Global politics in a changing world: a reader

1. Continuity and change in global politics

Turbulence in world politics: a theory of change and continuity / James N. Rosenau

Bloggers may be the real opposition / The Economist

Sovereignty, borders, and real life

Why the world isn't flat / Pankaj Ghemawat

Our borderless world / Moisés Naím

Cities mesh across blurry border, despite physical barrier / Marc Lacey

The Twenty-First-Century state?

We need rules for sovereign funds / Jeffrey Garten

pt. I. The changing nature of war

2. Out of control? The rise of postmodern war and terrorism

The new wars / Herfried Münkler

The global menace of local strife / The Economist

Targeting the innocent: terrorism

Strategies of terrorism / Andrew H. Kydd and Barbara F. Walter

Hiring an army: mercenaries and private military contractors

The private surge / Steve Fainaru

War by electron: cyberwar

Cyber attack vexes Estonia, poses debate / Christopher Rhoads

A world wide web of terror / The Economist

3. Weapons of mass destruction: thinking about the unthinkable, again

The new threat of mass destruction / Richard K. Betts

Nuclear proliferation

Bombs away / The Economist

Ballistic missile defense

U.S. missile defense / International Institute for Strategic Studies

The consequences of a "limited" nuclear war

Climate effects of a nuclear war / Alan Robock

Biological weapons

With custom-built pathogens come new fears / Joby Warrick.

pt. II. Disintegration and integration in today's world

4. Democracy: a global institution?

History is still going our way / Francis Fukuyama

The return of authoritarian great powers / Azar Gat

Dictating democracy

America's crusade / Edward Rhodes

America's crisis of legitimacy / Robert Kagan

Religion and democracy

Why God is winning / Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft

Islamists suffer as freedom slips down the Mideast agenda / Heba Saleh

5. Failed states

Failed states in a world of terror / Robert I. Rotberg

Africa's revolutionary deficit / Jeremy M. Weinstein

The coming anarchy / Robert D. Kaplan

Haiti

UN troops fight Haiti's gangs one battered street at a time / Marc Lacey

Iraq

The 10th circle / Terry McCarthy

6. Solving shared problems: intergovernmental organizations

The United Nations

International organizations: perspectives on governance in the Twenty-First Century / Kelly-Kate S. Pease

The United Nations / The Economist

The International Monetary Fund

The IMF and democratic governance / Devesh Kapur and Moisés Naím

The European Union

Standard bearer: how the European Union exports its laws / Tobias Buck

7. Ties that bind: the rise of transnational institutions

Power shift / Jessica T. Mathews

Learning to live with NGOs / P.J. Simmons

NGOs and states

NGOs: sins of the secular missionaries / The Economist

What is a gongo? / Moisés Naím

TNCs

Mountain of gold leaves a river of waste / Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner

NGOs and TNCs

How a global web of activists gives Coke problems in India / Steve Stecklow

The NGO-TNC-State nexus

More than the sum of the parts / Sarah Murray

8. Thy brother's keeper: human rights and international law in the posinternational era

Are human rights universal? / Thomas M. Franck

Taming Leviathan / The Economist

An international criminal court

If not peace, then justice / Elizabeth Rubin.

pt. III. A new security agenda in a globalized world

9. The problem of soft security: crime, disease, and dangerous products in a globalized world

Redefining security

Human security in a globalized world / Rob McRae

Crime

The five wars of globalization / Moisés Naím

In Afghanistan, heroin trade soars despite U.S. aid / Philip Shishkin and David Crawford

Disease

Together, in sickness and in health / Natalie Angier

Dangerous products

Dangers for both pets and people / Ariana Eunjung Cha

10. Managing a global economy

The challenge of global capitalism / Robert Gilpin

Economic globalization

In the shadow of prosperity / The Economist

How trade barriers keep Africans adrift / Juliane von Reppert-Bismark

Monetary and financial issues

The ABCs of global money and finance / Peter J. Dombrowski

China, India, and a new international economic order

The new new world order / Daniel W. Drezner

11. Poverty and development

The tangled web: the poverty-insecurity nexus / Lael Brainard, Derek Chollet, and Vinca LaFleur

The megacity / George Packer

Aid, advice, and governance: ending poverty forever

The eight commandments / The Economist

Moving people rather than moving jobs?

Should we globalize labor too? / Jason DeParle

12. Environmental issues and the global commons

The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin

The problem of collective action

Global problems and local concerns / The World Bank

Global warming, environmental degradation, and international conflict

Terror in the weather forecast / Thomas Homer-Dixon

Receding Aral Sea offers fertile ground for conflict / David Stern

A global web of pollution and environmental devastation

Huge dust plumes from China cause changes in climate / Robert Lee Hotz

A corrupt timber trade / Peter S. Goodman and Peter Finn

13. Immigrants, refugees, and diasporas: population movements across borders

Crossing borders: international migration and national security / Fiona B. Adamson

Political causes and effects of migration: poverty, misgovernment, and violence

Europe's huddled masses / The Economist

A massive migration / Sudarsan Raghavan

Diasporas and international politics

A world of exiles / The Economist.

pt. IV. The subjective dimension: identities and loyalties

14. The clash of cultures and identities

The clash of civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntington

What clash of civilizations? / Amartya Sen

Identity clashes in Europe

Cartoon uproar exposes Muslim divide / Andrew Higgins

New Russia: from class to ethnic struggle / Steven Lee Myers

The new divide in world politics? The West versus the Islamic world

Mutual incomprehension, mutual outrage / The Economist

15. Gender and global politics

Women, the State, and war: feminist incursions into world politics / Franke Wilmer

Gender, human security, and national security

Infanticide, abortion responsible for 60 million girls missing in Asia / Sherry Karabin

A surplus of men, a deficit of peace / Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea Den Boer

Women's rights as human rights: or as Western cultural imperialism?

Yet another problem in the Middle East / The Economist.com

Female genital mutilation on rise in Britain / MSNBC.com

16. Globalization, localization, and politics

The globalization index / A.T. Kearney, Inc., and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

English as the language of global education / Doreen Carvajal

Soccer v. McWorld / Franklin Foer

Managing the problems of a globalized world

How globalization went bad / Steven Weber, [et al ...]

Paradoxes of globalization

Loves Microsoft, hates America / Adam Davidson.