ABSTRACT

Perspectives on World Politics has been essential reading for students of international relations since the 1980s. This new edition fully updates this key text for the twenty-first century.

Focusing on the main competing analytical perspectives, the first and second editions established an authoritative sense of the conceptual tools used to study world politics, as well as reflecting on the major debates and responses to changes in the world arena.

This third edition builds on the success of its predecessors by presenting a fresh set of readings within this framework:

  • power and security
  • interdependence and globalization
  • dominance and resistance.

It also includes a much-expanded fourth section, ‘World Politics in Perspective’, which reflects the methodological and normative debates that have developed since publication of the previous edition.

This is an essential text for all students and scholars of politics and international relations.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

part |4 pages

Part I The politics of power and security

chapter 1|13 pages

1 States and statehood

chapter 1|10 pages

4 The nation-state in the global economy

chapter 1|9 pages

5 The spiral of international insecurity

chapter 1|11 pages

6 Strategies for survival

chapter 1|10 pages

8 Cooperation and international regimes

chapter 1|10 pages

9 Structural realism after the Cold War

chapter 1|13 pages

10 The stability of a unipolar world

chapter 1|11 pages

11 Law, strategy and history

part |4 pages

Part II The politics of interdependence and globalization

chapter 2|10 pages

8 Globalization and the evolution of rules

chapter 2|10 pages

10 Global civil society

chapter 2|8 pages

11 Cosmopolitanism: globalization tamed?

part |4 pages

Part III The politics of dominance and resistance

chapter 3|10 pages

1 A structural theory of imperialism

chapter 3|9 pages

5 Neoliberal cosmopolitanism

chapter 3|9 pages

7 The globalized war economy

chapter 3|8 pages

8 The new development-security terrain

chapter 3|10 pages

9 The imagined economies of globalization

chapter 3|10 pages

11 The dynamics of anti-globalization

part |4 pages

Part IV Perspectives and world politics