Part 1 Interdependence and globalization in the contemporary international system - dispositions and definitions: central problems; contrasting implications of interdependence and globalization; competing definitions of interdependence; methodological and theoretical questions; the construction of interdependence and globalization. Part 2 International interdependence and globalization - the political-economic interface: economic liberalism, the politico-economic relationship, interdependence; Marxist perspectives on politics, economics, interdependence and globalization; economic realist and structuralist approaches to international interdependence and globalization; economic realism; structuralist perspectives; institutionalist perspectives; methodological considerations. Part 3 Interdependence and globalization in a world of states: statism, capitalism and the emergence of the modern international system; politico-military interdependence in a system of conflicting states; strategic interdependence and the security dilemma; rationalist perspectives. Part 4 Interdependence, globalization and challenges to the international order: global interdependence and the moral transcendence of the States' system; the unity of man, world society and a world state; common fate; a world without states; interdependence and globalization; rhetoric and reason; interdependence and a new world order. Part 5 Patterns of economic interdependence: mutual dependence; dependence or interdependence?; sensitivities and international interdependence; connections, vulnerabilities and dependencies. Part 6 Patterns of interconnectedness, interdependence and globalization - the empirical picture: interconnections in the contemporary international economy; trade and dependence; the import dependence of the advanced industrial countries; the import dependence of the less developed countries; the export dependence of the advanced industrial countries; the export dependence of the less developed countries; regional interdependence; financial dependencies. Part 7 The sources of international economic interdependence and globalization: differential resource endowments and contemporary international economic interdependence; development and dependence; economic interdependence and globalization - cause or consequence of international trade?; imperialism; transnational corporations; technology, TNCs, international finance and globalization; financial integration. Part 8 Globalization and levels of interdependence: the claims of atomistic modes of analysis; the holistic critique of atomistic approaches to international phenomena; holistic theories of the contemporary international political economy; complex interdependence and the radical critiques. Part 9 The consequences of international interdependence and globalization. Part 10 The future of international interdependence and globalization.
