A major new introduction, written by a team of leading experts, to the key issues that shape the nature of the international system and global politics in the 21st Century. INDICE: Introduction: Issues in Twenty-First World Politics; Mark Beeson and Nick Bisley PART I: EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM Globalization andStatehood; Philip G. Cerny Regions and Regionalism in World Politics; Shaun Breslin Climate Change and the Politics of the Global Environment; Neil Carter Global Power Shift: The Decline of the West and the Rise of the Rest?; Nick Bisley There are alternatives: The Washington consensus versus state capitalism;Mark Beeson Democracy and Democratization; William Case Nationalism and Ethnicity in World Politics; Richard W. Mansbach PART II: CONFLICT, CRISES AND AUTHORITY Old and New Wars; Matt Killingsworth Transnational Terrorism; Andrew Phillips Peace Operations and Humanitarian Intervention; Alex J. Bellamy The New World of Security; Mely Cabellero-Anthony Gender Matters; La ura J. Shepherd Inequality and Underdevelopment in World Politics; Ray Kiely Energy Security and World Politics; Frank Umbach Global Financial Crises; Timothy J. Sinclair Governing the Global Economy; Richard Higgott Population Movement and its Impacton World Politics; Anne Hammerstad
- ISBN: 978-0-230-59452-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés