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Understanding international conflicts

an introduction to theory and history

5th ed.
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  • 1 Currently reading

Written by renowned scholar and former policymaker Joseph Nye, Jr. and new co-author David A. Welch, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation is a brief and penetrating introduction to the study of world politics in an era of complex interdependence.

This text deftly employs lessons from both theory and history to evaluate conflict and cooperation among global actors and to provide students with a resilient analytical framework. From twentieth and twenty-first century conflicts to global trade and finance, global governance, and the information revolution, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation, formerly known as Understanding International Conflicts, expands substantially on previous editions of this classic work to provide a lucid and thought-provoking survey of international relations today.

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Table of Contents

Is there an enduring logic of conflict in world politics?
Origins of the great Twentieth-Century conflicts
Balance of power and World War I
The failure of collective security and World War II
The Cold War
Intervention, institutions, and regional and ethnic conflicts
Globalization and interdependence
The information revolution, transnational actors, and the diffusion of power
A new world order?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Series
Longman classics in political science

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
327/.09/04
Library of Congress
JZ1305 .N94 2005, JZ1305.N94 2005

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Pagination
xii, 276 p. :
Number of pages
276

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL20947216M
ISBN 10
0321209451
LCCN
2004009190
OCLC/WorldCat
55016154
LibraryThing
11797
Goodreads
342070

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OL1027500W

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