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Tables of Contents for World Politics 00/01
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
World Map
ii
To the Reader
vi
Topic Guide
4
2
Selected World Wide Web Sites
6
2
UNIT 1 Alternative Visions of World Politics into the Twenty-First Century
Overview
8
2
Dueling Globalizations: A Debate between Thomas L. Friedman and Ignacio Ramonet
10
11
Thomas L. Friedman
Ignacio Ramonet
The Future of Civil Conflict
21
8
Shashi Tharoor
The New Interventionism and the Third World
29
7
Richard Falk
UNIT 2 International Political Economy
Overview
34
2
International Political Economy: Beyond Hegemonic Stability
36
6
Helen V. Milner
Toward a New International Economic Order
42
5
Thomas I. Palley
Capitalism's Last Chance?
47
7
George Soros
Trade and the Developing World: A New Agenda
54
6
Joseph F. Stiglitz
Helping the World's Poorest
60
6
Jeffrey Sachs
UNIT 3 The Politics of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Overview
64
2
Against Nuclear Apartheid
66
4
Jaswant Singh
Russia: The Nuclear Menace Within
70
5
Ronald E. Powaski
Troubled Treaties: Is the NPT Tottering?
75
3
Rebecca Johnson
Bombs, Gas and Microbes: The Desperate Efforts to Block the Road to Doomsday, The Economist, June 6, 1998.
78
6
UNIT 4 North America
Overview
82
2
The United States
Life after Pax Americana
84
5
Charles A. Kupchan
Ham-Fisted Hegemon: The Clinton Administration and Russia
89
7
Anatol Lieven
Rethinking United States Policy toward the Muslim World
96
6
Augustus Richard Norton
Americans and the World: A Survey at Century's End
102
9
John E. Rielly
How Many Deaths Are Acceptable? A Surprising Answer
111
5
Peter D. Feaver
Christopher Gelpi
Canada
No-First-Use for NATO? Policy Options, March 1999.
116
5
Canada's Water: Hands Off, The Economist, December 4, 1999.
121
3
UNIT 5 Latin America
Overview
122
2
The International Relations of Latin America and the Caribbean: Defining the New Era
124
6
G. Pope Atkins
Colombia at War
130
5
Michael Shifter
Economic Crisis in Latin America: Global Contagion, Local Pain
135
7
James E. Mohon Jr.
UNIT 6 Europe
Overview
140
2
Western Europe
The Search for a Common Foreign Policy
142
3
Reginald Dale
Enemies and Colleaques, The Economist, December 4, 1999.
145
3
Central Europe
The Revolutions of 1989 Reconsidered
148
5
Peter Rutland
Unlearning the Lessons of Kosovo
153
9
Ivo H. Daalder
Michael E. O'Hanlon
UNIT 7 Russia and the Former Soviet States
Overview
160
2
Life with Boris: Rousing, Infuriating, Always Surprising---Yeltsin the Singular
162
3
Andrew Higgins
Steve Liesman
Still Soul Searching
165
4
Konstantin Eggert
The Baltics: Between Russia and the West
169
5
James Kurth
Chaos in the Caucasus, The Economist, October 9, 1999.
174
6
UNIT 8 The Pacific Basin
Overview
178
2
Is the Asian Financial Crisis Over?
180
5
Jonathan Lemco
Scott B. MacDonald
Tigers Ready to Roar?
185
4
David Martin Jones
Mike Smith
Does China Matter?
189
6
Gerald Segal
Tokyo's Depression Diplomacy
195
4
Yoichi Funabashi
Toward a Comprehensive Settlement of the Korea Problem
199
7
Bruce Cumings
UNIT 9 Middle East and Africa
Overview
204
2
License to Kill: Usama bin Ladin's Declaration of Jihad
206
4
Bernard Lewis
Iraq and the UN's Weapon of Mass Destruction
210
3
Denis J. Halliday
Saddam's Survival in the Ruins, World Press Review, August 1999.
213
2
Africa, Marina Ottaway, Foreign Policy, Spring 1999.
215
6
Post-Imperial Africa at War, Marina Ottaway, Current History, May 1999.
221
7
UNIT 10 International Organizations and Global Issues
Overview
226
2
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Repairing the Security Council
228
3
Richard Butler
Outsourcing War
231
6
David Shearer
Children under Arms: Kalashnikov Kids, The Economist, July 10, 1999.
237
4
Index
241
3
Article Review Form
244
1
Article Rating Form
245