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Anderson Peter J. The global politics of power, justice and death
Изд. Routledge, 1996. 276 p.

This exciting new text adopts a challenging question-led approach to the major issues facing global society today, in order to investigate the nature and complexity of global change. Among other things it looks at the future of the state, the environment, the inteational political economy, war and global rivalries, and the role of inteational law and the UN in the post-Cold War world.
The book devises a readily comprehensible ‘Change Map’, which both incorporates a wide range of the fundamental concepts of inteational relations theory and suggests a number of new concepts capable of assisting the investigation of global change. This new framework is deployed to look closely at real world issues in order to isolate the crucial factors which determine whether or not mass hunger, for example, or environmental abuse, can be eliminated.
Students of Inteational Relations and Inteational Politics will find this a stimulating and rovocative introduction to a fascinating subject.
Peter J.Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in European and Inteational Studies, University of Central Lancashire.

1 A game beyond chess: explaining the Global Change Map
Competition in global politics
The competing attitudes and perceptions of elites and the wider population with regard to the desirability of specific goals that may affect global change—the battle for dominance
The role of ideology, imperatives and interests
The role of power and influence
The role of fortune
The role of opportunity factors
The role of blocking factors
Using the map
2 The American pivot
What factors can influence US policy on global change?
How important is all of this for global change?
3 Can the state survive?
The threat from economic global interfusion
Introduction
Preliminary questions
The threat to the state posed by the global liberal capitalist economic system: the view of traditional liberals
The views of interventionist liberals
The views of the less developed states
The plight of the former Soviet Union
The threat from increasing global economic interfusion— multinationals under the microscope
The threat to states from inteational finance
The final balance—for and against the liberal system
4 The second challenge: the threats to the state from scientific, technological and cultural
aspects of global interfusion
Introduction
The effects of pollution inteationally
The effects of scientific and technological developments
Cultural factors and the age of global travel
The collective implications of these factors for the state
Conclusions
5 Global environmental problems
Introduction
What are the major current threats to the global environment?
What are the solutions to global environmental problems?
What are the obstacles in the way of solutions?
How and to what extent might such obstacles be overcome?
6 The political economy of death: what causes global poverty?
Introduction
Absolute poverty and development
What are the main causes of the global poverty problem?
7 An end to global poverty?
What are the solutions to the global poverty problem?
What are the obstacles in the way of the solutions?
How and to what extent might the obstacles to solutions be overcome?
Women and development
8 A second United States? Integration in Weste Europe
Introduction
What is the EU and how far has integration really gone within it?
What are the main incentives towards further integration?
What are the main obstacles in the way of further integration?
9 The future of European integration
Introduction
To what extent are the incentives towards further integration likely to overcome the obstacles?
Scenario I: an examination of the possibility of the emergence of an EU common defence policy
Scenario II: the single market and the EMU
Would continuing European integration be a benefit or a cost to the global community?
Concluding comment
10 Global rivalries and the causes of war
Introduction
What are the causes of war? An introduction
A selective jouey through ideas on the causes of war
11 The control of war Introduction
To what extent can war be eliminated?
Are there some methods of war prevention which are more successful than others?
12 The problem of ‘murderous’ and ‘aggressive’ regimes—the role of inteational law and the United Nations by Steven WheatleyPeter J.Anderson
Introduction
How has inteational law developed as a means of controlling the actions of govements?
What changes did the United Nations system bring?
How has inteational law attempted to ensure the effective protection of human rights?
To what extent does inteational law allow the use of military force to protect human rights?
What action can regional bodies undertake?
Conclusion
Conclusion: The future—can it be anticipated and changed?
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