FOREWORD PREFACE CHAPTER 1 Is THERE AN ENDURING LOGIC OF CONFLICT IN WORLD POLITICS? What Is International Politics? Two Views of Anarchic Politics Building Blocks The Peloponnesian War A Short Version of a Long Story Causes and Theories Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future Ethical Questions and International Politics Limits on Ethics in International Relations Three Views of the Role of Morality Chronology： Peloponnesian Wars Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings CHAPTER 2 ORIGINS OF THE GREAT TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONFLICTS International Systems and Levels of Causation Levels of Analysis Systems： Structure and Process Revolutionary and Moderate Goals and Instruments The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth Century System A Modern Sequel Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy Liberalism Revived Liberal Democracy and War Definition of National Interests Variations in Foreign Policies Counterfactuals Plausibility Proximity in Time Relation to Theory Facts Chronologies： Europe Study Questions Notes Selected Readings further Readings CHAPTER 3 BALANCE OF POWER AND WORLD WAR I Balance of Power Power Balances as Distributions of Power Balance of Power as Policy Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems Alliances The Origins of World War I Three Levels of Analysis Was War Inevitable? What Kind of War? The Funnel of Choices Lessons of History Again Chronology：The Road to World War I Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings CHAPTER 4 THE FAILURE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND WORLD WARII The Rise and Fall of Collective Security The League of Nations The United States and the League of Nations The Early Days of the League The Manchurian Failure The Ethiopian Debacle The Origins of World War II Hitler’s War? Hitlers Strategy The Role of the Individual Systemic and Domestic Causes Was War Inevitable? The Pacific War Appeasement and Two Types of War Chronology：Between the World Wars Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings CHAPTER5 THE COLD WAR Deterrence and Containment Three Approaches to the Cold War Roosevelts Policies Stalins Policies Phases of the Conflict Inevitability? Levels of Analysis U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War Containment The Rest of the Cold War The End of the Cold War The Role of Nuclear Weapons Physics and Politics Balance of Terror Problems of Nuclear Deterrence The Cuban Missile Crisis Moral Issues Chronology： The Cold War Years Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings CHAPTER 6 INTERVENTION， INSTITUTIONS， AND REGIONALAND ETHNIC CONFLICTSEthnic Conflicts Intervention and Sovereignty Defining Intervention Sovereignty Judging Intervention Exceptions to the Rule Problems of Self-Determination Motives， Means， and Consequences International Law and Organization Domestic Analogies Predictability and Legitimacy The Suez Canal Crisis U.N. Peacekeeping and Collective Security Conflicts in the Middle East The Questions of Nationalism The Arab-Israeli Conflicts The 1991 Gulf War and Its Aftermath Chronology： The Arab-Israeli Conflict Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings CHAPTER 7 GLOBALIZATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE The Dimensions of Globalization Whats New About Twenty-first Century Globalization? Political Reactions to Globalization Economic Interdependence and Conflict The Concept of Interdependence Sources of Interdependence Benefits of Interdependence Costs of Interdependence Symmetry of Interdependence Leadership in the World Economy Realism and Complex Interdependence The Politics of Oil Oil as a Power Resource Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings CHAPTER 8 THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION， TRANSNATIONAL ACTORS， AND THE DIFFUSION OF POWER Power and the Information Revolution Lessons from the Past A New World Politics? Sovereignty and Control Transnational Actors Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) Transnational Terrorism Information and Power Among States The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence The Information Revolution and Democratization Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings CHAPTER 9 A NEW WORLD ORDER? Alternative Designs for the Future The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations? Technology and the Diffusion of Power Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Transnational Threats and the Concept of Security A New World Order? Future Configurations of Power The Prison of Old Concepts The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order Thinking About the Future Study Questions Notes Selected Readings Further Readings GLOSSARY CREDITS INDEX
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