"Global Politics helps students understand the historical backdrop for international relations and uses research and theory to bring events into sharper focus. The Seventh Edition includes a boxed policy feature and coverage of the impact of feminist and postmodernist theory an the international relations field.

Global politics

Ray, James Lee

Houghton/Mifflin

This popular text discusses the major theories of international relations and provides students with the historical background to understand global politics. Juliet Kaarbo brings the text fully up-to-date with coverage of contemporary issues such as international conflict, economic alliances, and terrorism and global security. A five part organization--theory and history; states and foreign policy; security relations, economic relations; and global challenges--focuses on the most urgent topics in international relations and global politics.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

"Global Politics helps students understand the historical backdrop for international relations and uses research and theory to bring events into sharper focus. The Seventh Edition includes a boxed policy feature and coverage of the impact of feminist and postmodernist theory an the international relations field.

Global Politics

Houghton Mifflin School

Three major emphasis are expressed - 1) Provides a basic understanding of the history of the international system; explains current issues and crises in the global political system that are likely to have the greatest impact on its future, and finally discusses the possibility of discovering patterns in the foreign policies of states, the behavior of individual leaders, multinational corporations, and international organizations as well as the operation of the global political system. Also includes a chapter on transnational actors, including multinational corporations and terrorism. Complete coverage of the fall fo the Soviet Union. Expanded coverage of gender and of the role of women in economic and political development. New coverage on the politics of the internet and the place of electronic communication in international events.

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

American Foreign Policy And Political Ambition

SAGE CQ Press

The term "1992 Project" refers to the portion of the 1987 Single European Act that commits the European Community to the completion of a single integrated market by 1992. The project has brought about a dramatic revival of interest in the EC and this volume is a product of that revival. It provides evaluations and estimates of the future of the integration process and of the EC itself. The contributors share two broad themes. The first is a view of the integration process as a multilevel game. The second is consideration of the consequences of that process.

The 1992 Project and the Future of Integration in Europe

Business & Money

Smith, Dale L.

Economics

Routledge

Democracy and International Conflict: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition (Studies in International Relations)

In Democracy and International Conflict James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Arguing that advocates of the democratic peace proposition have not adequately evaluated the impact of regime transition on democratization, Ray reviews every regime transition of the past 170 years and traces the extent to which democracy has prevailed in the global political system since 1825. His analysis reveals the important roles played by the international environment and by domestic factors in determining global movements toward or away from democracy. Ray also provides a simple, precise, and operational definition of democracy that serves as a basis for addressing the controversy surrounding the issue of whether democratic states have ever waged war against one another. He concludes that it is possible to defend the assertion that there has never been an international war between democratic states. Finally, Ray contends that because the number of wars eliminated by democracy's pacifying effect has been small, scholars must supplement quantitative analysis of a great number of cases with evidence generated by the intensive study of individual cases. He examines the relationship between these two types of analyses and demonstrates how they may be integrated to exploit their complementary virtues.

History

World

Univ of South Carolina Pr

In Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Ray acknowledges that despite persuasive theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in favor of this idea, the democratic peace proposition is susceptible to attack on three points: the statistical rarity of both international wars and democracies; the difficulty in defining democracy; and the vulnerability of democratic regimes. To confront these criticisms, Ray offers a systematic analysis of regime transitions and a workable definition of democracy as well as careful scrutiny of cases in which democracies averted international conflict.

University of South Carolina Press

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Global politics

Global politics

Global Politics

Global Politics

Global politics

American Foreign Policy And Political Ambition

The 1992 Project and the Future of Integration in Europe

The 1992 Project and the Future of Integration in Europe

Democracy and International Conflict: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition (Studies in International Relations)

Democracy and International Conflict: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition (Studies in International Relations)