Perspectives on world politics / edited by Richard Little and Michael Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

States and statehood / K.J. Holsti -- The idea of the state and national security / Barry Buzan -- Continuity and change in the states system / Robert H. Jackson -- The nation-state in the global economy / Robert Gilpin -- The spiral of international insecurity / Robert Jervis -- Strategies for survival / John J. Mearsheimer -- State power and the structure of international trade / Stephen D. Krasner -- Cooperation and international regimes / Robert O. Keohane -- Structural realism after the Cold War / Kenneth N. Waltz -- The stability of a unipolar world / William C. Wohlforth -- Law, strategy and history / Philip Bobbitt -- The state of globalization : towards a theory of state transformation / Martin Shaw -- Institutions, strategic restraint, and the persistence of American postwar order / G. John Ikenberry -- Inter-state cooperation and institutional choice / Andrew Moravcsik -- European integration from the 1980s : state-centric v. multi-level governance / Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, Kermit Blank -- The power of international organizations / Michael N. Barnett, Martha Finnemore -- Transnational advocacy networks in international politics / Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn Sikkink -- Power, interdependence and the information age / Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- Globalization and the evolution of rules / Wayne Sandholtz -- A framework for the study of security communities / Emanuel Adler, Michael Barnett -- Global civil society / Jan Aart Scholte -- Cosmopolitanism : globalization tamed? / David Held -- A structural theory of imperialism / Johan Galtung -- The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system : concepts for comparative analysis / Immanuel Wallerstein -- The multinational corporation and the law of uneven development / Stephen Hymer -- Capitalist globalization and the transformation of the state / William I. Robinson -- Neoliberal cosmopolitanism / Peter Gowan -- Globalizing capitalism and the rise of identity politics / Frances Fox Piven -- The globalized war economy / Mary Kaldor -- The new development-security terrain / Mark Duffield -- The imagined economies of globalization / Angus Cameron, Ronen Palan -- Conceptualizing resistance to globalization / Christine B.N. Chin, James H. Mittelman -- The dynamics of anti-globalization / James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer -- On the costs of realism / Robert L. Rothstein -- Three ideologies of political economy / Robert Gilpin -- The future of the American empire / Susan Strange -- Social forces, states and world orders : beyond international relations theory / Robert W. Cox -- Reflections on war and political discourse : realism, just war, and feminism in a nuclear age / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Masculinities, IR and the 'gender variable' / Charlotte Hooper -- International relations : one world, many theories / Stephen M. Walt -- The rise and fall of the inter-paradigm debate / Ole Wµver -- Four sociologies of international politics / Alexander Wendt -- Realist constructivism / Samuel Barkin.