Title:
Global politics
Author:
Heywood, Andrew, author.
ISBN:
9781137349262
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd edition.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 590 pages : colour illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Series:
Palgrave foundations
General Note:
Previous edition: 2011.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introducing Global Politics -- From `The International' To `The Global'? -- From state-centrism to the mixed-actor model? -- From independence to interdependence? -- From the domestic/international divide to transnationalism? -- From international anarchy to global governance? -- Globalization and its Implications -- Explaining globalization -- Globalization: myth or reality? -- Lenses On Global Politics -- Mainstream perspectives -- Critical perspectives -- Continuity And Change In Global Politics -- Power -- Security -- Justice -- Using This Book -- 2.Historical Context -- Making Of The Modern World -- From ancient to modern -- Rise of the West -- Age of imperialism -- The `Short' Twentieth Century: 1914--90 -- Origins of World War I -- Road to World War II -- End of Empires -- Rise and fall of the Cold War -- The World Since 1990 -- A `new world order'? -- 9/11 and the `war on terror' -- Shifting balances within the global economy --
Contents note continued: 3.Theories of Global Politics -- What Is Theory? -- Realism -- State egoism and conflict -- Statecraft and the national interest -- Anarchy and its implications -- Polarity, stability and the balance of power -- Assessing realism -- Liberalism -- Interdependence liberalism -- Republican liberalism -- Liberal institutionalism -- Assessing liberalism -- Critical Approaches -- Marxism, neo-Marxism and critical theory -- Constructivism -- Poststructuralism -- Feminism -- Green politics -- Postcolonialism -- Thinking Globally -- Challenge of interconnectedness -- Cosmopolitanism -- 4.The Economy in a Global Age -- Capitalism and Neoliberalism -- Capitalisms of the world -- Triumph of neoliberalism -- Implications of neoliberalism -- Economic Globalization -- Causes of economic globalization -- How globalized is economic life? -- Global Capitalism In Crisis -- Explaining booms and slumps -- Lessons of the Great Crash -- Modern crises and `contagions' --
Contents note continued: The 2007--09 global financial crisis and its implications -- 5.The State and Foreign Policy in a Global Age -- States and Statehood in Flux -- States and sovereignty -- The state and globalization -- State transformation -- Return of the state -- National Government to Multi-Level Governance -- From government to governance -- Multi-level governance -- Foreign Policy -- End of foreign policy? -- How decisions are made -- 6.Society in a Global Age -- Social Connectedness: Thick to Thin? -- From industrialization to post-industrialism -- New technology and `information society' -- Risk, uncertainty and insecurity -- Globalization, Consumerism And The Individual -- Social and cultural implications of globalization -- Consumerism goes global -- Rise of individualism -- Global Civil Society -- Explaining global civil society -- Transnational social movements and NGOs -- Globalization from below? -- 7.The Nation in a Global Age --
Contents note continued: Nationalism And World Politics -- Making sense of nationalism -- A world of nation-states -- Nationalism, war and conflict -- Nations In An Age Of Migration -- A world on the move -- Transnational communities and diasporas -- Economic impact of migration -- Nationalism Revived -- National self-assertion in the post-Cold War period -- Rise of cultural and ethnic nationalism -- Anti-globalization nationalism -- 8.Identity, Culture and Challenges to the West -- Rise Of Identity Politics -- Westernization as modernization -- Politics of collective identity -- Multiculturalism and hybridity -- Is cultural conflict inevitable? -- Religious Revivalism -- Religion and politics -- The fundamentalist upsurge -- Challenges To The West -- Postcolonialism -- Asian values -- Islam and the West -- 9.Power and Twenty-First-Century World Order -- Power And Global Politics -- Power as capability -- Relational power and structural power -- Changing nature of power --
