Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation : An Introduction to Theory and History
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.; Welch, David A.Edition: 8th
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Pub. Date: 2010-02-17
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Author Biography
Written by renowned scholar and former policymaker Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and new co-author David A. Welch, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation is a brief and penetrating introduction to the study of world politics in an era of complex interdependence. This text deftly employs lessons from both theory and history to evaluate conflict and cooperation among global actors and to provide students with a resilient analytical framework. From twentieth and twenty-first century conflicts to global trade and finance, global governance, and the information revolution, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation, formerly titled Understanding International Conflicts, expands substantially on previous editions of this classic work to provide a lucid and thought-provoking survey of international relations today.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics? | p. 1 |
| What is International Politics? | p. 2 |
| Differing Views of Anarchic Politics | p. 4 |
| Building Blocks | p. 9 |
| The Peloponnesian War | p. 13 |
| A Short Version of a Long Story | p. 13 |
| Causes and Theories | p. 16 |
| Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future | p. 18 |
| Ethical Questions and International Politics | p. 21 |
| Limits on Ethics in International Relations | p. 22 |
| Three Views of the Role of Morality | p. 24 |
| Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars | p. 30 |
| Explaining Conflict and Cooperation: Tools and Techniques of the Trade | p. 33 |
| Key Concepts | p. 33 |
| States, Nations, and Nation-States | p. 34 |
| International Actors, Power, and Authority | p. 37 |
| International System and International Society | p. 42 |
| System Stability and Crisis Stability | p. 44 |
| The "National Interest" | p. 45 |
| Levels of Analysis | p. 46 |
| The Individual Level | p. 48 |
| The State Level | p. 51 |
| The System Level | p. 53 |
| Paradigms and Theories | p. 55 |
| Realism | p. 56 |
| Liberalism | p. 58 |
| Constructivism | p. 63 |
| Marxism | p. 64 |
| Counterfactuals and 'Virtual History' | p. 65 |
| Plausibility | p. 66 |
| Proximity in Time | p. 66 |
| Relation to Theory | p. 66 |
| Facts | p. 67 |
| From Westphalia to World War I | p. 71 |
| Managing Great Power Conflict: Balance and Concert | p. 74 |
| Balances as Distributions of Power | p. 75 |
| Balance of Power as Policy | p. 76 |
| Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems | p. 78 |
| Alliances | p. 80 |
| The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth-Century System | p. 81 |
| Chronologies: Europe | p. 84 |
| The Origins of World War I | p. 86 |
| Three Levels of Analysis | p. 87 |
| Was War Inevitable? | p. 92 |
| What Kind of War? | p. 95 |
| The Funnel of Choices | p. 98 |
| Lessons of History Again | p. 99 |
| Chronology: The Road To World War I | p. 100 |
| The Failure of Collective Security and World War II | p. 103 |
| The Rise and Fall of Collective Security | p. 103 |
| The League of Nations | p. 104 |
| The United States and the League of Nations | p. 106 |
| The Early Days of the League | p. 107 |
| The Manchurian Failure | p. 110 |
| The Ethiopian Debacle | p. 111 |
| The Origins of World War II | p. 112 |
| Hitler's War? | p. 112 |
| Hitler's Strategy | p. 114 |
| The Role of the Individual | p. 118 |
| Systemic and Domestic Causes | p. 119 |
| Was War Inevitable? | p. 120 |
| The Pacific War | p. 122 |
| Appeasement and Two Types of War | p. 126 |
| Chronology: Between The World Wars | p. 128 |
| The Cold War | p. 132 |
| Deterrence and Containment | p. 133 |
| Three Approaches to the Cold War | p. 134 |
| Roosevelt's Policies | p. 136 |
| Stalin's Policies | p. 137 |
| Phases of the Conflict | p. 138 |
| Inevitability? | p. 144 |
| Levels of Analysis | p. 145 |
| U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War | p. 147 |
| Containment | p. 148 |
| The Vietnam War | p. 149 |
| Motives, Means, and Consequences | p. 150 |
| Chronology: American Involvement in Vietnam (1954-1975) | p. 151 |
| The Rest of the Cold War | p. 155 |
| The End of the Cold War | p. 156 |
| The Role of Nuclear Weapons | p. 161 |
| Physics and Politics | p. 161 |
| Balance of Terror | p. 165 |
| Problems of Nuclear Deterrence | p. 166 |
| The Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 168 |
| Moral Issues | p. 170 |
| Chronology: The Cold War Years | p. 173 |
| Post-Cold War Conflict and Cooperation | p. 181 |
| Managing Conflict | p. 181 |
| International Law and Organization | p. 184 |
| Domestic Analogies | p. 185 |
| Predictability and Legitimacy | p. 187 |
| The United Nations: Collective Security and Peacekeeping | p. 188 |
| Intrastate Conflict | p. 194 |
| Intervention and Sovereignty | p. 196 |
| Defining Intervention | p. 197 |
| Judging Intervention | p. 199 |
| Exceptions to the Rule of Nonintervention | p. 200 |
| Problems of Self-Determination | p. 201 |
| Genocide and the "Responsibility to Protect" | p. 203 |
| Interstate Conflict | p. 205 |
| The Middle East | p. 206 |
| Arab-Israeli Conflict | p. 209 |
| Conflicts in the Persian Gulf, 1991 and 2003 | p. 217 |
| Chronology: Conflict In The Middle East | p. 222 |
| A Nuclear Iran? | p. 225 |
| Chronology: Iran's Nuclear Program | p. 226 |
| India and Pakistan | p. 228 |
| Chronology: The Kashmir Conflict | p. 230 |
| The Taiwan Strait | p. 231 |
| Chronology: The Taiwan Strait | p. 232 |
| North Korea | p. 233 |
| Chronology: North Korea | p. 235 |
| Globalization and Interdependence | p. 239 |
| The Dimensions of Globalization | p. 240 |
| What's New about Twenty-First-Century Globalization? | p. 242 |
| Political Reactions to Globalization | p. 244 |
| Power and Globalization | p. 245 |
| The Concept of Interdependence | p. 245 |
| Sources of Interdependence | p. 246 |
| Benefits of Interdependence | p. 247 |
| Costs of Interdependence | p. 249 |
| Symmetry of Interdependence | p. 251 |
| Leadership and Institutions in the World Economy | p. 253 |
| Realism and Complex Interdependence | p. 257 |
| The Politics of Oil | p. 259 |
| Oil as a Power Resource | p. 263 |
| The Information Revolution and Transnational Actors | p. 268 |
| Power and the Information Revolution | p. 268 |
| Lessons from the Past | p. 269 |
| A New World Politics? | p. 272 |
| Sovereignty and Control | p. 277 |
| Transnational Actors | p. 280 |
| Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) | p. 283 |
| The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence | p. 286 |
| Transnational Terrorism and the "War on Terror" | p. 289 |
| Conclusions | p. 292 |
| What Can We Expect in the Future? | p. 296 |
| Alternative Visions | p. 296 |
| The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations? | p. 301 |
| Technology and the Diffusion of Power | p. 303 |
| Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction | p. 305 |
| Transnational Challenges to Security | p. 307 |
| A New World Order? | p. 316 |
| Future Configurations of Power | p. 317 |
| The Prison of Old Concepts | p. 320 |
| The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order | p. 321 |
| Thinking About the Future | p. 324 |
| Glossary | p. 327 |
| Credits | p. 331 |
| Index | p. 332 |
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