Understanding Global Politics

Contents: Preface. I. Globalisation: Conceptions and Perspectives. 1. Understanding globalisation and its alternative perspectives. 2. Political debates on sovereignty and territoriality, cultural and technological dimension of globalization. 3. Global economy: its significance and anchors of global political economy (IMF, World Bank, WTO, TNCs). 4. Global resistances: global social movements and non governmental organisations. 5. The United Nations organisation in a globalising world contemporary global issues. 6. Ecological issues: historical overview of international environmental agreements, climate change, global commons debate. 7. Proliferation of nuclear weapons. 8. International terrorism: non-state actors and state terrorism post 9/11 developments. 9. Migration and refugees. 10. Feminist perspective in the contemporary international relations. II. Global Shifts: Power, Governance and Processes. 11. Global shifts: power and governance, emerging multi-polarity (BRICS, EU, Japan, India, China and Russia). 12. Revisiting security: the human security dimension