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| List of Figures, Tables, Boxes and Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Notes on the Contributors | |
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| Issues in World Politics | |
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| The end of the Cold War and a new global agenda? | |
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| Issues and problems | |
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| Issues, agendas and agenda-setting | |
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| Types of issues | |
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| The significance of issues in world politics | |
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| The management of issues in world politics | |
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| Selection of issues and key questions | |
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| States and Statehood | |
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| The nature of statehood: organization and practice | |
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| Statehood as a problem in world politics | |
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| Statehood and the post-Cold War world | |
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| Statehood and contemporary world politics | |
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| Trade, Money and Markets | |
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| Economic interdependence: a set of issues | |
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| The scope and intensity of economic interdependence | |
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| General problems of economic interdependence | |
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| Putting issues of economic interdependence on the international agenda | |
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| Economic interdependence and the end of the Cold War | |
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| Managing global economic interdependence | |
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| Economic interdependence and contemporary world politics | |
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| Regions and Regionalism | |
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| Regions and regionalism: characteristics and driving forces | |
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| Problems of regionalism | |
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| Regions, regionalism and the international agenda | |
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| Regionalism in the post-Cold War world | |
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| Managing regionalism | |
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| Regions and regionalism: implications for world politics | |
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| Development and Inequality | |
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| Issues of development and inequality | |
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| The general problem of development and inequality | |
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| Development and inequality on the international agenda | |
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| Development and inequality in the post Cold War era | |
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| Managing issues of development and inequality | |
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| Development, inequality and world politics | |
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| Arms and Arms Control | |
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| The significance of arms and arms control issues | |
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| General problems of arms and weapons-related issues | |
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| Arms and arms control on the international agenda | |
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| International control mechanisms | |
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| Arms, arms control and contemporary world politics | |
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| Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention | |
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| Peace-support measures as an issue in world politics | |
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| Agenda-setting and form of presentation after the Cold War | |
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| Contextual problems of peace-support operations | |
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| International management | |
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| Peace support and contemporary world politics | |
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| Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict | |
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| Ethnicity as an issue | |
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| General problems of nationalism and ethnic conflict | |
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| Putting ethno-nationalist conflict on the international agenda | |
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| Nationalism, ethnic conflict and the end of the Cold War | |
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| Managing ethnic conflict | |
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| Nationalism, ethnic conflict and contemporary world politics | |
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| Religion | |
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| The impact of religion on world politics | |
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| Religion and globalization | |
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| Religion in contemporary world politics | |
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| Why has religion appeared as an issue on the world agenda? | |
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| Are hostile religious and cultural actors a threat to the West's security? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Migration and Refugees | |
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| Migration as an international issue | |
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| People on the move | |
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| New patterns of migration | |
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| The pros and cons of migration | |
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| Putting migration and refugees on the international agenda | |
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| Institutional responses to migration and refugees | |
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| Migration and contemporary world politics | |
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| Environment and Natural Resources | |
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| International awareness: from Stockholm to Rio | |
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| The rising profile of environmental issues | |
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| The role of international cooperation | |
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| Getting on the international agenda | |
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| Environmental issues after the Cold War | |
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| Managing environmental problems | |
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| The environment and contemporary world politics | |
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| Media and Communications Technology | |
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| Media and state power | |
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| Media as 'actors' in world politics | |
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| Media as agents of 'cultural transmission' | |
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| Media, citizens and 'subjectivity' | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Transnational Crime and Corruption | |
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| Transnational crime and corruption as an issue in world politics | |
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| Problems of crime and corruption | |
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| Crime and corruption on the international agenda: key concepts | |
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| Crime and corruption after the Cold War | |
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| Managing crime and corruption: criminal organizations versus states | |
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| Crime, corruption and world politics | |
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| Issues in World Politics Reviewed | |
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| The selection of issues | |
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| Links between issues | |
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| Issues and contemporary world politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |