Exploring twenty-first-century world politics -- Theories of world politics -- Foreign policy decision making -- Great-power rivalries and relations -- Plight and policy posture of the global South -- Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) -- Promise and peril of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- Trade and monetary issues in a globalized political economy -- Globalization and the disappearance of national borders -- Population politics and the demographics dimensions of globalization -- Ecopolitics and the preservation of the global commons -- Armed conflict between and within states -- Military power and national security in the aged of globalization -- Coercive diplomacy and intervention in a world of vanishing borders -- Realist road to security through alliances, the balance of power, and arms control -- Liberal institutional paths to peace -- Ten questions about twenty-first-century global prospects

1. International relations