International politics : enduring concepts and contemporary issues / [edited by] Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis.

Includes bibliographical references.

The moral blindness of scientific man / Hans J. Morgenthau -- A critique of Morgenthau's principles of political realism / J. Ann Tickner -- Human rights in world politics / Rhoda E. Howard and Jack Donnelly -- The anarchic structure of world politics / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Anarchy and the limits of cooperation / Joseph M. Grieco -- Anarchy is what states make of it / Alexander Wendt -- The conditions for cooperation in world politics / Kenneth A. Oye -- Kant, liberal legacies and foreign affairs / Michael W. Doyle -- Alliances : balancing and bandwagoning / Stephen M. Walt -- The future of diplomacy / Hans J. Morgenthau -- The uses and limits of international law / Stanley Hoffmann -- A functional theory of regimes / Robert O. Keohane -- The United Nations and international security / Adam Roberts -- The four functions of force / Robert J. Art -- The diplomacy of violence / Thomas C. Schelling -- Offense, defense and the security dilemma / Robert Jervis -- International terrorism / Brian M. Jenkins -- The irrelevance of nuclear weapons / John Mueller -- The utility of nuclear deterrence / Robert Jervis -- Complex interdependence and the role of force / Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye -- The fungibility of force / Robert J. Art -- Third world security / Caroline Thomas -- The nature of political economy / Robert Gilpin -- Hegemony in the world political economy / Robert O. Keohane -- The great divide in the global village / Bruce R. Scott -- Measuring globalization / A. T. Kearney -- The changed world economy / Peter F. Drucker -- The trading state - then and now / Richard Rosecrance -- Globalization and governance / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Why international primacy matters / Samuel P. Huntington -- Competitiveness : a dangerous obsession / Paul Krugman -- The era of leading power peace / Robert Jervis -- The clash of civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntington -- Possible and impossible solutions to ethnic civil wars / Chaim Kaufmann -- Peace, stability and nuclear weapons / Kenneth N. Waltz -- The non-state NBC threat / Richard A. Falkenrath, Robert D. Newman, and Bradley A. Thayer -- The stability of a unipolar world / William C. Wohlforth -- The stability of post-Cold War order / G. John Ikenberry -- Balancing power : not today but tomorrow / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Trading in illusions / Dani Rodrik -- Why the globalization backlash is stupid / John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- The infinite supply of natural resources / Julian L. Simon -- Cornucopians and neo-Malthusians / Thomas Homer-Dixon -- The Kyoto Protocol : Bonn voyage / Daniel Bodansky -- Power shift / Jessica T. Mathews -- The state is alive and well / Stephen D. Krasner -- Transnational activist networks / Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink -- The European Union : e pluribus confusio / John van Oudenaren -- International law : the trials of global norms /Steven R. Ratner.

The theme for this book revolves around enduring concepts and contemporary issues in world politics. The authors have put both the developments and the literature in the context of the patterns that still remain valid for understanding the differences between politics in an anarchic environment and politics that takes place under a government.