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Global Politics : A New Introduction
Publisher :
Routledge
Published Date : 2009/01
Binding : Paperback
ISBN : 9780415431316
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Book Description
Source： ENG
Place of Publication： Great Britain
Textual Format： Textbooks,Lower Level
Academic Level： Undergraduate
Place of Publication： Great Britain
Textual Format： Textbooks,Lower Level
Academic Level： Undergraduate
Table of Contents
List of figures xiii
List of boxes xiv
Notes on contributors xxvii
Teaching with Global Politics: A New xxxii
Introduction
Acknowledgements xxxviii
Introduction 1 (21)
Jenny Edkins
Maja Zehfuss
What does this introduction to global 1 (3)
politics do?
How do we use illustrative examples? 4 (8)
What sorts of responses might there be? 12 (4)
What assumptions do we start from? 16 (6)
Conclusion 20 (2)
How do we begin to think about the world? 22 (23)
Vironique Pin-Fat
Thinking and language 22 (2)
Thinking about torture: the ticking bomb 24 (8)
scenario
Thinking about ethics: two 32 (4)
Thinking about thinking 36 (9)
Conclusion 42 (3)
What happens if we don't think in human 45 (25)
terms?
Simon Dalby
From environment to biosphere 45 (3)
Climate change 48 (9)
How do we frame the issue in terms of 57 (5)
global politics?
Challenging carboniferous capitalism 62 (8)
Conclusion 66 (4)
Who do we think we are? 70 (27)
Annick T. R. Wibben
Narratives and politics 70 (4)
The US feminist movement 74 (8)
How can we conceptualize identity? 82 (7)
Do we need to identify with a group? 89 (8)
Conclusion 93 (4)
How do religious beliefs affect politics? 97 (26)
Peter Mandaville
The role of religion today 97 (4)
Islamic states and movements 101 (10)
Do religion and politics mix? 111 (4)
Culture, fundamentalism and religious 115 (8)
identities
Conclusion 119 (4)
Why do we obey? 123 (24)
Jenny Edkins
Obedience, resistance and force 123 (3)
The revolutions of 1989 126 (7)
Authority and legitimacy 133 (6)
Thinking about power 139 (8)
Conclusion 143 (4)
How do we find out what's going on in the 147 (23)
world?
Debbie Lisle
The mediation of information 147 (3)
Media bias: representations of war 150 (6)
Freedom vs control: the media and power 156 (6)
How to read the media 162 (8)
Conclusion 166 (4)
Why is people's movement restricted? 170 (22)
Roxanne Lynn Doty
Border crossings 170 (3)
The US--Mexico border and the immigration 173 (7)
crisis
Ideas of states and citizenship 180 (3)
Cultural racism 183 (9)
Conclusion 187 (5)
Why is the world divided territorially? 192 (28)
Stuart Elden
Forms of political and geographical 192 (7)
organisation
The development of the European 199 (6)
territorial state
The emergence of territory 205 (5)
The future of the territorial state 210 (10)
Conclusion 215 (5)
How does the nation-state work? 220 (24)
Michael J. Shapiro
States, nations and allegiance 220 (3)
Worlds of unease within the nation-state 223 (7)
Stories of coherent nationhood 230 (4)
An alternative political imaginary 234 (10)
Conclusion 239 (5)
Do colonialism and slavery belong to the 244 (27)
past?
Kate Manzo
Slavery: abolition and continuation 244 (5)
Colonialism and capitalist development in 249 (7)
Ivory Coast
The effects of adjustment: 256 (6)
deproletarianisation and modern slavery
Is today's world postcolonial or 262 (9)
neocolonial?
Conclusion 267 (4)
How is the world organized economically? 271 (23)
V. Spike Peterson
Economics from feudal markets to 271 (3)
industrialization
The global political economy and 274 (6)
increasing informalization
Explaining the global political economy 280 (6)
The hidden costs of neoliberalism 286 (8)
Conclusion 291 (3)
Why are some people better off than others? 294 (26)
Paul Cammack
Sources of inequality 294 (3)
Inequality in the age of neoliberal reform 297 (9)
Liberal and developmental perspectives on 306 (4)
inequality
Historical materialism and the expansion 310 (10)
of the global working class
Conclusion 315 (5)
How can we end poverty? 320 (24)
Mustapha Kamal Pasha
The global poor and campaigns to end 320 (3)
poverty
Modernization and microfinance in South 323 (6)
Asia
The neoliberal project and the export of 329 (6)
an ideology
Alternative visions of modernity 335 (9)
Conclusion 341 (3)
Why do some people think they know what is 344 (26)
good for others?
Naeem Inayatullah
Giving and receiving 344 (3)
God's purpose: early Christian incursions 347 (11)
History's progress: contemporary 358 (5)
interventions
Diagnosing the need for exclusive 363 (7)
knowledge
Conclusion 367 (3)
Why does politics turn to violence? 370 (27)
Joanna Bourke
Mass killing as a cultural phenomenon 370 (5)
Killing in wartime 375 (7)
Belligerent states 382 (4)
Language and memory 386 (11)
Conclusion 393 (4)
What makes the world dangerous? 397 (30)
Michael Dillon
Living dangerously 397 (4)
Network-centric warfare 401 (9)
Thinking in terms of strategy and security 410 (8)
Unknown unknowns 418 (9)
Conclusion 423 (4)
What can we do to stop people harming 427 (27)
others?
Anne Orford
Intervening for humanity? 427 (3)
Saving Timor-Leste 430 (8)
Law and the exceptional 438 (6)
Legality, legitimacy and the politics of 444 (10)
intervention
Conclusion 450 (4)
Can we move beyond conflict? 454 (29)
Roland Bleiker
Dealing with seemingly intractable 454 (2)
conflicts
The conflict in Korea 456 (9)
Confrontation and engagement: two 465 (8)
approaches to conflict
Dealing with antagonism 473 (10)
Conclusion 478 (5)
Conclusion: what can we do to change the 483 (19)
world?
Maja Zehfuss
Changing what's wrong with the world 483 (4)
The Iraq War 487 (3)
No right way forward 490 (3)
Change and complicity 493 (9)
Conclusion 499 (3)
Index 502
"Global Politicsprovides a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and theories and also to develop a critical and inquiring perspective. This book examines the most significant issues in global politics - from war, peacebuilding, terrorism, security and authority to poverty, development, postcolonialism, human rights, gender, inequality, ethnicity and what we can do to change the world. Each chapter is written to a common template which is ideal for teaching and learning and features a key question, an illustrative example, general responses and larger questions.This book integrates theory and practice throughout the text, by presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies. It draws on theoretical perspectives from a broad range of disciplines including international relations, political theory, postcolonial studies, sociology, geography, peace studies, development.It encourages students and teachers to engage critically with the theoretical questions raised by issues in world politics.It is extensively illustrated throughout with 169 maps, photos, figures and cartoons as well as extensive pedagogic features to further learning, including a support website with additional podcast interviews with contributors, weblinks and downloadable maps. It features an international line-up of leading scholars in international relations and political theory. "Global Politics: A New Introduction" is an original, groundbreaking, engaged and intellectually stimulating textbook for core courses on world politics, international politics and international relations.
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