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ISBN 10: 0415109450

ISBN 13: 9780415109451

Author: Peter Anderson

This exciting new text adopts a challenging question-led approach to the major issues facing global society today, in order to investigate the nature and complexity of global change. Among other things it looks at the future of the state, the environment, the international political economy, war and global rivalries, and the role of international law and the UN in the post-Cold War world. The book devises a readily comprehensible “change map”, which both incorporates a wide range of the fundamental concepts of international relations theory and suggests a number of new concepts capable of assisting the investigation of global change. This new framework is deployed to look closely at real world issues in order to isolate the crucial factors which determine whether or not mass hunger, for example, or enviromental abuse, can be eliminated.

The Global Politics of Power Justice and Death An Introduction to International Relations 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: A Game Beyond Chess: Explaining the Global Change Map

Introduction

Competition In Global Politics

The Competing Attitudes and Perceptions of Political Elites, Administrative Elites, Business, Technical and Cultural Elites and the Wider Population With Regard to the Desirability of Specific Goals That May Affect Global Change—The Battle for Dominance

The Role of Ideology, Imperatives and Interests

The Role of Power and Influence

The Role of Fortune

The Role of Opportunity Factors

Using the Map

Chapter 2: The American Pivot

What Factors Can Influence US Policy On Global Change?

How Important Is All of This for Global Change?

Chapter 3: Can the State Survive? The Threat from Economic Global Interfusion

Introduction

Preliminary Questions

The Threat to the State Posed By the Global Liberal Capitalist Economic System: The View of Traditional Liberals

The Views of Interventionist Liberals

The Views of the Less Developed States

The Plight of the Former Soviet Union

The Threat from Increasing Global Economic Interfusion — Multinationals Under the Microscope

The Threat to States from International Finance

The Final Balance—For and Against the Liberal System

Chapter 4: The Second Challenge: The Threats to the State from Scientific, Technological and Cultural Aspects of Global Interfusion

Introduction

The Effects of Pollution Internationally

The Effects of Scientific and Technological Developments

Cultural Factors and the Age of Global Travel

The Collective Implications of These Factors for the State

Conclusions

Chapter 5: Global Environmental Problems

Introduction

What Are the Major Current Threats to the Global Environment?

What Are the Solutions to Global Environmental Problems?

What Are the Obstacles In the Way of Solutions?

How and to What Extent Might Such Obstacles Be Overcome?

Chapter 6: The Political Economy of Death: What Causes Global Poverty?

Introduction

Absolute Poverty and Development

What Are the Main Causes of the Global Poverty Problem?

Chapter 7: An End to Global Poverty?

What Are the Solutions to the Global Poverty Problem?

What Are the Obstacles In the Way of the Solutions?

How and to What Extent Might the Obstacles to Solutions Be Overcome?

Women and Development

Chapter 8: A Second United States? Integration In Western Europe

Introduction

What Is the EU and How Far Has Integration Really Gone Within It?

What Are the Main Incentives Towards Further Integration?

What Are the Main Obstacles In the Way of Further Integration?

Chapter 9: The Future of European Integration

Introduction

To What Extent Are the Incentives Towards Further Integration Likely to Overcome the Obstacles?

Scenario I: An Examination of the Possibility of the Emergence of an EU Common Defence Policy

Scenario II: The Single Market and the EMU

Would Continuing European Integration Be a Benefit or a Cost to the Global Community?

Concluding Comments

Chapter 10: Global Rivalries and the Causes of War

Introduction

What Are the Causes of War? An Introduction

A Selective Journey Through Ideas On the Causes of War

Chapter 11: The Control of War

Introduction

To What Extent Can War Be Eliminated?

Are There Some Methods of War Prevention Which Are More Successful Than Others?

Chapter 12: The Problem of ‘Murderous’ and ‘Aggressive’ Regimes— The Role of International Law and the United Nations

Introduction

How Has International Law Developed As a Means of Controlling the Actions of Governments?

What Changes Did the United Nations System Bring?

How Has International Law Attempted to Ensure the Effective Protection of Human Rights?

To What Extent Does International Law Allow the Use of Military Force to Protect Human Rights?

What Action Can Regional Bodies Undertake?

Conclusion

Conclusion: The Future— Can It Be Anticipated and Changed?

Anticipating the Future

Interaction and Global Change

Linkages Between Issues

Conclusion

Appendix: The Wider Purposes of the Change Map

Glossary

Notes

1. A Game Beyond Chess: Explaining the Global Change Map

2. The American Pivot

3. Can the State Survive? The Threat from Economic Global Interfusion

4. The Second Challenge: The Threats to the State from Scientific, Technological and Cultural Aspects of Global Interfusion

5. Global Environmental Problems

6. The Political Economy of Death: What Causes Global Poverty?

7. An End to Global Poverty?

8. A Second United States? Integration In Western Europe

9. The Future of European Integration

10. Global Rivalries and the Causes of War

11. The Control of War

12. The Problem of ‘Murderous’ and ‘Aggressive’ Regimes —The Role of International Law and the United Nations

Conclusion: The Future—Can It Be Anticipated and Changed?

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