World Politics : Theory and Practice

Contents: Preface. 1. Real uncertainty and its consequences in politics. 2. Explanations in theory and history. 3. Powerhood. 4. The principle of systemic change. 5. The dynamics of power relations: further sources, especially in internal politics. 6. The theory of statics and the enterprises of quantification. 7. The Zimbabwe Settlement 1976-1979. 8. The Namibia negotiations and the problem of neutrality. 9. The Into-Pakistani conflict: Soviet Mediation at Tashkent, 1966.

The statecraft or politics as we understand today has little changed. It is an art of achieving impossible by subtle means. Its ways and means are many times unacceptable to moralists and philosophers, but the real charm of politics is that it can stoop very low and go up very high at times. The politicians like Kautilya, Shukra, Machiavelli, Bismarck, Meeternich and modern day politicians are all united in certain respects. This book on world politics unravels many marvels of politics which we rarely realise and understand. This book is written is keeping mind of the needs of the students of political science and the budding politicians.