A reader by top scholars; "The Global Agenda" is incisive in its coverage of key concepts, issues and theoretical and prescriptive approaches to the interpretation of world politics. The readings in this top selling book are broad based, balanced, and are categorized into four areas that build on the distinction between high and low politics.

Table of Contents:
PrefacePart I Arms and Influence1 Power, Capability, and Influence in International Politics -- K.J. Holsti2 Power and Interdependence in the Information Age -- Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.3 The Role of Military Power in the Third Millennium -- Bjorn Moller4 War and Its Causes -- Jack S. Levy5 The Obsolescence of Major War -- John Mueller6 Nuclear Weapons Threaten Our Existence -- Paul H. Nitze7 The New Threat of Mass Destruction -- Richard K. Betts8 Terror's New Face: The Radicalization and Escalation of Modern Terrorism -- Walter Laqueur9 The Trouble with Sanctions -- Robert A. Sirico10 The Changing Nature of World Power -- Joseph S. Nye, Jr.Part II Discord and Collaboration11 Models of International Relations: Realist and Neoliberal Perspectives on Conflict and Cooperation -- Ole R. Holsti12 Managing the Challenge of Globalization and Institutionalizing Cooperation Through Global Governance -- David Held and Anthony McGrew, with David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton13 What to Do with American Primacy -- Richard N. Haass14 Building Peace in Pieces: The Promise of European Unity -- Donald J. Puchala15 Managing Conflict in Ethnically Divided Societies: A New Regime Emerges in the 1990s -- Ted Robert Gurr16 The New Interventionism and the Third World -- Richard Falk17 The Coming Clash of Civilizations: Or, the West Against the Rest -- Samuel P. Huntington18 Human Rights: From Low to High Politics in International Relations -- David P. Forsythe19 The Institutional Maintenance of Twenty-First Century World Order -- Harvey Starr20 How Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations Create a System for Peace -- Bruce Russett21 The Reality and Relevance of International Law in the Twenty-First Century -- Christopher C. JoynerPart 3 Politics and Markets22 Three Ideologies of Political Economy -- Robert Gilpin23 Whose "Model" Failed? Implications of the Asian Economic Crisis -- Linda Y.C. Lim24 The World Is Ten Years Old: The New Era of Globalization -- Thomas L. Friedman25 Workers of the World, Now What? -- Kathleen Newland26 Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession -- Paul Krugman27 Dollarization: More Straightjacket than Salvation -- Jeffrey Sachs and Felipe Larrain28 Global Rules for Global Finance -- Ethan B. Kapstein29 The WTO and Nonmarket Economies -- Greg Mastel30 The Brave New Wired World -- Daniel F. Burton, Jr.31 Life Is Unfair: Inequality in the World -- Nancy BirdsallPart 4 Ecology and Politics32 Entering the Twenty-First Century -- John L. Petersen33 Ecology Myths: One Planet, One Experiment -- Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich34 Do We Consume Too Much? -- Mark Sagoff35 Dietary Implications of the Globalization of the Food Trade -- Tim Lang36 Encroaching Plagues: The Return of Infectious Disease -- Laurie Garrett37 Climate Change: Can the North and South Get in Step? -- Seth Dunn38 The Next Doubling: Understanding Global Population Growth -- Jennifer D. Mitchell39 Gray Dawn: The Global Aging Crisis -- Peter G. Peterson40 Environment, Scarcity, and Violence -- Thomas Homer-Dixon41 The Tragedy of the Commons in Global Perspective -- Marvin S. Soroos