Perspectives On World Politics, 3rd Edition

Perspectives on World Politics Third edition Perspectives on World Politics has been essential reading for students of international relations since the beginning of the 1980s and this new edition fully updates this key text for the twenty-first century. Focusing on three competing analytical perspectives, the first and second editions provided a clear and coherent organization of the divergent conceptual tools used to study world politics, as well as reflecting key debates and responses to changes in the world arena. This third edition builds on the success of its predecessors by presenting a substantially revised set of readings within essentially the same perspectives: • Power and Security • Interdependence and Globalization • Dominance and Resistance This book also includes a much-expanded fourth section, Perspectives and World Politics, which reflects the methodological and normative debates that have emerged or intensified during the period since publication of the previous edition. Perspectives on World Politics includes forty-three contributions from leading international experts and is essential reading for students and academics with interests in politics and international relations. Richard Little is Professor of International Politics at the University of Bristol. He is a previous editor of the Review of International Studies and chair of the British International Studies Association. He is co-author with Barry Buzan of International Systems in World History (2000) which has been translated into Chinese. Michael Smith is Professor of European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University. He has published widely in the area of international relations and foreign policy analysis. He is co-author with Mark Webber of Foreign Policy in a Transformed World (2002) and co-editor with Christopher Hill of International Relations and the European Union (2005). Perspectives on World Politics Third edition Edited by Richard Little and Michael Smith Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK Third edition published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10016 First published 1980 by Routledge Second edition published 1991 by Routledge Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” © 1980, 1991, 2006 Richard Little and Michael Smith for selection and editorial matter; the publishers and contributors for individual chapters All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-30052-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-68275-0 (OEB Format) ISBN10: 0-415-32275-8 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-415-32276-6 (pbk) ISBN13: 9-78-0-415-32275-1 (hbk) ISBN13: 9-78-0-415-32276-8 (pbk) Contents Acknowledgements Introduction PART I The politics of power and security 1.1 States and statehood K.J.HOLS 1.2 The idea of the state and national security BARRY BUZAN 1.3 Continuity and change in the states system ROBERT H.JACKSON 1.4 The nation-state in the global economy ROBER