Cases in International Relations: Portraits of the Future, 3rd Edition

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 important 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

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