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Chapter 1: The Making of the Modern World
- The rise of the sovereign state
- The Westphalian system
- An inter-national system
- The Europeans and the rest of the world
- Conclusion
Chapter 2: Diplomacy
- What is diplomacy?
- Regulating nuclear weapons
- To the brink and back
- The Non-Proliferation Treaty
- The US and Iran
- The Iran hostage crisis
- Nuclear Iran
- Conclusion
Chapter 3: One World, Many Actors
- Levels of analysis
- How the level of analysis determines our findings
- Levels of analysis and the changing ambitions of a discipline
- IR as arena or process?
- Beyond the state
- IR and you
Chapter 4: International Relations Theory
- Traditional theories
- The middle ground
- Critical theories
- Theory in practice: examining the United Nations
- Conclusion
Chapter 5: International Law
- What law is international law?
- The contents of international law
- From ‘no world government’ to global governance
- The functioning of international law
- Conclusion
Chapter 6: International Organisations
- International governmental organisations
- International non-governmental organisations and hybrid international organisations
- How international organisations shape our world
- Conclusion
Chapter 7: Global Civil Society
- Conditions for transnational activism
- Global civil society as a response to transnational exclusion
- Values promotion and creating change
- Contested legitimacy
- The case of the moratorium on the death penalty
- Conclusion
Chapter 8: Global Political Economy
- Liberal approaches
- Individual actors
- The state and the multinational corporation
- Towards global economic governance?
- Conclusion
Chapter 9: Religion and Culture
- Elements of religion
- Elements of culture
- Religion and culture: difference and similarity
- Can we all live together?
- Conclusion
Chapter 10: Global Poverty and Wealth
- Defining poverty
- Measuring and reducing poverty
- Globalisation and the wealth–poverty dynamic
- Globalisation and neoliberalism
- Conclusion
Chapter 11: Protecting People
- Key positions
- Emerging norms of human protection
- Problems and challenges
- Conclusion
Chapter 12: Connectivity, Communications and Technology
- The internet
- Digital commerce
- Digital communications
- Reach
- Affordability
- Reliance
- Control
- Conclusion
Chapter 13: Voices of The People
- Change in a globalising world
- ‘Colour’ and ‘umbrella’ revolutions
- The Occupy movement
- The Arab Spring
- Conclusion
Chapter 14: Transnational Terrorism
- What is transnational terrorism?
- Motivation and goals
- Activities
- Organisation and resources
- Countering transnational terrorism
- Conclusion
Chapter 15: The Environment
- The relationship between international relations and environmental problems
- Common pool resource theory
- The global environment as a global commons
- Global rights and domestic environmental politics and policy
- Do we need a global environmental organisation?
- Conclusion
Chapter 16: Feeding the World
- The bottom-up approach
- Sudden food shortages and the disenfranchised citizen
- Chronic hunger and the civic participant
- Adulterated milk and the protective parent
- Childhood obesity and the bad mother
- Low wages and the deserving worker
- Land dispossession and the traditional peasant
- Conclusion
Chapter 17: Managing Global Security Beyond ‘Pax Americana’
- From isolation to global superpower
- On global watch
- A world full of troubles
- A world full of free riders?
- Finding an alternative world order
- Conclusion
Chapter 18: Crossings and Candles
- The four-minute mile
- Servant of empire
- World-making
- Industrial IR
- Talk, text, technology
- Conclusion