本书出自国际关系领域一位**学者之手，它巧妙地把历史与理论结合起来，帮助学生获得一个全面的、有深度的分析当今世界问题和困境的框架。这部书使用了*新的学术研究成果，考察了我们在新时代所面对的国际问题，并且为学生提供了认识和解释未来世界事态发展的工具。
本书已是第5版，现由我社推出这部经典著作的英文影印版，希望能为我国致力于国际关系理论领域研究的学者和爱好者们提供*新的**手资料。
在第5版中新增加了关于伊拉克战争的讨论、布什的新****政策、“软权力”的更深层讨论等内容。

What Is International Politics?
WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS?
The world has not always been divided into a system of separate states. Over the cen¬turies there have been three basic forms of world politics. In a world imperial system, one government controls most of the world with which it has contact. The greatest example in the Western world was the Roman Empire. Spain in the sixteenth cen¬tury and France in the late seventeenth century tried to gain similar supremacy, but they failed. In the nineteenth century, the British Empire spanned the globe, but even the British had to share the world with other strong states. Ancient world empires—the Sumerian, the Persian, the Chinese—were actually regional empires. They thought they ruled the world, but they were protected from conflict with other empires by lack of communication. Their fights with barbarians on the peripheries of the empire were not the same as wars among roughly equal states.
A second basic form of international politics is a feudal system, in which human loyalties and political obligations are not fixed primarily by territorial boundaries. Feudalism was common in Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire. An individual had obligations to a local lord, but might also owe duties to some distant noble or bishop as well as to the pope in Rome. Political obligations were determined to a large extent by what happened to one's superiors. If a ruler married, an area and its people might find their obligations rearranged as part of a wedding dowry. Townspeople born French might suddenly find themselves made Flemish or even English. Cities and leagues of cities sometimes had a special semi-independent status. The crazy quilt of wars that accompanied the feudal situation were not what we think of as modern territorial wars. They could occur within as well as across territories and were related to these crosscutting, nonterritorial loyarties and conflicts.
A third form of worl
…… 引进和交流，是国际研究诸学科发展壮大所不可或缺的环节和纽带。没有引进和交流，学术就难以活跃，也不易创新。每一位从事世界政治与国际关系研究的学者、每一位学习世界政治与国际关系的学生，无不深感阅读外文原文文献的重要性，他们都深知，原文的报刊、教材和专著，是获取*新国际信息、*新理论论争、*新参考资料的必不可少的重要来源，而获得这样的原文文献的机会是不均等的，因此，他们极其渴望更为方便地直接接触到原文文献。而在目前不易直接在国内购买原版书籍的情况下，采取原版影印的方式引进国际上的**教材和专著是解决问题的一条捷径，如此就可以使国内普通读者方便地获得*有权威的原文读物，从而可以快速了解国外同行的教学和学术成果，为深入学习和研究、为开展有效的对外学术交流、也为国际关系诸学科在我国的创新和发展，打下更坚实的基础。
这套“世界政治与国际关系原版影印丛书”，正是基于上述认识而组织出版的，并且得到了我国国际关系教学与科研领域*有权威的专家教授们的认可，他们分别来自于北京大学国际关系学院、复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院、中国人民大学国际关系学院、外交学院、清华大学国际问题研究所、中国社会科学院世界经济与政治研究所、中共**党校战略研究所等单位，作为本套丛书的学术顾问，他们愿意向我国该学科及相关领域的广大学者和学生共同**这套丛书。
本丛书**批先行选入了一些经典文献选读性质的国外**教材，也包括美国大学中的一些知名国际关系学教员所编著的教材，内容主要在国际关系理论方面，也包括国际政治经济学和比较政治学方面的**教材。它们皆可称为原文中的精品，值得研读和收藏，不仅如此，由于它们本身在国外的大学课堂里都是应用较广的教材和读物，所以特别适合作为我国国际关系与世界政治专业大学教学中的参考读物，甚至可以直接作为以外文授课的课堂教材。在每本书的前面，我们都邀请国内比较权威的专家学者撰写了精彩的导论，以指导读者更好地阅读和使用这些文献。
根据读者的反映和我国建设中的国际关系学科的发展需要，我们决定在上述影印图书的基础上，开辟一个“学术精品系列”，以让我国国际关系专业的学者和学生有机会更方便地接触到那些堪称“精品中的精品”的学术书籍，比如摩根索的《**间政治》、沃尔兹的《国际政治理论》和基欧汉的《权力与相互依赖》等等。这些作品大都已经有了中文译本，而且有的还不只一种中译本，它们的学术和学科地位是不言而喻的，在中国读者心目中也已有着持久深入的影响，正因如此，在这个新系列的每一种图书前面我们没有再烦请学术顾们撰写导言。我们相信，如此有生命力的作品，当它们以新的面目出现在中国读者面前时，一定会引发新的阅读感受、新的理论遐思和新的战略决策思考。

FOREWORD
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 Is THERE AN ENDURING LOGIC OF CONFLICT IN WORLD
POLITICS?
