SUB Hamburg A/566626 Essential Readings in World Politics FOURTH EDITION EDITED BY Karen A. Mingst and Jack L. Snyder W. W. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON
Contents 1 Preface ix Approaches 1 One World, Rival Theories 2 Jack Snyder Melian Dialogue 10 Thucydides To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch 12 Immanuel Kant History 16 The Fourteen Points 17 Woodrow Wilson The Sources of Soviet Conduct 19 George F. Kennan ("X") Contending Perspectives 25 A Realist Theory of International Politics and Political Power 26 Hans). Morgenthau Anarchy and the Struggle for Power 31 John J. Mearsheimer Liberalism and World Politics 50 Michael W. Doyle Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics 64 Alexander Wendt
Vi CONTENTS Man, the State, and War: Gendered Perspectives on National Security 89 /. Ann Tickner The International System 98 The Balance of Power, Different Methods of the Balance of Power, and Evaluation of the Balance of Power 99 HansJ. Morgenthau Does Order Exist in World Politics? 105 HedleyBull Unipolarity, State Behavior, and Systemic Consequences 110 G. John Ikenberry, Michael Mastanduno, and William C. Wohlforth The State 130 Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States 131 Stephen D. Krasner The Five Wars of Globalization 151 Moises Nairn The Clash of Civilizations? Samuel P. Huntington 159 From Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda 166 Mark Juergensmeyer The Individual 191 Hypotheses on Misperception 192 Robert Jervis Transformative Choices: Leaders and the Origins of Intervention Strategy 206 Elizabeth N. Saunders IGOs, NGOs, and International Law 222 From Does Peacekeeping Work? 224 Virginia Page Fortna Bystanders to Genocide: Why the United States Let the Rwandan Tragedy Happen 233 Samantha Power
CONTENTS vii 8 Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics and Human Rights Advocacy Networks in Latin America 253 Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction 265 Henry A. Kissinger The Case for Universal Jurisdiction 270 Kenneth Roth Is Peace in the Interests of Justice? The Case for Broad Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court 274 Kenneth A. Rodman From After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy 292 Robert O. Keohane The False Promise of International Institutions 308 John J. Mearsheimer War and Strife 320 War as an Instrument of Policy 322 Carl von Clausewitz The Diplomacy of Violence 326 Thomas C. Schelling Cooperation under the Security Dilemma 335 Robert Jervis Rationalist Explanations for War 349 James D. Fearon A Nuclear-Armed Iran: A Difficult but Not Impossible Policy Problem 375 Barry R. Posen Containment Breach 390 Robert J. Lieber andamatzia Baram The Strategies of Terrorism 392 Andrew H. Kydd and Barbara F. Walter From The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One 416 David Kilcullen When Is It Right to Fight? 444 Gareth Evans
viii CONTENTS From The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use offorce 459 Martha Finnemore 10 International Political Economy 484 The Nature of Political Economy 485 Robert Gilpin Globalization, Development, and International Institutions: Normative and Positive Perspectives 493 Helen V. Milner From Why Globalization Works 516 Martin Wolf What Is the Problem with Natural Resource Wealth? 542 Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Joseph E. Stiglitz From Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy 554 Joseph E. Stiglitz Transnational Issues 574 The Healers: Triumph and Tragedy 575 William Easterly Universal Truths: Human Rights and the Westernizing Illusion 592 Amartya Sen Trials and Errors: Principle and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice 596 Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri The Tragedy of the Commons 616 Garrett Hardin Credits 627