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Power & Choice, 8/e
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis
Global Politics: Politics Among States (and others)

Chapter Outline


I. International politics or global politics--use of power to make collective choices among states

II. The evolution of the international system since WWII

III. The New World Order
  1. Expansion and increased variety of actors involved in international politics
  2. Growth of interdependency of world's states
    1. Box: Banning land mines
  1. Disappearance of bipolar system/rivalry between US and USSR
  2. Shift of large number of states' economies to open markets
  3. Development of body of international law that might impose enforceable law on leaders of states and states

IV. International Politics

V. The absence of central authority

VI. Fiduciary political roles and international morality

VII. Impediments to international communication

VIII. Power and international politics
  1. Military power
  2. Population
  3. Economic power
  4. Geography
  5. Leadership

IX. The process of international politics
  1. diplomacy and other non-military measures
    1. economic sanctions
  1. War
    1. Causes
      1. nationalism
      2. transitions
      3. misperceptions by leaders
      4. whether rich powerful states or poor
      5. democracies

X. Power and choice in international politics
  1. Ex: A failure of the New World Order: Ethnic conflict in Rwanda
  2. Ex: United Nations








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