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Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 1 (Introducing Global Politics).........................................................6
Chester A. Crocker (2015) The Strategic Dilemma of a World Adrift, Survival: Global Politics and
Strategy, 57:1, 7-30, DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2015.1008292..............................................................14
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 3 (Theories of Global Politics)........................................................16
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 21 (Why Theory Matters)..............................................................21
Smith, S. 2004. Singing Our World into Existence: International Relations Theory and September 11.
International Studies Quarterly 48(3): 499-515....................................................................................22
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 2 (Historical Context).....................................................................24
Westad, Odd Arne (2012) ‘The Cold War and the International History of the Twentieth Century’,
Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Cambridge: CUP., 1-
19 (online with Leiden University Library)............................................................................................30
History and historians.......................................................................................................................30
Politics and economics.....................................................................................................................31
Science and technology....................................................................................................................31
Culture and ideas..............................................................................................................................32
Change..............................................................................................................................................32
Summary..........................................................................................................................................33
Griffiths, Martin and Michael Sullivan (1997), ‘Nationalism and International Relations Theory’,
Australian Journal of Politics and History, 43 (1): 53-66.......................................................................34
Introduction......................................................................................................................................34
Nations, states and nation-states in international relations.............................................................34
Nationalism and world order............................................................................................................34
Conservative containment................................................................................................................35
Liberal dilution..................................................................................................................................35
Conclusion: the dubious discipline of international relations...........................................................36
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 11 (Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament).................................38
Howard, P. 2004. Why Not Invade North Korea? Threats, Language Games, and U.S. Foreign Policy.
International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 805-828................................................................42
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 7 (The Nation in a Global Age).......................................................45
Heywood, Global politics, Chapter 8 (Identity, Culture, and Challenges to the West)..........................49
Snyder, Jack and Karen Ballentine (1996) ‘Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas,’ International
Security, 21, pp. 5-40............................................................................................................................54
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, Nationalist mythmaking....................................................................................................................54
Defining nationalism and myths...................................................................................................54
Imperfect markets and nationalist mythmaking...............................................................................55
Partial monopolies of supply........................................................................................................55
Segmentation of demand.............................................................................................................55
Media institutions and norms.......................................................................................................56
Market forces that promote nationalist mythmaking..................................................................56
Monopolizing Market Segments in the Former Yugoslavia..............................................................56
Rwandan hate radio.........................................................................................................................57
Conditions for Successful Liberalization of the Marketplace of Ideas...............................................58
Prescriptions for an Integrated Marketplace of Ideas......................................................................58
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 15 (Poverty and Development)......................................................59
Tomlinson B. R. 2003. What Was the Third World? Journal of Contemporary History, 38(2): 307-321.
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Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 4 (The Economy in a Global Age)...................................................68
Peet, R. 2009. “Globalism and neoliberalism.” In Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO.
