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| Theory and Global Politics | |
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| Theoretical Approaches to Global Politics | |
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| What is Theory and Why Do We Need It? | |
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| Many Theories, Many Meanings | |
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| Many Theories, Many Meanings | |
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| Levels of Analysis | |
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| Making Sense of a Complex World: Theory and Global Politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Past as Prologue to the Present | |
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| The Evolution of the Interstate System and Alternative Global Political Systems | |
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| The Eemergence of the European Interstate Ssystem | |
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| China: The Confucian Empire | |
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| Islam's Founding and Expansion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The World Wars | |
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| Events Leading to the Great War | |
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| Explaining the Outbreak of World War One | |
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| The Peace of Versailles | |
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| The Failure of Collective Security | |
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| Appeasement and its Consequences | |
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| On the Road to Pearl Harbor | |
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| Individual-Level Explanations | |
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| Unit-Level Explanations | |
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| System-Level Explanations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Explaining the Origins of the Cold War | |
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| The Cold War Spreads and Deepens | |
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| The Cold War Winds Down | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| Russia after the Cold War | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Global South | |
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| Europe's Empires | |
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| The Decolonization of Asia and Africa | |
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| The Politics of Nonalignment, Nation Building and Economic Development | |
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| The BRICs and Global Governance | |
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| An Economic Giant Awakens | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Globalization: The New Frontier | |
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| Features of Globalization | |
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| The Historical Roots of Globalization | |
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| Competing Perspectives on Globalization | |
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| The Globalization Debate | |
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| The State in Decline? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Living Dangerously in a Dangerous World | |
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| Great Issues in Contemporary Global Politics | |
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| The Nuclear Proliferation Regime | |
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| China and the United States: A New Bipolarity? | |
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| Israel and Palestine | |
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| Militant Islam: The "Green Menace" | |
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| 9/11 and the War on Terrorism | |
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| The Changing Middle East | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Causes of War and the Changing Nature of Global Violence | |
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| The Quest for Power and Influence | |
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| The Causes of Interstate War | |
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| The Causes of Intrastate War | |
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| Managing Intrastate War | |
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| Irregular Warfare | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Technology and the Changing Face of Warfare | |
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| War as an Extension of Politics | |
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| On the Road to Total War: The World Wars | |
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| Technology and Interstate War | |
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| Strategies in a Nuclear Age | |
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| The Era of Smart Weapons | |
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| Cyberwar | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Global Actors and Institutions | |
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| International Law and Organization and the Quest for Peace | |
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| The "Law of Nations" | |
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| International Organizations | |
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| The League of Nations | |
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| The United Nations | |
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| Regional International Organizations | |
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| International Oganizations and Peace | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Rights: The Individual in Global Politics | |
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| The Holocaust and the Genocide Convention | |
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| The Nuremberg Precedent and the Evolution of International Criminal Tribunals | |
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| Individual Rights under International Law | |
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| Women's Rights as Human Rights | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Global Issues | |
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| Human Security | |
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| The Idea of Human Security | |
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| Poverty and Economic Development | |
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| Transnational Crime | |
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| The Arms Trade | |
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| The Global Movement of Persons | |
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| Globalized Diseases | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Identity Politics: Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity | |
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| Multiple Identities | |
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| Manipulating Identities | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Religious Identities | |
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| Ethnic Identities | |
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| The Brutal Break-Up of Yugoslavia | |
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| Approaches to Culture | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| International Political Economy | |
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| The Beginnings of a Global Economy | |
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| Theories of Political Economy | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| The Bretton Woods Institutions | |
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| Hegemonic Stability | |
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| Transnational Corporations: Engines of Global Capitalism | |
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| States and Markets | |
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| The Asian Contagion | |
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| The American Contagion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Environment: A Global Collective Good | |
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| Collective Goods and Collective Fates | |
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| Population and Environment | |
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| Deteriorating Global Ecology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| And Tomorrow? | |
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| Epilogue: A Future Dimly Seen | |
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| Alternative Futures | |
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| Conclusion: An Uncertain Future | |