Introduction -- Twelve fundamental questions -- Tools for thinking: a few basic concepts -- Power and the nation-state -- The limits of power: symbol and reality -- Groups and interests -- The power of elites -- All-purpose interest groups -- How a state controls itself -- How foreign policy is made -- The foreign-policy sector -- How conflicts arise among states -- Diplomacy and coalitions -- Failures of controls and forms of war -- A new form of warfare? Terrorism: old and new -- Some alternatives to escalation and warfare -- Integration: international and supranational -- Universal general-purpose organizations -- Regional organizations as a path to integration -- Attaining and maintaining integration -- Interdependence, dependence, and increased equality: which way is the world going? -- Some prospects for the future

1. International relations -- Research