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100	1		_aWilkenfeld, Jonathan _946087
245	1	0	_aMyth and reality in international politics : _bmeeting global challenges through collective action _cJonathan Wilkenfeld
260			_aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _cc2016.
300			_ax, 180 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aInternational studies intensives
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 153-173) and index.
500			_aPublisher Synopsis:"In his groundbreaking new book, Wilkenfeld brings the research and policy communities together to confront critical global challenges. In addressing climate change, underdevelopment, conflict, and instability, he implores our national leaders to undertake bold steps in a newly collaborative, intentional, and systematic approach. The book offers a blueprint for increased leadership responsibility, clarity of mission, and empowerment of states and individuals. It suggests a way to transform lofty but often vague agendas into concrete, measurable progress."-Henry Waxman, former U.S. Representative (D-CA) "Jonathan Wilkenfeld, one of the leading scholars in international relations over a period of forty years, has written an extremely important, timely, and thought-provoking book. This work provides a perceptive grasp of the key challenges that face the global community in the coming era; it decouples some of the more prevalent myths of how global turmoil can be managed or mitigated; and it offers an insightful and inspiring vision of how we can effectively confront these global challenges. A key message of this book is that, even if we do not feel immediately affected by such issues as continued domestic instability, underdevelopment and inequality, or climate change, these challenges will come back to bite us if we do not take collective action to confront them head on. This is a must read for students, scholars, practitioners of world politics, as well as by people who care about the future of this planet."-Zeev Maoz, University of California, Davis
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Dramatic Gains and Daunting Challenges Chapter 1 Conflict Chapter 2 Ethnic Diversity Chapter 3 Instability, Democracy, and Regime Consistency Chapter 4 Development Chapter 5 Climate Change Conclusion: Global Challenges to Human Security in the Twenty-First Century
520			_aRecent generations have experienced dramatic improvements in the quality of human life across the globe. Wars between states are fought less frequently, and are less lethal. Food is more plentiful and more easily accessed. In most parts of the world, birthrates are down and life expectancy up. Significantly fewer people live in extreme poverty, relative to the overall population. Statistics would argue that the human race has never before flourished as it has in this moment.And yet, even with this progress, we face a number of seemingly intractable challenges to the welfare of both states and individuals, including* Governmental instability undermining the lives of citizens, both within and beyond their borders;* Persistent and recurring intrastate conflict due to ineffective conflict management strategies;* Marginally successful development efforts and growing income inequality, both within and between nations, as a result of uncoordinated and ineffective global development strategies;* Internecine conflict in multi-ethnic societies, manifested by exclusion, discrimination, and ultimately violence, the inevitable consequence of an insufficient focus on managing the inherent tensions in diverse societies; and* Global climate change with the possibility of catastrophic long-term consequences, following an inability to effectively come to terms with and respond to the impact of human activity on our environment.These challenges require a newly collaborative, intentional, and systematic approach. This book offers a blueprint for how to get there, calling for increased leadership responsibility, clarity of mission, and empowerment of states and individuals. It is designed to transform lofty but often vague agendas into concrete, measurable progress. It believes in the capacity of humanity to rise to the occasion, to come together to address these increasingly critical global problems, and offers one way forward.
650		0	_aInternational cooperation _92255
650		0	_aConflict management _xInternational cooperation _946088
650		0	_aHuman security _xInternational cooperation _946089
650		0	_aEthnic relations _xInternational cooperation _946090
650		0	_aDemocratization _xInternational cooperation _946091
650		0	_aEconomic development _xInternational cooperation _932148
650		0	_aClimatic changes _xInternational cooperation _946092
650		0	_aWorld politics _y21st century _913360
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