International Politics on the World Stage Brief 8th Edition Rourke Test Bank

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0073378992
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0073378992
• Author:  John T. Rourke, Mark A. Boyer

This concise text provides students and instructors with a comprehensive overview of world politics, inviting them in a straightforward and accessible way to explore international relations and its new challenges. A hallmark of the text is the authors’ position that politics affect the lives of all of us, and that the individual can have an impact, whether small or large, by being politically aware and by taking action. The eighth edition includes an enhanced art program with 7 more charts and analyses and updates of currents including economic trends, possibilities of a new direction in U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration, global environment issues and much more.

Table of contents:

• Foreword / Robert O. Keohane
• 1. Is there an enduring logic of conflict in world politics?
• What is international politics?
• The Peloponnesian War
• Ethical questions and international politics.
• 2. Explaining conflict and cooperation : tools and techniques of the trade
• Key concepts
• Levels of analysis
• Paradigms nd theories
• Counterfactuals and “virtual history.”
• 3. From Westphalia to World War I
• Managing great power conflict : balance and concert
• The origins of World War I.
• 4. The failure of collective security and World War II
• The rise and fall of collective security
• The origins of World War II.
• 5. The Cold War
• Deterrence and containment
• Three approaches to the Cold War
• Roosevelt’s policies
• Stalin’s policies
• Phases of the conflict
• Inevitability?
• Levels of analysis
• U.S. and Soviet goals in the Cold War
• Containment
• The Vietnam War
• The rest of the Cold War
• The end of the Cold War
• The role of nuclear weapons.
• 6. Post-Cold War conflict and cooperation
• Managing conflict
• International law and organization
• Intrastate conflict
• Interstate conflict.
• 7. Globalization and interdependence
• The dimensions of globalization
• The concept of interdependence
• The politics of oil.
• The information revolution and transnational actors
• Power and the information revolution
• Transnational actors
• Conclusions.
• 9. What can we expect in the future?
• Alternative visions
• A new world order?
• Thinking about the future.

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