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* NEW Challenges to State Power section. The readings selected clearly reflect the major debate in international relations about the role of the state and whether it is diminishing in the changing international environment. * NEW In Part IV, many new selections and new sections: States Versus Mobile Capital and New Actors and New Forces in World Politics. * NEW More than 40% of selections are new to this edition. * Introductions to each section set the intellectual context and survey the major points the articles will make. * This reader selects some of the best current scholars in the field, including policy makers, economists, traditional IR scholars, and some classics. The mixture and presentation of alternative perspectives provides students with challenging material in the language of the field.

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• I Anarchy and Its Consequences
• Power and Morality in Statecraft
• A Realist Theory of International Politics
• A Feminist Theory of International Politics
• Perspective on Anarchy
• The Anarchic Structure of World Politics
• Anarchy and the Struggle for Power
• Anarchy Is What States Make of It
• The Mitigation of Anarchy
• The Conditions for Cooperation in World Politics
• Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs
• Alliances: Balancing and Bandwagoning
• The Future of Diplomacy
• The Uses and Limits of International Law
• International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?
• The United Nations and International Security
• II The Uses Of Force
• The Political Uses of Force
• The Four Functions of Force
• The Diplomacy of Violence
• Coercive Diplomacy
• Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma
• The Utility of Force Today
• Complex Interdependence and the Role of Force
• The Fungibility of Force
• The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
• The Spread of Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear Instability in South Asia
• Nuclear Stability in South Asia
• III The International Political Economy
• Perspective on Political Economy
• The Nature of Political Economy
• Hegemony in the World Political Economy
• The Great Divide in the Global Village
• The Meaning of Globalization
• The Globalization of the International Economy
• The Changed World Economy
• Globalization and Governance
• The Pros and Cons of Globalization
• Trading in Illusions
• Why the Globalization Backlash is Stupid
• The Economics of Empire
• IV Contemporary World Politics
• War, and Terrorism
• The Era of Leading Power Peace
• The Clash of Civilizations?
• Al Qaeda The Protean Enemy
• The Uses of American Power
• Explaining the Bush Doctrine
• Americas Imperial Temptation
• The Unipolar Moment Revisited
• Unilateralists versus Multilateralists
• Civil Wars, and Nation Building
• The Causes of Failed States
• The Market for Civil War
• Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars
• The United States and Nation-Building
• The Environment and Climate Change
• The Tragedy of the Commons
• The Infinite Supply of Natural Resources
• Cornucopians and Neo-Malthusians
• What Makes Greenhouse Sense?
• New Actors and New Forces
• Transnational Activists Networks
• Human Rights in World Politics
• Five Wars of Globalization
• International Law: The Trials of Global Norms
• Europe's Floundering Fathers