Titlebook: Issues in World Politics; Brian White,Richard Little,Michael Smith Textbook 1997Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997 conflict.

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States and Statehood,e tiny city states of Monaco and the Holy See all the way up to the Russian Federation and China, respectively the world’s largest and most populous states. During the twentieth century, there have been several great waves of ‘state creation’: in the period after the First World War, again after the

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Trade, Money and Markets,y (The Economist, 1995a, p. 12). In contrast, total government foreign reserve holdings — the money by which governments enter the game of market speculation and intervention — rested at less than the equivalent of two days of this turnover in the foreign exchange market (Walter, 1993, p. 199) and t

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Regions and Regionalism,wed salience of regional conflicts such as those in the Balkans and the Gulf region, or in the former Soviet Union. At the same time, there has been a sharpened awareness of the possibilities of regional cooperation and institution-building. For example, a World Trade Organization (WTO) study publis

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Arms and Arms Control,e discussed in the context of security, economic and ethical issues. What quickly becomes apparent is that conventional weapons are the ‘odd man out’. Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have traditionally been the targets of national and international arms control efforts, are regarded as having impo

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Migration and Refugees, Increasing racism and neo-Nazi violence in Germany, ‘ethnic cleansing’ in former Yugoslavia and police brutality towards blacks in Los Angeles, are all recent examples of problems that are linked to migration in one way or another. Migration, however, is as old as humanity itself, and has played a

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