Global challenge
Subtitle: change and continuity in world politics
By: Lloyd Jensen, Lynn H. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Lynn H.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers; Wadsworth Publishing
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Fort Worth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: International relations.; World politics.
Description: [The authors'] goal in writing [the book] was to provide the student with a thorough introduction to the theoretical premises, historical setting, structure and process, and most important contemporary issues of world politics. A consistent theme is the extent to which the interstate system itself is being challenged by the changes we explore. [They] also chose to write a text that clearly intertwined empirical knowledge about the subject matter of world politics with the normative choices that confront decision makers and private citizens. -Pref.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives on world politics : Understanding world politics; Westphalia and the nation-state system; Contemporary challenges to the nation-state system; title: Explaining foreign policy : Objectives, beliefs and foreign policy; Foreign policy decision making; title: Conflict and the search for security : Capabilities and power; Role of military force; Explaining violence; Diplomacy and negotiation; title: World political economy : Development of a world economy; Economic statecraft and private economic activity; North-south economic relations; Resource and environmental challenges; title: Construction of a global society : Interdependence, transnational integration, and separatism; International law and global order; Human rights; World's structural framework for peace; title: Glossary.