This eight volume set provides comprehensive coverage of the factors that determined the evolution of world international political system in the twentieth century. It comprises nearly 150 thematically organized articles selection by Michael Cox and combines to provide an unparalleled resource with both historical depth and contemporary relevance.

VOLUME I: THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS 1815-1945 Section 1: Balance of Power? The 19th century international order Did the Vienna Settlement Rest on a Balance of Power? - Paul W. Schroeder The 19th Century International System: Changes in the Structure - Paul W. Schroeder A.J.P. Taylor's International System - Paul W. Schroeder Paul Schroeder's International System: The View From Vienna - H. M. Scott The Theoretical Foundations of Paul W. Schroeder's International System - Jack S. Levy The European State System in the Modern World - Alan Sked Section 2: From Order to War: 1914 The First World War and the International Power System - Paul M. Kennedy Perceptions of the Security Dilemma in 1914 - Jack L. Snyder Why Cooperation Failed in 1914 - Steven van Evera Perceptions of Power - William C. Wohlforth Russia in the Balance of Power pre-1914 The Elusive Explanation - Peter Gellman Balance of Power "Theory" and the Origins of World War I Section 3: The Twenty Years' Crisis: 1919-1939 The Great Powers and the New International System: 1919-1923 - Carole Fink Is There a New International History of the 1920s? - Jon Jacobson The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939: Why a Concert Didn't Arise - Randall L. Schweller Deterrence in 1939 - Alan S. Alexandroff and Richard Rosecrance Political Science Perspectives - Robert Jervis New Perspectives on Appeasement: Some Implications for International Relations - J.L. Richardson The Two Postwar Eras and the Conditions for Stability in Twentieth-Century Western Europe - Charles S. Maier VOLUME II: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COLD WAR Section 1: The Cold War as a System Was the Cold War a Security Dilemma? - Robert Jervis Ideology and the Cold War - Mark Kramer The Rise and Fall of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective - Richard Ned Lebow The Cold War: What Do "We Now Know"?' - Melvyn P. Leffler Section 2: Prediction and the End of the Cold War The Future as Arbiter of Theoretical Controversies - James Lee Ray and Bruce Russett Predictions, Explanations and the End of the Cold War The End of the Cold War - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Predicting an Emerging Property The End of the Cold War and Why We Failed to Predict It - Michael Cox Section 3: Explaining the End of the Cold War Soviet Reform and the End of the Cold War - Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry Explaining Large-Scale Historical Change The Long Peace, the End of the Cold War and the Failure of Realism - Richard Ned Lebow China as a Factor in the Collapse of the Soviet Empire - Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Reagan, Gorbachev and the Emergence of "New Political Thinking" - Robert G. Patman Human Rights Ideas, the Demise of Communism, and the End of the Cold War - Daniel C. Thomas Power, Globalization and the End of the Cold War - Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth Power, Ideas, and New Evidence on the Cold War's End - Robert D English A Reply to Brooks and Wohlforth Explaining the End of the Cold War - Jeremi Suri A New Historical Consensus VOLUME III: THE UNITED STATES: FROM SUPERPOWER TO EMPIRE Section 1: Superpower The "Lion in the Path": the US Emergence as a World Power - Walter Lafeber The Making of Pax Americana - Charles S. Maier Formative Movements of United States Ascendancy The Nature of World Power in American History - Donald W. White An Evaluation at the End of World War II Rethinking the Origins of American Hegemony - G. John Ikenberry Section 2: Hegemonic Decline? The Mysterious Case of Vanishing Hegemony; Or, Is Mark Twain Really Dead? - Bruce Russett American Hegemony - Stephen Gill Its Limits and Prospects in the Reagan Era The Persistent Myth of Lost Hegemony - Susan Strange The U.S. - Decline or Renewal? - Samuel P. Huntington American Decline and the Great Debate - Michael H. Hunt a Historical Perspective Section 3: Unipolarity The Unipolar Moment - Charles Krauthammer The Unipolar Illusion - Christopher Layne Why New Great Powers Will Rise Still the American Century - Bruce Cumings