What Is International Politics?
Two Views of Anarchic Politics Building Blocks
The Peloponnesian War
A Short Version of a Long Story
Causes and Theories
Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future
Ethical Questions and International Politics
Limits on Ethics in International Relations
Three Views of the Role of Morality Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings Further Readings
CHAPTER 2 ORIGINS OF THE GREAT
TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONFLICTS
International Systems and Levels of Causation
Levels of Analysis
Systems: Structure and Process
Revolutionary and Moderate Goals and Instruments
The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth Century System
A Modern Sequel
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
Liberalism Revived
Liberal Democracy and War
Definition of National Interests Variations in Foreign Policies
Counterfactuals
Plausibility
Proximity in Time
Relation to Theory
Facts
Chronologies: Europe Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings further Readings
CHAPTER 3 BALANCE OF POWER AND WORLD WAR I
Balance of Power Power
Balances as Distributions of Power
Balance of Power as Policy
Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems Alliances
The Origins of World War I
Three Levels of Analysis
Was War Inevitable?
What Kind of War?
The Funnel of Choices
Lessons of History Again
Chronology:The Road to World War I
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 4 THE FAILURE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND WORLD WARII
The Rise and Fall of Collective Security
The League of Nations
The United States and the League of Nations
The Early Days of the League
The Manchurian Failure
The Ethiopian Debacle
The Origins of World War II
Hitler’s War?
Hitler's Strategy
The Role of the Individual
Systemic and Domestic Causes
Was War Inevitable?
The Pacific War
Appeasement and Two Types of War
Chronology:Between the World Wars
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER5 THE COLD WAR
Deterrence and Containment
Three Approaches to the Cold War
Roosevelt's Policies
Stalin's Policies
Phases of the Conflict
Inevitability?
Levels of Analysis
U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War
Containment
The Rest of the Cold War
The End of the Cold War
The Role of Nuclear Weapons
Physics and Politics
Balance of Terror
Problems of Nuclear Deterrence
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Moral Issues
Chronology: The Cold War Years
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 6 INTERVENTION, INSTITUTIONS, AND REGIONALAND ETHNIC CONFLICTSEthnic Conflicts
Intervention and Sovereignty
Defining Intervention
Sovereignty
Judging Intervention Exceptions to the Rule Problems of Self-Determination Motives, Means, and Consequences
International Law and Organization
Domestic Analogies
Predictability and Legitimacy
The Suez Canal Crisis
U.N. Peacekeeping and Collective Security
Conflicts in the Middle East
The Questions of Nationalism
The Arab-Israeli Conflicts
The 1991 Gulf War and Its Aftermath Chronology: The Arab-Israeli Conflict Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 7 GLOBALIZATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE
The Dimensions of Globalization
What's New About Twenty-first Century Globalization?
Political Reactions to Globalization
Economic Interdependence and Conflict
The Concept of Interdependence
Sources of Interdependence
Benefits of Interdependence
Costs of Interdependence
Symmetry of Interdependence
Leadership in the World Economy
Realism and Complex Interdependence
The Politics of Oil
Oil as a Power Resource
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 8 THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION, TRANSNATIONAL
ACTORS, AND THE DIFFUSION OF POWER
Power and the Information Revolution
Lessons from the Past
A New World Politics?
Sovereignty and Control
Transnational Actors
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Transnational Terrorism
Information and Power Among States
The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence
The Information Revolution and Democratization
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 9 A NEW WORLD ORDER?
Alternative Designs for the Future
The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations?
Technology and the Diffusion of Power
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Transnational Threats and the Concept of Security
A New World Order?
Future Configurations of Power
The Prison of Old Concepts
The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order
Thinking About the Future
Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings Further Readings
GLOSSARY
CREDITS
INDEX
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