The Global Political System

✍ Scribed by Fulvio Attina

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 2011
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 From International Relations to Global Politics: the Challenge
Understanding a smaller and more complicated world
From a realist base to a theoretical pluralism
2 Politics as Conflict in an Asymmetric World
Theoretical and methodological paradigms
Theories of politics as conflict
3 Politics as Cooperation in a World of Equals
Theories of politics as cooperation
Concluding remarks
4 Global Institutions and Government
Global political institutions
Organizational institutions
Hegemony or leadership in the governmental structure
5 Global Political Change
Long-term analysis: the evolution of global political institutions
Short-term analysis: cleavages, coalitions and competitions
6 Contemporary Global Politics
The first phase: US leadership and the Soviet challenge
The second phase: the destabilization of the world governmental structure
7 Reorganizing the State
Global economic integration
Relations between cultures
The reorganization of states
The European case
8 Changing International Security
The security of states as a public good
Security cooperation
Global terrorism
9 The New Global Policies
Environmental policy
Migration policy
Human rights policy and democracy
The control of transnational organized crime
Health protection policy
Conclusions
Conclusions
References
Index