Essential Readings in World Politics Contents
(Titles in bold are new to this edition.)
- Chapter 1: Approaches
- Jack Snyder, "One World, Rival Theories"
- Thucydides, "Melian Dialogue"
- Immanuel Kant, "To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch"
- Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism (excerpt)
- Chapter 2: History
- Woodrow Wilson, "The Fourteen Points"
- George Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct"
- Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?"
- George Bush, "The National Security Strategy of the United States"
- Chapter 3: Contending Perspectives
- Hans Morgenthau, "A Realist Theory"
- John Mearsheimer, "Anarchy and Struggle for Power"
- Michael W. Doyle, "Liberalism and World Politics"
- Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy Is What States Make of It"
- J. Ann Tickner, "Man, the State, and War"
- Chapter 4: The International System
- Hedley Bull, "Does Order Exist in World Politics?"
- Hans Morgenthau, "The Balance of Power"
- Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System"
- William R. Thompson, "Systemic Leadership, Evolutionary Processes, and International Relations Theory: The Unipolarity Question"
- Anthony Padgen, "Imperialism, Liberalism, and the Quest for Perpetual Peace"
- Chapter 5: The State
- Stephen D. Krasner, "Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States"
- Anne-Marie Slaughter, "The Real New World Order"
- Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations"
- Edward Said, "The Clash of Ignorance"
- Yahra Sadowski, "Political Islam: Asking the Wrong Questions?"
- Chapter 6: The Individual
- Robert Jervis, "Hypotheses on Misperception"
- John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday (excerpt)
- Chapter 7: IGOs, NGOs, and International Law
- Eric Voeten, "The Political Origins of the UN Security Council's Ability to Legitimize the Use of Force"
- Andrew Moravcsik, "A Too Perfect Union? Why Europe Said 'No'"
- Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, "Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics"
- Samantha Power, "Bystanders to Genocide"
- Henry Kissinger, "The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction"
- Ken Roth, "The Case for Universal Jurisdiction"
- John Mearsheimer, "The False Promise of International Institutions"
- Chapter 8: War and Strife
- Carl von Clausewitz, "War as an Instrument of Policy"
- Thomas C. Schelling, "The Diplomacy of Violence"
- Robert Jervis, "Cooperation under the Security Dilemma"
- Scott Sagan, "How to Keep the Bomb From Iran"
- Ben Valentino, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (excerpt)
- Barry Posen, "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict"
- Robert Pape, "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism"
- Max Abrahms, "Why Terrorism Does Not Work"
- Michael L. Ross, "Oil, Drugs, and Diamonds: The Varying Roles of Natural Resources in Civil War"
- Carol Cohn and Sara Ruddick, "A Feminist Ethical Perspective on Weapons of Mass Destruction"
- Chapter 9: International Political Economy
- Robert Gilpin, The Nature of Political Economy"
- Helen V. Milner, "Globalization, Development, and International Institutions: Normative and Positive Perspectives"
- Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works (excerpt)
- Moises Naim, "The Five Wars of Globalization"
- Thomas Friedman, "The First Law of Petropolitics"
- Valentine M. Moghadam, "Female Labor, Regional Crises, and Feminist Responses"
- Chapter 10: Globalization and Globalizing Issues
- William Easterly, "The Healers: Triumph and Tragedy"
- Laurie Garrett, "The Next Pandemic?"
- Amartya Sen, "Universal Truths"
- Michael Ignatieff, "The Attack on Human Rights"
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