Games nations play analyzing international politics - Spanier, John W. (New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981)
Table of Contents: I. Analytic Approaches to the Study of International Politics: 1. Making Sense of International Politics -- 2. The Three Levels of Analysis: A Framework for the Study of International Politics -- II. The State System: 3. Of States and Other Actors -- 4. States and Their Objectives -- 5. The State System and the Security Prosperity Game -- 6. Systemic Structure and Stability from Bipolarity to Tripolarity -- III. The Nature of Power: New Roles and Limitations: 7. Of Power: Relationships and Intentions -- 8. The Strategic Balance and the Role of Coercion -- 9. Crises as Substitutes for War -- 10. Force and the Limits of its Utility -- 11. Economics as an Instrument of Policy -- 12. Multipolarity and Future International Politics -- IV. National Systems and Foreign Policy: 13. National and Elite Styles in Foreign Policy: American and Soviet Perceptions and Behavior -- 14. The Less-Developed Countries: The Primacy of Domestic Concerns -- 15. Imperialism: The Marxist and Devil Versions -- 16. Decision Making and the "Games Bureaucrats Play" -- V. From State System to Interdependence and the "New International Politics": 17. Preserving Peace in the State System: The United Nations, Disarmament, and International Norms -- 18. Modernization, Misperceptions, and the Prospects for Peace -- 19. Peace Through the Transformation of the State System -- 20. Interdependence as a Substitute for Power Politics. -- A Selective Bibliography. A Selective Glossary. Index of Names.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 578-591.
Keywords: International relations