Whatever Happened to American Decline? - Michael Cox International Relations and the New United States Hegemony' Section 4: Empire? A Most Interesting Empire - Anders Stephanson The Empire's back in Town - Michael Cox or America's Imperial Temptation Again American power and the Empire of Capitalist Democracy - G. John Ikenberry New Rome - Andrew J Bacevich New Jerusalem In Defense of Empires - Deepak Lal VOLUME IV: GLOBALIZATION Section 1: Restarting Globalization after World War II - Shale Horowitz Structure, Coalitions, and the Cold War Globalization and the End of the Old Order? - David Held and Anthony McGrew Globalization and the Prospects for World Order The Globalization Challenge - James Mittelman Surviving at the Margins Has Globalization ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State? - Michael Mann Global Markets and National Politics - Geoffrey Garrett Collision Course or Virtuous Circle? Understanding Late-Twentieth-Century Capitalism - Don D. Marshall Reassessing the Globalization Theme Section 2: Globalization: Myths The Myth of the 'Global' Economy - John Zysman Enduring National Foundations and Emerging Regional Realities Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State - Linda Weiss The Global Economy - Myths and Realities - Paul Q. Hirst Section 3: Globalization and International Relations Beyond the Great Divide - Ian Clark Globalization and the Theory of International Relations Globalization and the Study of International Security - Victor D. Cha Global Capitalism and the State - Jan Aart Scholte The Westfailure System - Susan Strange Section 4: Globalization: Challenges How Far will International Economic Integration go? - Dani Rodrik Can Democracy Survive Globalization? - Benjamin R. Barber Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? - Robert Hunter Wade Disaggregated Sovereignty - Anne-Marie Slaughter Towards the Public Accountability of Global Government Networks Sinking Globalization - Niall Ferguson From Sarajevo to September 11 - the Future of Globalization - John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge Behind the Curve - Audrey Kurth Cronin Globalization and International Terrorism VOLUME V: EUROPE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM Section 1: Making and Unmaking the European Order Reflections on the Remaking of Europe - Alan Sharp 1815, 1919, 1945, post-1989 The Tragedy of Central Europe - Milan Kundera Was there a European Order in the Twentieth Century? - Georges-Henri Soutou From the Concert of Europe to the End of the Cold War Section 2: Security Dilemmas after the Cold War Averting Anarchy in the New Europe - Jack L. Snyder NATO after the Cold War, 1991-1995 - Kori Schake Institutional Competition and the Collapse of the French Alternative The American Dimension - Valur Ingimundarson Section 3: From Community to Union - Britain, Germany and the Reinforcement of US Hegemony in Europe in the 1990s Negotiating the Single European Act - Andrew Moravcsik National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community State Interests and Institutional Rule Trajectories - Joseph M. Grieco A NeoRealist Interpretation of the Maastricht Treaty and European Economic and Monetary Union Europe after the Cold War - William Wallace Interstate Order or Post-Sovereign Regional System? Section 4: European Identity National Identity and the Idea of European Unity - Anthony D. Smith A European Identity. To the Historical Limits of a Concept - Bo Strath Normative Power Europe - Ian Manners a Contradiction in Terms? Europe's Postmodern Identity - Peter van Ham A Critical Appraisal To Euro or Not to Euro? - Thomas Risse, Daniela Engelmann-Martin, Hans-Joachim Knopf and Klaus Roscher The EMU and Identity Politics in the European Union The Euro and European Identity - Matthias Kaelberer Symbols, power and the politics of European Monetary Union Section 5: European futures Why Expand? - Helene Sjursen The Question of Legitimacy and Justification in the EU's Enlargement Policy Renationalizing or Regrouping? - Christopher Hill EU Foreign Policy since 11 September 2001 Constructing the Common Foreign and Security Policy - Ben Tonra The Utility of a Cognitive Approach Why Europe Needs a Constitution - J rgen Habermas VOLUME VI: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE PACIFIC CENTURY? Section 1: Rivalry and Stability Ripe for Rivalry - Aaron Friedberg Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia The Geography of