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1 Global 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page iiGlobal PoliticsANDREW 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page iii Andrew Heywood 2011 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of thispublication may be made without written portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmittedsave with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of theCopyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licencepermitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street.

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3 Logging, pulping and manufacturingprocesses are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of thecountry of catalogue record for this book is available from the British catalog record for this book is available from the Library of 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 Printed in 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page ivFor Oliver, Freya, Dominic and 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page vThis page intentionally left blank1 Introducing Global Politics12 Historical Context253 Theories of Global Politics534 The Economy in a Global Age835 The State and Foreign Policy in a Global Age1116 Society in a Global Age1367 The Nation in a Global Age1578 Identity.

4 Culture and Challenges to the West1819 Power and Twenty-first Century World Order20910 War and Peace23911 Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament 26312 Terrorism28213 Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention30314 International Law 33115 Poverty and Development35216 Global Environmental Issues38317 gender in Global Politics41218 International Organization and the United Nations43219 Global Governance and the Bretton Woods System45620 Regionalism and Global Politics48021 Global Futures507 Brief 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page viiThis page intentionally left blankList of Illustrative MaterialxivPrefacexixAcknowledgementsxxi i1 Introducing Global Politics1 WHAT IS Global Politics ?

5 2 What s in a name?2 From international Politics to Global politics3 Globalization and its implications9 LENSES ON Global POLITICS12 Mainstream perspectives12 Critical perspectives15 CONTINUITY AND change IN Global POLITICS17 Power17 Security19 Justice21 USING THIS BOOK212 Historical Context25 MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD26 From ancient to modern 26 Rise of the West27 Age of imperialism28 THE SHORT TWENTIETH CENTURY:1914 9029 Origins of World War I29 Road to World War II32 End of Empires36 Rise and fall of the Cold War38 THE WORLD SINCE 199044A new world order ?

6 449/11 and the war on terror 45 Shifting balances within the Global economy 503 Theories of Global Politics53 MAINSTREAM PERSPECTIVES54 Realism54 Liberalism61 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES67 Marxism, neo-Marxism and critical theory67 Social constructivism71 Poststructuralism73 Feminism74 Green politics75 Postcolonialism76 THINKING GLOBALLY77 Challenge of interconnectedness77 Cosmopolitanism79 Paradigms: enlightening or constraining?814 The Economy in a Global Age83 CAPITALISM AND NEOLIBERALISM84 Capitalisms of the 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page ixxCONTENTST riumph of neoliberalism90 Implications of neoliberalism91 ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION93 Causes of economic globalization93 How globalized is economic life?

7 96 Global CAPITALISM IN CRISIS 100 Explaining booms and slumps100 Lessons of the Great Crash103 Modern crises and contagions 1045 The State and Foreign Policy in a Global Age111 STATES AND STATEHOOD IN FLUX112 States and sovereignty112 The state and globalization114 State transformation118 Return of the state121 NATIONAL GOVERNMENT TO MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE123 From government to governance123 Multi-level governance126 FOREIGN POLICY128 End of foreign policy?128 How decisions are made1296 Society in a Global Age136 SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS: THICK TO THIN?

8 137 From industrialization to post-industrialism137 New technology and information society 138 Risk, uncertainty and insecurity141 GLOBALIZATION, CONSUMERISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL145 Social and cultural implications of globalization145 Consumerism goes global146 Rise of individualism147 Global CIVIL SOCIETY150 Explaining Global civil society150 Transnational social movements and NGOs152 Globalization from below?1557 The Nation in a Global Age 157 NATIONALISM AND WORLD POLITICS158 Making sense of nationalism158A world of nation-states161 Nationalism, war and conflict165 NATIONS IN A Global WORLD166A world on the move168 Transnational communities and diasporas171 Hybridity and multiculturalism173 NATIONALISM REVIVED175 National self-assertion in the post-Cold War period175 Rise of cultural and ethnic nationalism178 Anti-globalization nationalism1798 Identity.

9 Culture and Challenges to the West181 RISE OF IDENTITY POLITICS182 Westernization as modernization182 Politics of collective identity183Is cultural conflict inevitable?187 RELIGIOUS REVIVALISM189 Religion and politics189 The fundamentalist upsurge192 CHALLENGES TO THE WEST194 Postcolonialism194 Asian values195 Islam and the West197 Nature of political Islam197 The West and the Muslim question 2059 Power and Twenty-first Century World Order209 POWER AND Global POLITICS210 Power as 20/12/10 2:22 pm Page xCONTENTSxiRelational power and structural power211 Changing nature of power213 POST-COLD WAR Global ORDER216 End of Cold War bipolarity216 The new world order and its fate217US HEGEMONY AND Global ORDER220 Rise to hegemony220 The war on terror and beyond222 Benevolent or malign hegemony?

10 226A MULTIPOLAR Global ORDER?228 Rise of multipolarity228 Multipolar order or disorder?23410 War and Peace239 NATURE OF WAR240 Types of war240 Why do wars occur?241 War as a continuation of politics243 CHANGING FACE OF WAR245 From old wars to new wars?245 Postmodern warfare251 JUSTIFYING WAR254 Realpolitik254 Just war theory256 Pacifism26011 Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament 263 NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION264 Nature of nuclear weapons264 Proliferation during the Cold War266 Proliferation in the post-Cold War era267 NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT273 Arms control and anti-proliferation strategies273A world free of nuclear weapons?