Contents note continued: Post-Cold War Global Order -- End of Cold War bipolarity -- The `new world order' and its fate -- Us Hegemony And Global Order -- Rise to hegemony -- The `war on terror' and beyond -- Benevolent or malign hegemony? -- A Multipolar Global Order? -- Rise of multipolarity -- Multipolar order or disorder? -- 10.War and Peace -- Nature Of War -- Types of war -- Why do wars occur? -- War as a continuation of politics -- Changing Face Of War -- From `old' wars to `new' wars? -- `Postmodern' warfare -- Justifying War -- Realpolitik -- Just war theory -- Pacifism -- 11.Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament -- Nuclear Proliferation -- Nature of nuclear weapons -- Proliferation during the Cold War -- Proliferation in the post-Cold War era -- Nuclear Arms Control And Disarmament -- Arms control and anti-proliferation strategies -- A world free of nuclear weapons? -- 12.Terrorism -- Understanding Terrorism -- Defining terrorism -- Rise of `new' terrorism? --
Contents note continued: Significance Of Terrorism -- Terrorism goes global -- Catastrophic terrorism -- Countering Terrorism -- Strengthening state security -- Military repression -- Political deals -- 13.Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention -- Human Rights -- Defining human rights -- Protecting human rights -- Challenging human rights -- Humanitarian Intervention -- Rise of humanitarian intervention -- Conditions for humanitarian intervention -- Does humanitarian intervention work? -- 14.International Law -- Nature Of International Law -- What is law? -- Sources of international law -- Why is international law obeyed? -- International Law In Flux -- From international law to world law? -- Developments in the laws of war -- International tribunals and the International Criminal Court -- 15.Poverty and Development -- Understanding Poverty And Development -- Defining and measuring poverty -- Development: competing visions -- A More Unequal World? --
Contents note continued: Making sense of global inequality -- Contours of global inequality -- Globalization, poverty and inequality -- Does global inequality matter? -- Development And The Politics Of Aid -- Structural adjustment programmes and beyond -- International aid and the development ethic -- Debt relief and fair trade -- 16.Global Environmental Issues -- The Rise Of Green Politics -- The environment as a global issue -- Green politics: reformism or radicalism? -- Climate Change -- Causes of climate change -- Consequences of climate change -- How should climate change be tackled? -- Why is international cooperation so difficult to achieve? -- Resource Security -- Resources, power and prosperity -- 17.Gender in Global Politics -- Feminism, Gender And Global Politics -- Varieties of feminism -- `Gender lenses' on global politics -- Gendering Global Politics -- Gendered states and gendered nations -- Gendering security, war and armed conflict --
Contents note continued: Gender, globalization and development -- 18.International Organization and the United Nations -- International Organization -- Rise of international organization -- Why are international organizations created -- The United Nations -- From the League to the UN -- Promoting peace and security -- Does UN peacekeeping work? -- Promoting economic and social development -- Future of the UN: challenges and reform -- 19.Global Governance and the Bretton Woods System -- Global Governance? -- What global governance is, and is not -- Global governance: myth or reality? -- Global Economic Governance: The Evolution Of The Bretton Woods System -- Making of the Bretton Woods system -- Fate of the Bretton Woods system -- Evaluating Global Economic Governance -- The International Monetary Fund -- The World Bank -- The World Trade Organization -- Reforming The Bretton Woods System -- Global economic governance and the 2007-09 crisis -- Obstacles to reform --
Contents note continued: 20.Regionalism and Global Politics -- Regions And Regionalism -- Nature of regionalism -- Why regionalism? -- Regionalism and globalization -- Regional integration outside Europe -- European Integration -- What is the EU? -- The EU and the world -- The EU in crisis? -- 21.Why Theory Matters -- The Importance Of Theory -- Uses of theory -- Which theory is best? -- Debating Theory -- Paradigms: enlightening or constraining? -- All in the mind? -- For some purpose? -- Between utopia and reality? -- 22.Images of the Global Future -- Images And Reality -- Contending Images Of The Global Future -- A borderless world? -- A world of democracies? -- Civilizations in conflict? -- A Chinese century? -- The growth of international community? -- The rise of the global South? -- The coming environmental catastrophe? -- Towards cosmopolitan democracy? -- An Unknowable Future?.