World politics : trend and transformation / Charles W. Kegley, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 541-564 and indexes

Exploring twenty-first-century worls politics -- Theories of world politics -- Foreign policy decision making -- Great-power rivalries and relations -- The global south a world of powers -- Nonstate actors in a system of states -- Humanitarian challenges and the protection of human rights -- Globalization and the prospects for global governance -- Money and markets in the global political economy -- Population and resource pressures on the global environment -- The transformation of armed conflict -- Military power, coercive diplomacy, and national security --The realist road to security through alliances, arms control, and the balance of power -- The liberal institutional paths to peace --Twerve questions about twenty-first-century global prospects.