Global politics in a changing world : a reader

✍ Scribed by Richard W Mansbach; Edward Joseph Rhodes

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Edition: 4th ed
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Continuity and change in global politics --
Turbulence in world politics: a theory of change and continuity / James N. Rosenau --
Bloggers may be the real opposition / The Economist --
Sovereignty, borders, and real life --
Why the world isn't flat / Pankaj Ghemawat --
Our borderless world / Moisés Naím --
Cities mesh across blurry border, despite physical barrier / Marc Lacey --
The Twenty-First-Century state? --
We need rules for sovereign funds / Jeffrey Garten --
pt. I. The changing nature of war --
2. Out of control? The rise of postmodern war and terrorism --
The new wars / Herfried Münkler --
The global menace of local strife / The Economist --
Targeting the innocent: terrorism --
Strategies of terrorism / Andrew H. Kydd and Barbara F. Walter --
Hiring an army: mercenaries and private military contractors --
The private surge / Steve Fainaru --
War by electron: cyberwar --
Cyber attack vexes Estonia, poses debate / Christopher Rhoads --
A world wide web of terror / The Economist --
3. Weapons of mass destruction: thinking about the unthinkable, again --
The new threat of mass destruction / Richard K. Betts --
Nuclear proliferation --
Bombs away / The Economist --
Ballistic missile defense --
U.S. missile defense / International Institute for Strategic Studies --
The consequences of a "limited" nuclear war --
Climate effects of a nuclear war / Alan Robock --
Biological weapons --
With custom-built pathogens come new fears / Joby Warrick --
pt. II. Disintegration and integration in today's world --
4. Democracy: a global institution? --
History is still going our way / Francis Fukuyama --
The return of authoritarian great powers / Azar Gat --
Dictating democracy --
America's crusade / Edward Rhodes --
America's crisis of legitimacy / Robert Kagan --
Religion and democracy --
Why God is winning / Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft --
Islamists suffer as freedom slips down the Mideast agenda / Heba Saleh --
5. Failed states --
Failed states in a world of terror / Robert I. Rotberg --
Africa's revolutionary deficit / Jeremy M. Weinstein --
The coming anarchy / Robert D. Kaplan --
Haiti --
UN troops fight Haiti's gangs one battered street at a time / Marc Lacey --
Iraq --
The 10th circle / Terry McCarthy --
6. Solving shared problems: intergovernmental organizations --
The United Nations --
International organizations: perspectives on governance in the Twenty-First Century / Kelly-Kate S. Pease --
The United Nations / The Economist --
The International Monetary Fund --
The IMF and democratic governance / Devesh Kapur and Moisés Naím --
The European Union --
Standard bearer: how the European Union exports its laws / Tobias Buck --
7. Ties that bind: the rise of transnational institutions --
Power shift / Jessica T. Mathews --
Learning to live with NGOs / P.J. Simmons --
NGOs and states --
NGOs: sins of the secular missionaries / The Economist --
What is a gongo? / Moisés Naím --
TNCs --
Mountain of gold leaves a river of waste / Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner --
NGOs and TNCs --
How a global web of activists gives Coke problems in India / Steve Stecklow --
The NGO-TNC-State nexus --
More than the sum of the parts / Sarah Murray --
8. Thy brother's keeper: human rights and international law in the posinternational era --
Are human rights universal? / Thomas M. Franck --
Taming Leviathan / The Economist --
An international criminal court --
If not peace, then justice / Elizabeth Rubin --
pt. III. A new security agenda in a globalized world --
9. The problem of soft security: crime, disease, and dangerous products in a globalized world --
Redefining security --
Human security in a globalized world / Rob McRae --
Crime --
The five wars of globalization / Moisés Naím --
In Afghanistan, heroin trade soars despite U.S. aid / Philip Shishkin and David Crawford --
Disease --
Together, in sickness and in health / Natalie Angier --
Dangerous products --
Dangers for both pets and people / Ariana Eunjung Cha --
10. Managing a global economy --
The challenge of global capitalism / Robert Gilpin --
Economic globalization --
In the shadow of prosperity / The Economist --
How trade barriers keep Africans adrift / Juliane von Reppert-Bismark --
Monetary and financial issues --
The ABCs of global money and finance / Peter J. Dombrowski --
China, India, and a new international economic order --
The new new world order / Daniel W. Drezner --
11. Poverty and development --
The tangled web: the poverty-insecurity nexus / Lael Brainard, Derek Chollet, and Vinca LaFleur --
The megacity / George Packer --
Aid, advice, and governance: ending poverty forever --
The eight commandments / The Economist --
Moving people rather than moving jobs? --
Should we globalize labor too? / Jason DeParle --
12. Environmental issues and the global commons --
The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin --
The problem of collective action --
Global problems and local concerns / The World Bank --
Global warming, environmental degradation, and international conflict --
Terror in the weather forecast / Thomas Homer-Dixon --
Receding Aral Sea offers fertile ground for conflict / David Stern --
A global web of pollution and environmental devastation --
Huge dust plumes from China cause changes in climate / Robert Lee Hotz --
A corrupt timber trade / Peter S. Goodman and Peter Finn --
13. Immigrants, refugees, and diasporas: population movements across borders --
Crossing borders: international migration and national security / Fiona B. Adamson --
Political causes and effects of migration: poverty, misgovernment, and violence --
Europe's huddled masses / The Economist --
A massive migration / Sudarsan Raghavan --
Diasporas and international politics --
A world of exiles / The Economist --
pt. IV. The subjective dimension: identities and loyalties --
14. The clash of cultures and identities --
The clash of civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntington --
What clash of civilizations? / Amartya Sen --
Identity clashes in Europe --
Cartoon uproar exposes Muslim divide / Andrew Higgins --
New Russia: from class to ethnic struggle / Steven Lee Myers --
The new divide in world politics? The West versus the Islamic world --
Mutual incomprehension, mutual outrage / The Economist --
15. Gender and global politics --
Women, the State, and war: feminist incursions into world politics / Franke Wilmer --
Gender, human security, and national security --
Infanticide, abortion responsible for 60 million girls missing in Asia / Sherry Karabin --
A surplus of men, a deficit of peace / Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea Den Boer --
Women's rights as human rights: or as Western cultural imperialism? --
Yet another problem in the Middle East / The Economist.com --
Female genital mutilation on rise in Britain / MSNBC.com --
16. Globalization, localization, and politics --
The globalization index / A.T. Kearney, Inc., and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace --
English as the language of global education / Doreen Carvajal --
Soccer v. McWorld / Franklin Foer --
Managing the problems of a globalized world --
How globalization went bad / Steven Weber, [et al...] --
Paradoxes of globalization --
Loves Microsoft, hates America / Adam Davidson.