The global agenda: issues and perspectives

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Charles W. Kegley, Jr.

University of South Carolina

Eugene R. Wittkopf

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The Global agenda.

1. International relations—Addresses, essays,

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Prefac e

There is no scientific antidote [to the atomic bomb], only education. You've got

to change the way people think. 1 am not interested in disarmament talks be￾tween nations. . . . What 1 want to do is to disarm the mind. Alter that,

everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental

disarmament is international education.

— Albert Einstein

Constancy and change seem to describe most accurately the nature of contem￾porary international polities. Global transformations and emergent trends

have produced new issues and cleavages in international polities.

Simultaneously, traditional controversies continue to color relations among

nations. Hence the study of contemporary international politics must give at￾tention to the factors that produce change and also to those thai promote

changelessness in relations among world political actors. Our purpose in

gathering together this collection is to make available between the covers of a

single volume, for students of international relations, what we believe to be the

best introduetion to the contemporary issues that animate contemporary world

politics and, also, an introduction to the major analytical perspectives scholars

have fashioned to make these issues comprehensible. It seems to us, that to a

greater or lesser degree, coverage of both these elements is missing in standard

texts (by design and necessity), and that a supplementary anthology is the

logical place for them.

The Global Agenda: Issues and Perspectives categorizes readings into four

"baskets" that build on the distinction between "high politics" (peace and

security issues) and "low politics" (non-security issues). The criteria that guided

the selection of particular articles within each part and the rationale that

underlies the organization of the book are made explicit in our introductions

to each part, which are designed to help students connect individual readings

to common themes.

The innovative organization of I lie book is intended to capture the diversity

of global issuer and patterns of interaction that presently dominate the atten￾tion of world political actors and that precipitate policy responses. The

thematic org mization of the book allows treatment of the breadth of global

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classic theoretical formulations to the newer conceptual foci that have arisen

to account for recent developments in world affairs. In preparing the volume

in this manner we have proceeded from the assumption that there is need lor

educational materials that balance concern for substance with process and for

description with theoretical exposition, and that expose a variety of normative

interpretations without advocating any particular one.

Several people contributed to the development of this book. We wish

especially to acknowledge the contributions of Lawrence M. Jackson, John

\V. Outland, Lucia Wren Rawls, Joseph Sausnock, and Thomas J. Volgy. The

helpful suggestions of a number of anonymous reviewers is also gratefully

acknowledged. At Random House we are indebted to Bertrand W. Lummus

and Fred H. Burns for their support and professional assistance.

Charles W. Kegley, Jr.

Eugene R. \\ mkopf

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