| | | Preface | | |
| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| | | Introduction: Changing Frame of Analysis | | 1 |
| Pt. I | | The Actors in Global Politics | | 19 |
| 1 | | The Nature of Foreign Policy | | 20 |
| 2 | | Government and Policymaking | | 38 |
| 3 | | Capability Inaction | | 53 |
| 4 | | The Implementation of Decisions | | 68 |
| Pt. II | | The Global Political System: Actors and Their Relations | | 85 |
| 5 | | Traditional Ideas and Patterns of Global Politics | | 86 |
| 6 | | New Conditions of Global Politics | | 102 |
| 7 | | Conflict and Conflict Resolution | | 119 |
| 8 | | Limitations on State Action | | 135 |
| Pt. III | | The Substance of Global Politics: Major Issues of Our Age | | 149 |
| 9 | | War and Arms Control | | 150 |
| 10 | | The Role of Belief Systems: Ideology, Nationalism, and Religious Fundamentalism | | 174 |
| 11 | | Humankind, Technology, and the Ecosystem | | 192 |
| 12 | | Integration, Interdependence, North-South Relations, and Development | | 209 |
| 13 | | The World Economy and the Multinational Corporation | | 227 |
| 14 | | Ethnicity, Terrorism, and Nonviolence | | 244 |
| 15 | | Human Rights | | 261 |
| | | Conclusion: Toward Cooperative Global Politics | | 278 |
| | | Authors Postscript to the Fourth Edition | | 290 |
| | | Index | | 293 |