Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
|
Topic
/ Chapter |
Page |
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PART ONE: Understanding International
Relations |
1 |
|
1.
The Study of International Relations |
3 |
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Why Study International
Relations? |
3 |
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How Do We Study
International Relations |
10 |
|
What Is the Study of International
Relations? |
20 |
|
Chapter Summary |
26 |
|
2.
The Historical Setting of International Relations |
33 |
|
The Origins of the
Modern State |
33 |
|
The Classical State
System, 1648–1914 |
37 |
|
The Twentieth Century |
42 |
|
The Post-Cold War Era |
51 |
|
Globalization as a
Stage of History |
52 |
|
History and
International Society |
55 |
|
Chapter Summary |
56 |
|
3.
Actors on the International Stage |
61 |
|
The State |
61 |
|
Substate Actors |
66 |
|
International
Government Organizations |
74 |
|
International
Nongovernment Organizations |
77 |
|
Multiple Actors and
International Society |
87 |
|
Chapter Summary |
89 |
|
PART TWO: The Instruments of
International Relations |
97 |
|
4.
Defining Power in a New Era |
99 |
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The Meaning of Power |
99 |
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Special Dimensions of
Power |
100 |
|
The Measurement of
Power |
102 |
|
The International Power
Structure |
112 |
|
The Changing Faces of
Power |
118 |
|
Power and International
Society |
121 |
|
Chapter Summary |
123 |
|
5.
War and Lesser Conflict: Force in Decline? |
129 |
|
The Traditional Role of
War |
129 |
|
Patterns of War |
131 |
|
Causes of War |
132 |
|
Types of War |
140 |
|
The Just War Concept |
143 |
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To Purge War |
144 |
|
Lesser Conflicts |
149 |
|
War and International
Society |
155 |
|
Chapter Summary |
157 |
|
6.
Penetration Operations: Intelligence, Covert Acts, and Propaganda |
165 |
|
The Intelligence
Process |
166 |
|
Counterintelligence |
166 |
|
Covert and Overt
Intelligence |
167 |
|
The Usefulness of
Intelligence |
167 |
|
The Techniques of
Intelligence |
168 |
|
Covert Acts |
176 |
|
National Intelligence
Agencies |
178 |
|
Propaganda |
184 |
|
Penetration Operations
and Nonstate Actors |
189 |
|
Secrecy and Democracy |
190 |
|
Penetration Operations
in the Post-Cold War Era |
191 |
|
Intelligence Activities
and International Society |
194 |
|
Chapter Summary |
195 |
|
7.
The Role of Diplomacy: A Traditional Tool in Changing Times |
201 |
|
A Brief History of
Diplomacy |
202 |
|
Functions of Diplomacy |
202 |
|
Negotiation and
Bargaining |
210 |
|
The Legal Setting of
Diplomacy |
212 |
|
Diplomatic Styles |
218 |
|
Operating Conditions of
Diplomacy |
219 |
|
Nonstate Actors and
Diplomacy |
227 |
|
Multilateral Diplomacy |
229 |
|
Diplomacy and
International Society |
230 |
|
Chapter Summary |
232 |
|
8.
The International Political Economy: Instruments of Competition and Conflict |
237 |
|
Contending Perspectives
on the International Economy |
238 |
|
Major Trade States:
Liberal Order or Adversarial Competition? |
241 |
|
Economic Healing in the
Post-Cold War Era |
247 |
|
The North-South
Relation: A Diminishing Conflict? |
249 |
|
Economic Instruments:
Positive and Negative Tools |
260 |
|
Economic Instruments
and International Society |
265 |
|
Chapter Summary |
268 |
|
9.
The International Political Economy: The Institutions of Cooperation and
Integration |
275 |
|
Postwar Economic
Cooperation |
276 |
|
Globalism Versus
Regionalism |
283 |
|
European Economic
Integration |
284 |
|
The Emergence of NAFTA |
293 |
|
Prospects for
Regionalism in the Asian-Pacific Area |
297 |
|
Economic Cooperation
and International Society |
301 |
|
Chapter Summary |
302 |
|
PART THREE: The Struggle for World
Order |
309 |
|
10.
Arms Limitations: Passage Into the Post-Cold War Era |
311 |
|
The Objectives of Arms
Limitations |
312 |
|
Obstacles to Arms
Limitation |
315 |
|
Types of Arms
Limitations |
319 |
|
A Proliferation of Arms |
327 |
|
The Status of Weapons
Regimes |
337 |
|
The Role of Nonstate
Actors |
340 |
|
Arms Limitations and International
Society |
343 |
|
Chapter Summary |
344 |
|
11.
International Law As the Framework for International Society |
351 |
|
The Sources of
International Law |
352 |
|
The Subjects of
International Law |
355 |
|
The Scope of
International Law |
361 |
|
The Effectiveness of
International Law |
365 |
|
International Law in a
Multicultural World |
372 |
|
International Law and
International Society |
376 |
|
Chapter Summary |
379 |
|
12.
International Organizations for Security and Progress |
385 |
|
Types of International Organizations |
386 |
|
A Brief History of
International Organizations |
387 |
|
The Pursuit of Peace |
394 |
|
Efforts at Economic
Progress |
405 |
|
Efforts at Social
Progress |
407 |
|
IGO Cooperation in
Technical Areas |
416 |
|
United Nations Vitality |
417 |
|
International
Organizations and International Society |
419 |
|
Chapter Summary |
421 |
|
PART FOUR: Sharing a Planet and
Planetary Experiences |
427 |
|
13.
Environment of Humankind: A Future in Jeopardy |
429 |
|
Human Ecology |
430 |
|
The Core Variables |
434 |
|
Elements of the Environment |
439 |
|
Protecting the
Environment Through a Global Civil Society |
447 |
|
The Environment and
International Society |
455 |
|
Chapter Summary |
457 |
|
14.
Shared Experiences of Humankind |
465 |
|
The Global
Communications Network |
465 |
|
English as a Global Lingua
Franca |
468 |
|
A Cosmopolitan World? |
470 |
|
Prospects for A
Democratic World |
471 |
|
The Reputed "Clash
of Civilizations": The Case of Islamic Fundamentalism |
475 |
|
International Health
Threats |
477 |
|
International Organized
Crime |
479 |
|
Shared Experiences and
International Society |
483 |
|
Chapter Summary |
485 |
|
PART FIVE: Conclusion |
491 |
|
15.
Conditions and Trends at the Turn of the 21st Century |
493 |
|
Authority |
493 |
|
Actors |
494 |
|
Orientation |
496 |
|
Force |
497 |
|
Interaction |
498 |
|
Issues |
499 |
|
Problem-Solving Level |
500 |
|
Consensus |
501 |
|
A Parting Word |
502 |
|
INDEX |
505 |
