International Relations

by Stephen McGlinchey

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This book is designed to be a ‘Day 0' introduction to International Relations. As a beginner's guide, it has been structured to condense the most important information into the smallest space and present that information in the most accessible way. The chapters offer a broad sweep of the basic components of International Relations and the key contemporary issues that concern the discipline.

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Publisher
E-International Relations
Subjects
Social Sciences, Sociology
Licence
CC BY-SA, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. TitlePage
  4. InfoPage
  5. TitlePage
  6. Contributors
  7. Table of Contents
  8. InfoPage
  9. Licensing
  10. Getting Started
  11. Table of Contents
  12. 1: The Making of the Modern World
  13. 1.1: The Rise of the Sovereign State
  14. 1.2: The Westphalian System
  15. 1.3: An Inter-national System
  16. 1.4: The Europeans and the Rest of the World
  17. 1.5: Conclusion
  18. 2: Diplomacy
  19. 2.1: What Is Diplomacy?
  20. 2.2: Regulating Nuclear Weapons
  21. 2.3: The US and Iran
  22. 2.4: Conclusion
  23. 3: One World, Many Actors
  24. 3.1: Levels of Analysis
  25. 3.2: How the Level of Analysis Determines Our Findings
  26. 3.3: Levels of Analysis and the Changing Ambitions of a Discipline
  27. 3.4: IR as Arena or Process?
  28. 3.5: Beyond the State
  29. 3.6: IR and You
  30. 4: International Relations Theory
  31. 4.1: Traditional Theories
  32. 4.2: The Middle Ground
  33. 4.3: Critical Theories
  34. 4.4: Theory in Practice- Examining the United Nations
  35. 4.5: Conclusion
  36. 5: International Law
  37. 5.1: What Law Is International Law?
  38. 5.2: The Contents of International Law
  39. 5.3: From ‘No World Government’ to Global Governance
  40. 5.4: The Functioning of International Law
  41. 5.5: Conclusion
  42. 6: International Organizations
  43. 6.1: International Governmental Organisations
  44. 6.2: International Non-Governmental Organisations and Hybrid International Organisations
  45. 6.3: How International Organisations Shape Our World
  46. 6.4: Conclusion
  47. 7: Global Civil Society
  48. 7.1: Conditions for Transnational Activism
  49. 7.2: Global Civil Society as a Response to Transnational Exclusion
  50. 7.3: Values Promotion and Creating Change
  51. 7.4: Contested Legitimacy
  52. 7.5: The Case of the Moratorium on the Death Penalty
  53. 7.6: Conclusion
  54. 8: Global Political Economy
  55. 8.1: Liberal Approaches
  56. 8.2: Individual Actors
  57. 8.3: The State and the Multinational Corporation
  58. 8.4: Towards Global Economic Governance?
  59. 8.5: Conclusion
  60. 9: Religion and Culture
  61. 9.1: Elements of Religion
  62. 9.2: Elements of Culture
  63. 9.3: Religion and Culture- Difference and Similarity
  64. 9.4: Can We All Live Together?
  65. 9.5: Conclusion
  66. 10: Global Poverty and Wealth
  67. 10.1: Defining Poverty
  68. 10.2: Measuring and Reducing Poverty
  69. 10.3: Globalisation and the Wealth–Poverty Dynamic
  70. 10.4: Globalization and Neoliberalism
  71. 10.5: Conclusion
  72. 11: Protecting People
  73. 11.1: Key Positions
  74. 11.2: Emerging Norms of Human Protection
  75. 11.3: Problems and Challenges
  76. 11.4: Conclusion
  77. 12: Connectivity, Communications and Technology
  78. 12.1: The Internet
  79. 12.2: Digital Commerce
  80. 12.3: Digital Communications
  81. 12.4: Reach
  82. 12.5: Affordability
  83. 12.6: Reliance
  84. 12.7: Control
  85. 12.8: Conclusion
  86. 13: Voices of the People
  87. 13.1: Change in a Globalising World
  88. 13.2: ‘Colour’ and ‘Umbrella’ Revolutions
  89. 13.3: The Occupy Movement
  90. 13.4: The Arab Spring
  91. 13.5: Conclusion
  92. 14: Transnational Terrorism
  93. 14.1: What Is Transnational Terrorism?
  94. 14.2: Motivation and Goals
  95. 14.3: Activities
  96. 14.4: Organisation and Resources
  97. 14.5: Countering Transnational Terrorism
  98. 14.6: Conclusion
  99. 15: The Environment
  100. 15.1: The Relationship Between International Relations and Environmental Problems
  101. 15.2: Common Pool Resource Theory
  102. 15.3: The Global Environment as a Global Commons
  103. 15.4: Global Rights and Domestic Environmental Politics and Policy
  104. 15.5: Do We Need a Global Environmental Organisation?
  105. 15.6: Conclusion
  106. 16: Feeding the World
  107. 16.1: The Bottom-Up Approach
  108. 16.2: Sudden Food Shortages and the Disenfranchised Citizen
  109. 16.3: Chronic Hunger and the Civic Participant
  110. 16.4: Adulterated Milk and the Protective Parent
  111. 16.5: Childhood Obesity and the Bad Mother
  112. 16.6: Low Wages and the Deserving Worker
  113. 16.7: Land Dispossession and the Traditional Peasant
  114. 16.8: Conclusion
  115. 17: Managing Global Security Beyond ‘Pax Americana’
  116. 17.1: From Isolation to Global Superpower
  117. 17.2: On Global Watch
  118. 17.3: A World Full of Troubles
  119. 17.4: A World Full of Free Riders?
  120. 17.5: Finding an Alternative World Order
  121. 17.6: Conclusion
  122. 18: Crossings and Candles
  123. 18.1: The Four-Minute Mile
  124. 18.2: Servant of Empire
  125. 18.3: World-Making
  126. 18.4: Industrial IR
  127. 18.5: Talk, Text, Technology
  128. 18.6: Conclusion
  129. Back Matter
  130. Index
  131. References
  132. Index
  133. Glossary
  134. Detailed Licensing