the Peace - Robert S. Ross East Asia in the Twenty-First Century Set for Stability? Prospects for Conflict and Cooperation in East Asia - Thomas Berger Whatever Happened to the Pacific Century? - Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter Models, Markets and Power - Michael Mastanduno Political Economy and the Asia-Pacific, 1989-1999 The Crisis of Postwar East Asian Capitalism - Barry K. Gills American Power, Democracy and the Vicissitudes of Globalization Section 2: Regionalization Why is there no NATO in Asia? - Christopher Hemmer and Peter Katzenstein Collective Identity, Regionalism and the Origins of Multilateralism Between Balance of Power and Community - G John Ikenberry and Jitsuo Tsuchiyama the Future of Multilateral Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific Japan and Asia-Pacific Security - Peter Katzenstein and Nobuo Okawara Regionalization, Entrenched Bilateralism and Incipient Multilateralism Security Architecture in Asia - Barry Buzan the Interplay of Regional and Global Levels Section 3: Architects of War and Peace Hegemony, Not Anarchy - Peter Van Ness Why China and Japan are Not Balancing US Unipolar Power China, the US-Japan Alliance and the Security Dilemma in East Asia - Thomas J. Christensen Hegemon on the Offensive - Yong Deng Chinese perspectives on US Global Strategy Is China a Status Quo Power? - Alastair Ian Johnston Getting Asia Wrong - David C. Kang The Need for New Analytic Frameworks Will Asia's Past be its Future? - Amitav Acharya VOLUME VII: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD WORLD Section 1: From Empire to Independence Imperial Theory and the Question of Imperialism after Empire - Ronald Robinson The Imperialism of Decolonization - W. M. Roger Louis and Ronald Robinson Imperial History and Post-Colonial Theory - Dane Kennedy Diplomacy and Decolonization - John Darwin Section 2: Dependency or Development? From Social Darwinism to Current Theories of Modernization - Ali A. Mazrui A Tradition of Analysis The Underdevelopment Of Development Literature - Tony Smith The Case of Dependency Theory Requiem or New Agenda for Third World Studies? - Tony Smith Section 3: The Third World Third World States - Werner Levi Objects of Colonialism or Neglect? Why "Third World"? - Leslie Wolf-Philips Origins, Definition, USAGE Section 4: The Third World and International Relations Transforming International Regimes - Stephen D. Krasner What the Third World Wants and Why The Third World in the System of States - Mohammed Ayoob Acute Schizophrenia or Growing Pains Why Europe Matters, Why the Third World Doesn't - Steven van Evera American Grand Strategy after the Cold War Why the Third World Still Matters - Steven R. David Section 5: After the Third World? The End of the "Third World"? - Mark T. Berger Where is the Third World Now? - Caroline Thomas The global politics of development: towards a new research agenda - Anthony Payne What was the Third World? - B. R. Tomlinson VOLUME VIII: BEYOND THE 20th CENTURY Section 1: Pasts Clausewitz Rules, OK? - Colin Gray The Future is the Past - with GPS 9/11 and the past and future of American foreign policy - Melvyn P. Leffler Blasts from the past: proliferation lessons from the 1960s - Francis J. Gavin Section 2: Futures Dare not to Know - Ken Booth International Relations Theory versus the Future Remembering the Future - Utopia, Empire, and Harmony in 21st Century International Theory - William A. Callahan Does Cosmopolitan Thinking Have a Future? - Derek Heater Section 3: Primacy American Primacy in Perspective - Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth The Soft Underbelly of American Primacy - Richard K. Betts Tactical Advantages of Terror Limits of American Power - Joseph S. Nye, Jr. The first failed Empire of the 21st Century - Michael Mann Section 4: West Beyond the West - Michael Cox Terrors in Transatlantia The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of US Primacy - Charles A. Kupchan Section 5: Governance A More Perfect Union? - Michael W. Doyle The Liberal Peace and the Challenge of Globalization Governance in a Partially Globalized World - Robert O. Keohane Will the Nation-State Survive Globalisation? - Martin Wolf Why a World State is Inevitable - Alexander Wendt Section 6: Threats Market Civilization and its Clash with Terror - Michael Mousseau Proliferation Rings - Chaim Braun and Christopher F. Chyba New Challenges to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime