Part 1: Analyzing World Politics

Ch 1: World Politics: Analysis, Choice, and Constraint

Ch 2: Thinking about World Politics: Theory and Reality

Ch 3: Global Actors: States and Other Players on the World Stage

Ch 4: Power and Influence in Global Society: Relations between States

Ch 5: Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy

Ch 6: Decision Making: Rationality, Psychology, and Organizations

Part 2: Conflict and Cooperation

Ch 7: Why States and Other Actors Resort to Force

Ch 8: Security Dilemma: Armament and Disarmament

Ch 9: International Law

Ch 10: Global Order, Organization, and the United Nations

Part 3: International Political Economy

Ch 11: Interdependence and Economic Order

Ch 12: Regional Economic Integration and Globalization

Ch 13: Development and Underdevelopment: The North-South Gap

Part 4: Challenges for the Future

Ch 14: Global Commons: Environmental Threats and Responses

Ch 15: Which Global Future?