Chapter 1. How to Think About World Politics: Realism and Its Critics
John J. Mearsheimer, ? The Tragedy of Great Power Politics?
Bruce Russett and John O? Neal, ? International Systems: Vicious Circles and Virtuous Circles?
Alexander Wendt, ? Constructing International Politics?
Ann Tickner, ? Searching for the Princess??
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Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives: Continuity and Change in World Politics
Paul Schroeder, ? Historical Reality vs. Neo-Realist Theory?
Jeffrey Record, ? The Use and Abuse of History: Munich, Vietnam and Iraq?
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Chapter 3. Levels of Analysis: The Making of Foreign Policy
Scott D. Sagan, ? The Causes of Nuclear Proliferation?
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt with responses from Dennis Ross and Zbigniew Brzezinski, ? The War over Israel? s Influence?
John Mueller, ? The Iraq Syndrome?
Steve A. Yetiv, ? The Iraq War of 2003?
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Chapter 4. War and Violence in World Politics: The Realist? s World
Robert Jervis, ? Theories of War in an Era of Leading-Power Peace?
Niall Ferguson, ? The Next War of the World?
Stephen P. Rosen, ? After Proliferation: What to Do if More States Go Nuclear?
John Mueller, ? Terrorphobia: Our False Sense of Insecurity?
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Chapter 5. International Law & Organization: The Promise of Liberal Institutionalism
Robert O. Keohane, ? International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?
Anne Marie-Slaughter, ? Leading Through Law?
Michael Glennon, ? Why the Security Council Failed?
Thomas G. Weiss, ? The Illusion of UN Security Council Reform?
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Chapter 6. The Human Rights Revolution: The Construction of International Norms
Kathryn Sikkink, ? Transnational Politics, International Relations Theory, and Human Rights?
Julie A. Mertus, ? Raising Expectations?: Civil Society? s Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy?
Oona A. Hathaway, ? Making Human Rights Treaties Work: Global Legal Information and Human Rights in the 21st Century?
James Kurth, ? Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq: Legal Ideals vs. Military Realities?
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Chapter 7. Economic Globalization: The Consequences of Liberal Commercialism
James Fallows, ? How the World Works?
Daniel Drezner, ? Trade Talk?
C. Fred Bergsten, ? Meeting the China Challenge?
Dani Rodrik, ? Trading in Illusions?
Niall Ferguson, ? Sinking Globalization?
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Chapter 8. Transnational Actors and Issues: The State System Under Stress
Jessica T. Mathews, ? Power Shift?
Stephen D. Krasner, ? Sovereignty?
David G. Victor, ? What Resource Wars??
James Fallows, ? The Connection Has Been Reset?
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Chapter 9. Global Futures
Robert Kagan, ? History? s Back: Ambitious Autocracies, Hesitant Democracies?
Thomas L. Friedman, ? The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention?
Samuel P. Huntington, ? The Clash of Civilizations?
Kishore Mahbubani, ? The Case Against the West: America and Europe in the Asian Century?
Swanee Hunt, ? Let Women Rule?