Introduction: "IR" interdisciplinary and interprofessional -- Part I : Change and stability in the international system -- The participants in the system -- Diplmacy: old calling, new challenges -- The rules of the international order -- Power and the balancing process -- International political economy -- Regimes and the management of system change -- War and the evolving nature of security -- Part II : Some issues facing a transforming world society -- Peacemaking and the policy process -- Rapid transformation in Eas-West relations -- Basic thinking about North-South relations -- The international debt crisis -- The environment-population-hunger triage -- A just world order?

1. International relations