The study of world politics / James N. Rosenau.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Theoretical and methodological challenges. The future of politics -- Building blocks of a new paradigm for studying world politics -- Rigid boundaries : states, societies, and international relations -- Powerful tendencies, startling discrepancies, and elusive dynamics : the challenge of studying world politics in a turbulent era -- Political science and political processes : narrowing the gap? -- The birth of a political scientist -- Intellectual identity and the study of international relations, or coming to terms with mathematics as a tool of inquiry -- Courage versus caution : a dialogue on entering and prospering in IR (co-authored with Ersel Aydinli) -- Comparison is a state of mind -- CFP and IPE : the anomaly of mutual boredom -- The theoretical imperative : unavoidable explication -- Many damn things simultaneously, at least for a while : complexity theory and world affairs -- Muddling, meddling, and modeling : alternative approaches to the study of world politics in an era of rapid change -- Territorial affiliations and emergent roles : the shifting nature of identity in a globalizing world -- Capabilities and control in an interdependent world -- The skill revolution as a dynamic process -- Generational change and Internet literacy -- Pre-theories and theories of foreign policy -- Pre-theorizing about foreign policy in a globalized world -- China in a bifurcated world : competing theoretical perspectives -- Toward single-country theories of foreign policy : the case of the USSR -- National interest --

v. 2. Globalization and governance. The new global order : underpinnings and outcomes -- Ominous tensions in a globalizing world -- Aging agendas and ambiguous anomalies : tensions and contradictions of an emergent epoch -- Global affairs in an epochal transformation -- Material and imagined communities in a globalized space -- Many globalizations, one international relations -- The globalization of globalization -- The complexities and contradictions of globalization -- Toward a viable theory of globalization -- Democracy and globalization -- Think globally, pray locally -- Toward an ontology for global governance -- Governance in the twenty-first century -- Global governance as disaggregated complexity -- Change, complexity, and governance in globalizing space -- Strong demand, huge supply : governance in an emergent epoch.