London: Zed Books...............................................................................................................................72
From liberalism to Keynesianism......................................................................................................72
Neoliberalism...................................................................................................................................73
The Washington consensus..............................................................................................................74
The institutional framework.............................................................................................................75
Hegemony and policy discourse.......................................................................................................76
Counter-hegemony...........................................................................................................................77
The rest of the book.........................................................................................................................78
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 10 (War and Peace).......................................................................79
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 13 (Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention).......................83
Breslin, Shaun (2010). ‘Regions and Regionalism in World Politics’, in Mark Beeson & Nick Bisley
(eds.) (2010), Issues in 21st Century World Politics. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 33-
51..........................................................................................................................................................88
European integration and the study of regions in world politics......................................................88
Contextualizing the study of regionalism.........................................................................................89
Region as empire/empire as region..............................................................................................89
Identifying regions........................................................................................................................89
regional identities.........................................................................................................................90
theorizing the study of regionalism..................................................................................................90
states, intergovernmentalism and national interests...................................................................90
regionalism beyond Europe: common enemies, common responses?.............................................91
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, Regionalism, realism and hegemony............................................................................................91
actors and processes: towards new regionalism..........................................................................91
why regionalism matters: still all about the economy?................................................................92
The regional and the global..............................................................................................................92
Regional free trade agreements (FTAs): building blocks or stumbling blocks?.............................92
Conclusions: the future or regionalism(s).........................................................................................92
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 5 (The State and Foreign Policy in a Global Age), 20 Regionalism
and Global Politics)...............................................................................................................................94
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 20 (Regionalism and Global Politics)............................................100
Barnett, J. 2000. “Destabilizing the environment-conflict thesis.” Review of International Studies 26:
271-288..............................................................................................................................................107
Introduction....................................................................................................................................107
Resource wars................................................................................................................................107
Water wars.....................................................................................................................................108
Population, environment and conflict............................................................................................108
The project on environment, population and security...................................................................109
Theoretical deficiencies..................................................................................................................109
History........................................................................................................................................110
The nature of nature..................................................................................................................110
Conflict, instability and security..................................................................................................110
environmental security for whom?................................................................................................110
Conclusions.....................................................................................................................................111
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 9 (Power and Twenty-First Century World Order).......................112
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 22 (Images of the Global Future).................................................118
Sergei Karaganov, ‘The Future World Order’, in: Rossiiskaya Gazeta, September 7, 2017 (Johnson’s
Russia List, 2017, # 183).....................................................................................................................119
Liu Ming, ‘Xi Jinping’s Vision of a Community with a Shared Future for Humankind: A Revised
International Order?’, in: Ren Xiao and Liu Ming, Chinese Perspectives on International Relations in
the Xi Jinping Era. NBR Special report # 85. Washington DC, 2020, pp. 13-23.
https://www.nbr.org/wpcontent/uploads/pdfs/publications/sr85_chineseperspectives_jun2020.pdf
............................................................................................................................................................121
The Tianxia System and Xi Jinping’s Community with a Shared Future for Humankind.................122
Political and Theoretical Implications.............................................................................................122
New Configurations and Approaches in Managing the World Order.............................................123
The Gap between Chinese and Western Frameworks for Global Governance...............................124
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................125
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 12 (Terrorism)..............................................................................126
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, Richard J. 2007. The Core Commitments of Critical Terrorism Studies, European Political Science 6(3):
244 – 51..............................................................................................................................................129
Introduction....................................................................................................................................129
The core commitments of CTS........................................................................................................130
Epistemological commitments...................................................................................................130
Ontological commitments..........................................................................................................130
Ethical-normative commitments................................................................................................130
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................131
Horgan, J. and Boyle, M. 2008. A Case Against “Critical Terrorism Studies”, Critical Studies on
Terrorism 1(1): 51 – 64.......................................................................................................................132
Introduction....................................................................................................................................132
The promise of CTS?.......................................................................................................................132
The problems with CTS...................................................................................................................132
The novelty of the case...............................................................................................................133
Overstating the problem-solving dimension of terrorism studies..............................................133
Reinventing the wheel................................................................................................................134
The straw man of ‘Orthodox Terrorism Studies’.........................................................................135
The issue of policy relevance..........................................................................................................136
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................137
Heywood, Global Politics, Chapter 16 (Global Environmental Issues)................................................138
Christoff, P. 2016. The promissory note: COP 21 and the Paris Climate Agreement, Environmental
Politics, 25(5): 765-787.......................................................................................................................145
Introduction....................................................................................................................................145
The pitted path to Paris..................................................................................................................145
Changing circumstances.................................................................................................................146
The widening frame of climate diplomacy......................................................................................146
United Nations 2014 climate summit.........................................................................................146
China and the United States.......................................................................................................146
The negotiations.............................................................................................................................147
The Paris Agreement......................................................................................................................147
‘One ring to bind them all’? – legal form....................................................................................148
Ambition, mitigation goals, and targets......................................................................................148
Nationally determined contributions..........................................................................................149
Climate finance, compensation, and loss and damage...............................................................149
Differentiation and equity..........................................................................................................149
Future developments.....................................................................................................................149
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