1. John T. Rourke Mark A. Boyer
World Politics: International Politics on the World Stage, Brief, Fourth Edition
John T. Rourke Mark A. Boyer
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2. Thinking and Caring About World Politics
Chapter 1
Thinking and Caring About
World Politics

3. The Importance of Studying World Politics

4. World politics and your pocketbook: The effects of international trade on American jobs
Jobs and trade--job gains and losses
Foreign investment and international financial markets

5. The effects of international capital flow
Investment capital
International financial markets

6. Domestic versus defense spending
Guns versus butter--some ambiguity in relationship
Defense sector in the domestic economy

7. World Politics and Your Living Space
Population increase and resource depletion
Pollution and environmental destruction
Global warming
Health

8. World Politics and Your Life
War
Human extinction in nuclear war
Rise in civilian casualties

9. Can We Make a Difference?
Direct action within domestic society
Voting
Getting involved
Issue-oriented groups
Protesting
Donating money

10. The World Tomorrow: Two Roads Diverge

11. Realism and Idealism: Some Travel Notes on Two Roads
Laying out the basics
Realism: The traditional path
Idealism: The alternative path

12. Different approaches to political science
Descriptive approach
Predictive approach
Prescriptive approach

13. The Nature of Politics

14. Realism Influence of Thomas Hobbes Influence of Hans Morgenthau
Neorealism

15. Idealism
Influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Neoidealism

16. The Roles of Power and Justice: Realism as an emphasis on power
Power-based perspective--survival of the most powerful
Inevitability of struggle between nations to secure national interests

17. Idealism as an emphasis on justice
Based on cooperative and ethical standards

18. Prospects for Competition and Cooperation

19. Realist beliefs Place own country's interests first
Practice balance-of-power politics
Achieve peace through strength
Do not waste power on peripheral issues

20. Idealist beliefs Power is not the essence of international relations
Policy should be based on cooperative and ethical standards
Power politics is futile and destructive
Peace is achieved through cooperative relations
Willingness to surrender some sovereignty to international structures promoting cooperation

21. Assessing Reality
Comparing the ability of realism or idealism to explain world history
Competition has dominated
Realpolitik is the order of the day
Clinton, China, and permanent normal trade relations (PNTR)
Both realism and idealism influence current policy

22. How to Study World Politics

23. Political Scientists and World Politics

24. Why political scientists study world politics
Prediction
Description
Prescription

25. How political scientists conduct research
Deductive logic
Traditional observation
Quantitative analysis

26. Levels of Analysis System-level analysis State-level analysis
Top-down approach--international system dominates
State-level analysis
Individual country characteristics determine country's behavior
Individual-level analysis
As humans, with idiosyncrasies
As members of groups
As a species