and foreign policy analysis.DAVID KINSELLA is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, where he teaches courses on national security policy, international relations
theory, political economy, and research methodology. He is former president of the International Studies Association's Midwest Region. He has also taught at American University, the University of Missouri, and Yale, and was a Mershon postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University. His areas of research include the arms trade, Third World arms production, political economy of national defense, and international conflict processes. His articles have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, and elsewhere.
Table of Contents
Part I: ANALYZING WORLD POLITICS. 1. World Politics: Levels of Analysis, Choice, and Constraint. 2. Thinking about World Politics: Theory and Reality. 3. International Actors: States and Other Players on the World Stage. 4. The World System: International Structure and Polarity. 5. Relations Between States: Power and Influence. 6. Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: Society and Polity. 7. Individuals and World Politics: Roles, Perceptions, and Decision Making. Part II: INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND COOPERATION. 8. Military Conflict: Why States and Other Actors Resort to Force. 9. The Security Dilemma: Armament and Disarmament. 10. International Law and Organization. 11. Causes of Peace and Nonviolent Transformation. Part III: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. 12. Political Economy of National Security and Defense. 13. Interdependence and Economic Order. 14. Regional Economic Integration and Globalization. 15. Development and Underdevelopment: the North-south Gap. Part IV: CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM. 16. Limits of Sovereignty: Humanity and the Commons. 17. Which Global Future? Glossary. Appendix A: Chronology of World Events. Appendix B: Characteristics of States in the Contemporary International System. Author Index. Subject Index.