CHAPTER 1 IS THERE AN ENDURING LOGIC OF CONFLICT IN WPRLD POLITICS?

What Is International Politics?

Two Views of Anarchic Politics

Building Blocks

The Peloponnesian War

AShort Version of aLong Story

Causes and Theories

Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future

Ethical Questions and International Politics

Limits on Ethics in International Relations

Three Views of the Role of Morality

Chronology:Peloponnesian Wars

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 2 ORIGINS OF THE GREAT TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONFLICTS

International Systems and Levels of Causation

Levels of Analysis

Systems:Structure and Process

Revolutionary and Moderate Goals and Instruments

The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth Century System

A Modern Sequel

Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

Liberalism Revived

Liberal Democracya nd War

Definition of National Interests

Variations in Foreign Policies

Counterfactuals

Plausibility

Proximity in Time

Relation to Theory

Facts

Chronologies:Europe

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 3 BALANCE OF POWER AND WORLD WAR Ⅰ

Balance of Power

Power

Balances as Distributions of Power

Balance of Power as Policy

Balance of Powet as Multipolar Systems

Alliances

The Origins of World War Ⅰ

Three Levels of Analysis

Was War Inevitable?

What Kind of War?

The Funnel of Choices

Lessons of History Again

Chronology:The Road to World War Ⅰ

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 4 THE FAILURE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND WORLD WAR Ⅱ

The Rise and Fall of Collective Security

The League of Nations

The United States and the League of Nations

The Early Days of the League

The Manchurian Failure

The Ethiopian Debacle

The Origins of World War Ⅱ

Hitler's War?

Hitler's Strategy

The Role of the Individual

Systemic and Domestic Causes

Was War Inevitable?

The Pacific War

Appeasement and Two Types of War

Chronology:Between the World Wars

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 5 THE COLD WAR

Deterrence and Containment

Three Approaches to the Cold War

Roosevelt's Policies

Stalin's Policies

Phases of the Conflict

Inevitability?

Levels of Analysis

U.S.and Soviet Goals in the Cold War

Containment

The Rest of the Cold War

The End of the Cold War

The Role of Nuclear Weapons

Physics and Politics

Balance of Terror

Problems of Nuclear Deterrence

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Moral Issues

Chronology:The Cold War Years

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 6 INTERVENTION,INSTITUTIONS,AND REGIONAL AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS

Ethnic Conflicts

Intervention and Sovereignty

Defining Intervention

Sovereignty

Judging Intervention

Exceptions to the Rule

Problems of SeIf-Determination

Motives,Means,and Consequences

International Law and Organization

Domestic Analogies

Predictability and Legitimacy

The Suez Canal Crisis

U.N.Peacekeeping and Collective Security

Conflicts in the Middle East

The Questions ofNationalism

The Arab-Israeli Conflicts

The 1991 Gulf War and Its Aftermath

Chronology:TheArab-Israeli Conflict

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 7 GLOBALIZATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE

The Dimensions of Globalization

What's New About Twenty-first Century Globalization?

Political Reactions to Globalization

Economic Interdependence and Conflict

The Concept of Interdependence

Sources of Interdependence

Benefits of Interdependence

Costs of Interdependence

Symmetry of Interdependence

Leadership in the World Economy

Realism and Complex Interdependence

The Politics of Oil

Oil as a Power Resource

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 8 THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION,TRANSNATIONAL ACTORS,AND THE DIFFUSION OF POWER

Power and the Information Revolution

Lessons from the Past

A New World Politics?

Sovereignty and Control

Transnational Actors

Nongovernmental Organizations(NGOs)

Transnational Terrorism

Information and Power Among States

The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence

The Information Revolution and Democratization

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

CHAPTER 9 A NEw WORLD ORDER?

Alternative Designs forthe Future

The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations?

Technology and the Diffusion of Power

Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Transnational Threats and the Concept of Security

A New World Order?

Future Configurations of Power

The Prison ofOld Concepts

The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order

Thinking About the Future

Study Questions

Notes

Selected Readings

Further Readings

GLOSSARY

CREDITS

INDEX