Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 150
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 150
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Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States provides readers the means to understand, grow, and engage in upper-division World Politics. The text encourages students to not just read, but engage with the material which in return will increase enjoyment of, and apparition for, the discipline.
Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States:
- Features a succinct approach to the discipline. Unlike other books for “introductory” courses, the authors don’t ‘cram’ too much content and detail into their reading. Rather, they cut to the main points which they find essential for make since of how the world works.
- Challenges readers to not fear the word ‘theory’, but rather the authors take readers on a methodical journey through the development and application of three central theories.
- Educates readers on foreign policy challenges faced by the United States such as international security, international organizations, and law and international economics.
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: Theories and Foreign Policies
CHAPTER 3: Security, Conflict, and War
CHAPTER 4: International Organizations and International Law
CHAPTER 5: International Political Economy (IPE)
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
What Is World Politics?
How Is World Politics Studied?
What Actors Exist in World Politics?
What Is an International System?
What Is Power?
CHAPTER 2: Theories and Foreign Policies
Why Are Theories Important?
How Can We Judge Theories?
Contending Theories of World Politics
Theories and Levels of Analysis
Introduction to Realism
Introduction to Liberalism
Introduction to the Radical Approach
Case Study: The Second Persian Gulf War
Foreign Policy Approaches
CHAPTER 3: Security, Conflict, and War
What Are Security, Conflict, and War?
Trends in Conflicts and Casualties
The Causes of Armed Conflicts and Wars
Theoretical Explanations for Armed Conflicts and Wars
Issues in International Security
Theoretical Perspectives on Terrorism and WMD
CHAPTER 4: International Organizations and International Law
Types of International Organizations
Global and Regional IGOs: United Nations and the European Union
Do NGOs Affect World Politics?
International Law
Theoretical Perspectives on International Organizations and Law
CHAPTER 5: International Political Economy (IPE)
Introduction: Post-War IPE
Theories of IPE
Early 20th Century IPE
Post-War International Institutions, Agreements, and Principles
Post-War IPE
Bibliography
Index
Stephen M. Hill is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He teaches courses in US foreign policy and international conflict. He has published on issues concerning international and civil conflict resolution, small arms control, and US policing, in a number of journals, including Democracy and Security, Social Justice and Contemporary Security Policy. He is the author of UN Disarmament Processes in Intra-State Conflict, Palgrave Macmillan (2004).
Ali R. Abootalebi is Professor of Middle Eastern and Global Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of Islam and democracy: State-Society Relations in Developing Countries, 1980-1994 (2000) and numerous articles on Iran, Arab Politics, Civil Society and Democracy and U.S. foreign policy. He also serves as research committee member for Center for Global Nonkilling. He can be reached at abootaar@uwec.edu
Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States provides readers the means to understand, grow, and engage in upper-division World Politics. The text encourages students to not just read, but engage with the material which in return will increase enjoyment of, and apparition for, the discipline.
Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States:
- Features a succinct approach to the discipline. Unlike other books for “introductory” courses, the authors don’t ‘cram’ too much content and detail into their reading. Rather, they cut to the main points which they find essential for make since of how the world works.
- Challenges readers to not fear the word ‘theory’, but rather the authors take readers on a methodical journey through the development and application of three central theories.
- Educates readers on foreign policy challenges faced by the United States such as international security, international organizations, and law and international economics.
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: Theories and Foreign Policies
CHAPTER 3: Security, Conflict, and War
CHAPTER 4: International Organizations and International Law
CHAPTER 5: International Political Economy (IPE)
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
What Is World Politics?
How Is World Politics Studied?
What Actors Exist in World Politics?
What Is an International System?
What Is Power?
CHAPTER 2: Theories and Foreign Policies
Why Are Theories Important?
How Can We Judge Theories?
Contending Theories of World Politics
Theories and Levels of Analysis
Introduction to Realism
Introduction to Liberalism
Introduction to the Radical Approach
Case Study: The Second Persian Gulf War
Foreign Policy Approaches
CHAPTER 3: Security, Conflict, and War
What Are Security, Conflict, and War?
Trends in Conflicts and Casualties
The Causes of Armed Conflicts and Wars
Theoretical Explanations for Armed Conflicts and Wars
Issues in International Security
Theoretical Perspectives on Terrorism and WMD
CHAPTER 4: International Organizations and International Law
Types of International Organizations
Global and Regional IGOs: United Nations and the European Union
Do NGOs Affect World Politics?
International Law
Theoretical Perspectives on International Organizations and Law
CHAPTER 5: International Political Economy (IPE)
Introduction: Post-War IPE
Theories of IPE
Early 20th Century IPE
Post-War International Institutions, Agreements, and Principles
Post-War IPE
Bibliography
Index
Stephen M. Hill is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He teaches courses in US foreign policy and international conflict. He has published on issues concerning international and civil conflict resolution, small arms control, and US policing, in a number of journals, including Democracy and Security, Social Justice and Contemporary Security Policy. He is the author of UN Disarmament Processes in Intra-State Conflict, Palgrave Macmillan (2004).
Ali R. Abootalebi is Professor of Middle Eastern and Global Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of Islam and democracy: State-Society Relations in Developing Countries, 1980-1994 (2000) and numerous articles on Iran, Arab Politics, Civil Society and Democracy and U.S. foreign policy. He also serves as research committee member for Center for Global Nonkilling. He can be reached at abootaar@uwec.edu