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| Setting the World Stage | |
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| Core Concepts and Historical Contexts | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Countries | |
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| State Formation | |
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| End of European Imperialism | |
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| North versus South | |
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| The West versus 'the Rest'Case Study: The American Empire? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further ResearchNotes | |
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| Population and Environment | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Population | |
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| Case Study: The French Ban on Muslim Head Scarves | |
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| Case Study: The Darfur Region of Sudan | |
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| Transition from Human Population to Natural Environment | |
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| Environment and Resources | |
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| Optimism versus Pessimism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further ResearchNotes | |
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| Comparative Culture | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Structure and Ideology of the State | |
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| Case Study: Iran's Religious Regime | |
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| Case Study: Classical Liberalism in the United States | |
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| Case Study: Socialist Societies, both Moderate and Democratic, and Extreme and Communist | |
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| Religion | |
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| Case Study: The Arab-Israeli Conflict | |
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| Case Study: Tibet and China | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further Research | |
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| Notes | |
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| Core Dynamics: Nation versus World | |
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| Foreign Policy and International Politics | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Powers | |
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| Emerging Powers | |
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| Decling Powers | |
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| The Goals of Foreign Policy in General | |
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| The Tools of Foreign Policy | |
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| Case Study: Can-Am Relations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further ResearchNotes | |
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| International Law and Organization | |
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| International Law | |
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| The Process of Treaty-Making | |
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| International Organization | |
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| Case Study: The Birth of an International Institution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further Research | |
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| Notes | |
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| Traditional Issues of 'Hard Power': Bucks and Bullets | |
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| International Trade and Business | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Summarizing the Drivers of Economic Growth | |
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| International Trade | |
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| Case Study: Asia and Export-Led Development | |
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| International Business | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further ResearchNotes | |
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| Armed Conflict I: Causes and Outbreak | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| War Defined | |
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| War's Costs and Casualties | |
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| What Causes War, and Is There a Solution? | |
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| Regulating the Outbreak of War | |
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| Case Study: A Tale of Two Recent Wars: Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further ResearchNotes | |
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| Armed Conflict II: Methods and Aftermath | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining Some Military Terms | |
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| Fighting a War | |
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| Case Study: The My Lai Massacre | |
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| Case Study: Child Soldiers | |
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| Jus Post Bellum: Aftermath | |
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| Case Study: Two Examples of the Retribution Model | |
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| Case Study: Reconstructing Germany and Japan | |
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| Case Study: Reconstruction Models Applied to Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further Research | |
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| Notes | |
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| Newer Issues of 'Soft Power': Improving Well-Being | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Recent Human Rights History | |
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| Completing the Values Picture: The Point of Human Rights | |
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| Realizing Human Rights | |
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| International Human Rights Law | |
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| Case Study: The European Human Rights System | |
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| Other Tools for Human Rights | |
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| Case Study: The Arab Spring | |
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| Human Rights NGOs | |
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| Women's Human Rights | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Further ResearchNotes | |
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| Jennifer E. Mc | |
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| Whirter: Global Public Health | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Health and History | |
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| Global Public Health and Other Fields of International Studies | |
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| What is Health? | |
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| What is Public Health? | |
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| Case Study: John Snow and the Tracing of a Cholera Outbreak | |
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| A Tale of Two Cities: North versus South | |
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| Case Study: The Global Tobacco Epidemic | |
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| A Tale of Two Neighbourhoods: North versus North | |
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| Global Poverty and Health Inequality | |
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| Case Study: Maternal Health | |
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| The Other Side of Darkness | |
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| Case Study: Smallpox | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Futher Research | |
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| Notes | |
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| International Aid and Development | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Should the Developed World Care? | |
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| Aid versus Development | |
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| Rival Concepts of Development | |
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| Sources of Development Assistance | |
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| Three Waves of Development | |
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| Case Study: Micro-Finance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Websites for Futher Research | |
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| Notes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Could World Government Be the Solution? | |
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| Kant's Cosmopolitan Federation | |
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| Conclusion: Bottom-Up Pluralism, Revisited | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |