The Global Agenda: Issues and Perspectives

Part 1 Arms and influence: power, capability and influence in international politics force or trade - the costs and benefits of two paths to global influence the future of military power - the continuing utility of force the obsolescence of major war nuclear myths and political realities war in the post-Cold War era - structural perspectives on the causes of war what should be done with nuclear arsenals? Disarmament and weapons proliferation controlling the global trade in arms disorder in the new world order? The future of terrorism sanctions - a look at the record the changing nature of world power. Part 2 Discord and collaboration: models of international relations - realist and neoliberal perspectives on conflict and co-operation Cold War, chill peace - prospects for world order and disorder great-power relations paths to peace in the 21st century southern perspectives on world order the coming clash of civilizations - or the West against the rest Islam and liberal democracy - Muslim perceptions and Western reactions human rights in the new world order out of the cold - humanitarian intervention in the 1990s.