Individual team objectives -- History and geography -- Resource factors -- Diplomacy -- Trade -- Conflict -- Alliance politics -- Territorial disputes -- Nuclear proliferation -- Ethnic conflict -- Free trade vs. protectionism -- Natural resource politics -- Currency crises -- F…
Elshtain (social and political ethics, U. of Chicago) makes a case for the use of military force to combat terrorism. Aimed at political scientists and the interested general reader, the text begins with an analysis of the meanings embedded in the different ways in which the ter…
Elshtain (social and political ethics, U. of Chicago) makes a case for the use of military force to combat terrorism. Aimed at political scientists and the interested general reader, the text begins with an analysis of the meanings embedded in the different ways in which the ter…
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Early 20th Century International, Imperial and anti-Imperial Cooperation -- 3. The First World War -- 4. The Production of International Knowledge -- 5. Empire and its Opponents -- 6. International and Imperial Institutio…
"This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality. It shows that technological innovations and decisive developments since 1945 - from the nuclear revolution to anthropogenic climate …
In May of 1919, women from around the world gathered in Zurich, Switzerland, and proclaimed, "We dedicate ourselves to peace!" Just months after the end of World War I, the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom--a group led by American progressive Jane Addams and com…
The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration of World War II, its conclusion and the construction of a post-war order that was to culminate in the Cold War. Andrew Baker here examines the expansion of US political and economic power and hegemony during this period, and the extent…
"This book offers the first authoritative guide to assumptions about time in theories of contemporary world politics. It demonstrates how predominant theories of the international or global 'present' are affected by temporal assumptions, grounded in western political thought, th…
