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Cases in International Relations: Portraits of the Future, 3/E
Donald M. Snow, University of Alabama

ISBN-10: 0205539084
ISBN-13: 9780205539086

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 336 pp
Published: 04/24/2007

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Cases in International Relations challenges students to use international relations theory to explore the most current and pressing issues facing the world.

 

Designed to complement the main themes of any introductory course, this text presents 16 case studies that focus on the most timely and enduring issues facing the international system. Selected for their contemporary interest to readers, each case study was written by the author. Cases in International Relations offers more than a collection of journal articles; it provides an original and integrated approach to examining global issues that is sure to engage students and get them to apply international relations concepts to real-world situations.

  • Presenting the topics most frequently raised in introductory international relations courses, the cases are organized into five parts—“New Forces in International Relations,” “Evolving Dynamics of International Relations,” “Economic Globalization,” “The Altered Face of Security,” and “Transnational Issues.”
  • An introductory essay in each part puts the cases in context by explaining the part’s theme and linking each case to it.
  • The “Precis” and “Conclusion” in each case focuses students’ reading by highlighting what key problems and dynamics in the international system are raised by the case and by reviewing the case’s outcome and noting which policies worked or did not.
  • Discussion and study questions, research and reading materials, and websites are listed in each case to help students critically engage the cases and to explore them in more depth.

  • A new case study “Popular Terror and the Democratic Peace: Theory Versus Practice” closely examines the rise of terrorist groups through democratic means.
  • A new case study “Debating Globalization: India and Venezuela” compares and contrasts the experience of globalization in two major states.
  • A new case study “Evaluating Globalization: NAFTA After a Decade” dissects the impact of NAFTA, the many debates regarding its success and failure, and the connection between NAFTA and immigration.
  • A new case study “The Perils of Proliferation: Iran and North Korea” analyzes the arguments surrounding nuclear proliferation, especially as they apply to Iran and North Korea.
  • Each case study is thoroughly updated to reflect current scholarship and recent developments in international relations.

Part I. New Forces in International Relations

Chapter 1. Popular Terror and the Democratic Peace: Theory versus Practice

Chapter 2. The Growing Significance of NGOs: Medecins san Frontieres, Military Conflicts, and Beyond

Chapter 3. China Rising: Looming Threat or Global Partner?

                                  

Part II. Evolving Dynamics of International Relations

Chapter 4. War Crimes: The Past in the Present in the Future

Chapter 5. International Permission Slips: Sovereignty and the Right of Intervention

Chapter 6. Resolving the Irresolvable: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

 

Part III. Economic Globalization

Chapter 7. Free Trade or Not Free Trade: From ITO to WTO and Beyond

Chapter 8. Debating Globalization: India and Venezuela

Chapter 9. Evaluating Globalization: NAFTA After a Decade

 

Part IV. The Altered Face of Security

Chapter 10. Future War: From Symmetrical to Asymmetrical Conflict

Chapter 11. The Perils of Proliferation: Iran and North Korea

Chapter 12. Who Cares about Kashmir? An Old Problem with New Teeth

 

Part V. Transnational Issues

Chapter 13. Warm and Getting Warmer: Global Warming and the Fate of the Kyoto Protocol

Chapter 14. “Let Them Drink Oil”: Resource Conflict in the New Century?

Chapter 15. Worse Than the Bubonic Plague: AIDS in Africa as a Transstate Issue

Chapter 16. Understanding and Organizing a Post-September 11, 2001 World: The Continuing Campaign Against Evolving Terrorism

Donald M. Snow is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He is the author of numerous books and articles on national security, international conflict, and American foreign policy.

 

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