World politics into the twenty-first century : unique contexts, enduring patterns

I. WORLD POLITICS AND CHOICES ABOUT LIFE. 1. The Central Questions: Whether and How People Live. 2. Competing Worldviews: Attempts to Answer the Central Questions. 3. Searching for Common Ground: The Politics of Strategic Choice. 4. States and the Politics of Foreign Policy. 5. Beyond the State: Interstate Law and Institutions and Non-State Actors. II. MILITARY CONFLICT AND THE QUEST FOR SECURITY. 6. War, Peace, and the Evolution of the State System in Europe. 7. The Interstate Security System Goes Global: Colonialism, the World Wars, and the Cold War. 8. Security and the Uses of Force Today. III. THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS. 9. International Political Economy from the Mercantilists into the 20th Century. 10. The Global Political Economy from World War I to the Present. 11. The Politics of Money, Trade, and Transnational Investment Today. IV. CONTESTED TRANSNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 12. Human Rights Amidst Global Diversity. 13. The Politics of International Environmental Issues. V. MAKING SENSE OF WORLD POLITICS TODAY AND TOMORROW. 14. Enduring Patterns in the Politics of Strategic Choice. 15. Getting to Choice: Preferences, Power, and Perception. 16. The Process of Strategic Choice and Interaction. 17. What Will the Future Hold?