Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University
David A. Welch, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo
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Written by celebrated scholar Joseph Nye and new co-author David Welch, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation is a concise and penetrating introduction to world politics in an era of complex interdependence.
This text employs lessons from theory and history to examine conflict and cooperating among global actors and thus to provide readers with a durable analytical framework. From twentieth and twenty-first century wars to global finance and global governance, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation, formerly known as Understanding International Conflicts, expands substantially on a classic work and continues to deliver a thought-provoking survey of international relations today.
“Sometimes original scholars sound pedantic when addressing central issues of world politics; often policymakers speak in code or platitudes. Not so Professor Nye. As any reader will see, the work in your hands is lucid, direct, and concise. Reading Nye’s writing on world politics is like watching Joe DiMaggio play center field or Yo-Yo Ma play the cello: he makes the difficult look easy.”–from Robert O. Keohane’s Foreword
Sample chapter is available for download in PDF format.
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Chapter 1 now provides a clearer introduction to the purposes and themes of the book designed specifically to draw students’ attention to elements both of continuity and change in world politics from ancient times to the present. (ex. Ch. 1)
Chapter 2 provides expanded discussions of constructivism and counterfactual reasoning as well as enhanced historical illustrations. (ex. p. 69)
Chapter 3 includes a new section on balance of power theory. (ex. p. 84)
Chapter 5 features a new analysis of the Vietnam War that is better connected both to the concept of containment and to the problem of moral judgment in world affairs. (ex. p. 159)
Chapter 6 includes enhanced discussions of collective security, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; provides a revised discussion of the responsibility to protect in light of recent events in Libya; and includes a new section on the South China Sea as a potential flashpoint for international conflict. (ex. p. 215)
Chapter 7 connects oil politics more to the sensitivity and vulnerability dimensions of interdependence. (ex. p. 278)
Chapter 8 covers the Arab Spring to expand and deepen the analysis of how changes in information technology, and in particular the rise of social media, empower and constrain both state and non-state actors. It also discusses the significance of the death of Osama bin Laden and subsequent deepening tensions in U.S.-Pakistani relations for the battle against transnational terrorism. (ex. p. 286)
Chapter 9 reflects upon the impact of the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear crisis, for energy security and climate change. (ex. p. 335)
Chapter 1. Are There Enduring Logics of Cooperation in World Politics?
Chapter 2. Explaining Conflict and Cooperation: Tools and Techniques of the Trade
Chapter 3. From Westphalia to World War I
Chapter 4. The Failure of Collective Security and World War II
Chapter 5. The Cold War
Chapter 6. Post-Cold War Cooperation, Conflict, Flashpoints
Chapter 7. Globalization and Interdependence
Chapter 8. The Information Revolution and Transnational Actors
Chapter 9. What Can We Expect in the Future?
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Joseph S. Nye is University Distinguished Service Professor at and former Dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He also served as a Deputy to the Undersecretary of State in the Carter Administration, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Clinton Administration, and Chair of the National Intelligence Council.
David A. Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.
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