Chapter 1. How to Think About World Politics: Realism and Its Critics
John J. Mearsheimer, ?  The Tragedy of Great Power Politics?  
Bruce Russett and John O?  Neal, ?  International Systems: Vicious Circles and Virtuous Circles?  
Alexander Wendt, ?  Constructing International Politics?  
Ann Tickner, ?  Searching for the Princess??  
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Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives: Continuity and Change in World Politics
Paul Schroeder, ?  Historical Reality vs. Neo-Realist Theory?  
Jeffrey Record, ?  The Use and Abuse of History: Munich, Vietnam and Iraq?  
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Chapter 3. Levels of Analysis: The Making of Foreign Policy
Scott D. Sagan, ?  The Causes of Nuclear Proliferation?  
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt with responses from Dennis Ross and Zbigniew Brzezinski, ?  The War over Israel?  s Influence?  
John Mueller, ?  The Iraq Syndrome?  
Steve A. Yetiv, ?  The Iraq War of 2003?  
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Chapter 4. War and Violence in World Politics: The Realist?  s World
Robert Jervis, ?  Theories of War in an Era of Leading-Power Peace?  
Niall Ferguson, ?  The Next War of the World?  
Stephen P. Rosen, ?  After Proliferation: What to Do if More States Go Nuclear?  
John Mueller, ?  Terrorphobia: Our False Sense of Insecurity?  
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Chapter 5. International Law & Organization: The Promise of Liberal Institutionalism
Robert O. Keohane, ?  International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?  
Anne Marie-Slaughter, ?  Leading Through Law?  
Michael Glennon, ?  Why the Security Council Failed?  
Thomas G. Weiss, ?  The Illusion of UN Security Council Reform?  
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Chapter 6. The Human Rights Revolution: The Construction of International Norms
Kathryn Sikkink, ?  Transnational Politics, International Relations Theory, and Human Rights?  
Julie A. Mertus, ?  Raising Expectations?: Civil Society?  s Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy?  
Oona A. Hathaway, ?  Making Human Rights Treaties Work: Global Legal Information and Human Rights in the 21st Century?  
James Kurth, ?  Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq: Legal Ideals vs. Military Realities?  
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Chapter 7. Economic Globalization: The Consequences of Liberal Commercialism
James Fallows, ?  How the World Works?  
Daniel Drezner, ?  Trade Talk?  
C. Fred Bergsten, ?  Meeting the China Challenge?  
Dani Rodrik, ?  Trading in Illusions?  
Niall Ferguson, ?  Sinking Globalization?  
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Chapter 8. Transnational Actors and Issues: The State System Under Stress
Jessica T. Mathews, ?  Power Shift?  
Stephen D. Krasner, ?  Sovereignty?  
David G. Victor, ?  What Resource Wars??  
James Fallows, ?  The Connection Has Been Reset?  
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Chapter 9. Global Futures
Robert Kagan, ?  History?  s Back: Ambitious Autocracies, Hesitant Democracies?  
Thomas L. Friedman, ?  The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention?  
Samuel P. Huntington, ?  The Clash of Civilizations?  
Kishore Mahbubani, ?  The Case Against the West: America and Europe in the Asian Century?  
Swanee Hunt, ?  Let Women Rule?