WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION offers analysis of the most up-to-date data, research, and contemporary events from today's international political stage
What must the United States do to remain the global superpower and stop alienating the rest of the world? The author of the bestselling "The Paradox of American Power" has one clear answer: soft power.
New InQuizitive activities—created and tested by instructors who teach with World Politics—then invite students to practice applying the analytical tools from the text to alternative examples and cases.
rofessor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order.
This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation.
This book will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, global politics, economics and related disciplines.
This book is an eye-opening account of transnational advocacy, not by environmental and rights groups, but by conservative activists.
For Beitz and Moellendorf, John Rawls's substantive account of justice can provide the criteria for justice globally (see Box 13.5). Rawls rejected the possibility of global distributive justice modelled on his theory.
The chiefs of staff shrank from the prospect of embarking on a war with China which might drag on for years, ... He sent to the Republican leader in the House of Representatives Joseph W. Martin a letter which was read in the House and ...
The resulting Camp David Accords had many flaws and did not bring ultimate peace to the Middle East. The agreement is monumentally significant, however, because Carter's initiative has thus far prevented another general war between ...
Civilizing World Politics offers an innovative approach to the changing contexts of global politics, moving beyond the ever more fuzzy debate on globalization to a concept of world society that transcends the nation state and embraces ...