
The Global Future
A Brief Introduction to World Politics
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
5th Edition
Published on 1. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-285-06025-5 (ISBN)
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Description
"The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics" helps you understand contemporary events and emerging global trends through a briefer, less expensive text. Every chapter contains thought-provoking case studies, box inserts with rival views on current controversies, a marginal glossary, as well as vivid graphs, maps, and photographs. Centering on the latest international developments, this text encourages you to form your own opinions about the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century.
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Part I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD POLITICS. 1. Analyzing World Politics. 2. Theories of World Politics. 3. The Historical Setting of Contemporary World Politics. Part II. THE ACTORS IN WORLD POLITICS. 4. States and Foreign Policy Decision Making. 5. Intergovernmental Organizations and Global Governance. 6. Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Relations. Part III. THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL SECURITY. 7. Patterns of Armed Conflict. 8. Arms, Alliances, and Coercive Diplomacy. 9. International Law and Human Rights. Part IV. THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WELFARE. 10. The Globalization of International Trade and Finance. 11. The Political Economy of Inequality and Development. 12. Global Environmental Trends and the Future of World Politics.More details
Edition
International ed of 5th revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-285-06025-5 (9781285060255)
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Persons
Charles W. Kegley, Jr., is a founding partner of Kegley International, Inc., a publishing, research, and consulting foundation, and the Corporate Secretary of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Faculty Research Associate at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, he also is Distinguished Pearce Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of South Carolina. Recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award in Foreign Policy of the International Studies Association, Kegley is a graduate of the American University (BA) and Syracuse University (PhD) and is a Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University. His written work is widely published, appearing in more than 45 books and 100 articles. Gregory A. Raymond is the Frank Church Professor of International Relations at Boise State University, where he also is director of the Honors College. Raymond has received nine major teaching awards, including Idaho Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and has published articles and books, including THIRD WORLD POLITICS OF INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS, which received an Outstanding Academic Book Award from the American Library Association. Together Kegley and Raymond have coauthored and/or coedited eight books on world politics and international relations, as well as more than two dozen published articles. A graduate of Park College and the University of South Carolina, Raymond also was a Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University.
Content
Part I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD POLITICS. 1. Analyzing World Politics. 2. Theories of World Politics. 3. The Historical Setting of Contemporary World Politics. Part II. THE ACTORS IN WORLD POLITICS. 4. States and Foreign Policy Decision Making. 5. Intergovernmental Organizations and Global Governance. 6. Nongovernmental Organizations and Transnational Relations. Part III. THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL SECURITY. 7. Patterns of Armed Conflict. 8. Arms, Alliances, and Coercive Diplomacy. 9. International Law and Human Rights. Part IV. THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WELFARE. 10. The Globalization of International Trade and Finance. 11. The Political Economy of Inequality and Development. 12. Global Environmental Trends and the Future of World Politics.