This text provides a balanced analysis of geopolitics and geoeconomics and their interrelationship. Its presentation combines a theoretical approach with both historical and contemporary perspectives in order to comprehensively depict the evolution of the global political economy. The author critically examines the "interdependent" relations among industrialized countries as well as the "dependent" relations between industrialized and less developed countries. An important theme in all of the geoeconomic chapters is the relationship between internal and external forces in shaping a nation state's development or under-development and the subsequent impact on national interests, policies, power and international relations. The text offers important sections on political and economic regionalism, such as the European Union and North American Free Trade Association. Global environmental crisis and the international community's attempt to manage them is also covered. Throughout, the text analyzes the role of perceptions and misperceptions in shaping conflicts, interests, policies and power.
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978-0-673-99305-2 (9780673993052)
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Part 1 Development of the global political economy: development of the modern world - from Florence to the Marne; from Versailles to Rio de Janeiro. Part 2 The nation state and international relations: nations, nation-states and nationalism; the power and wealth of nations; foreign policy making and implementation. Part 3 Non-state forces and actors in international relations: international law and morality; international organizations. Part 4 Geopolitical conflict and cooperation: why nations go to war and stay at peace; the cold war - origins, strategies, aftermath; the nuclear arms race and its control; the changing nature of war and international relations. Part 5 geoeconomic conflict and cooperation among the democratic industrial countries: geoeconomic strategies for a global political economy - regulatory, developmental and social capitalism; the politics of interdependence among the democratic industrial countries. Part 6 Geoeconomic conflict and cooperation between the first and Third worlds: political development, underdevelopment and international relations; economic development, underdevelopment and international relations; the policies of dependence between the first and Third world. Part 7 Fate of the earth: the global environmental crisis; the global political economy into the 21st century - perils and prospects.
