With an in-depth look at sixteen contemporary issues ranging from world peacekeeping to climate change, this proven reader asks important, timely questions—none with easy answers: Can India match China's economic growth? Is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obsolete? Should the United States scale back efforts to export democracy to the Middle East and elsewhere? To facilitate sound analysis, each chapter explores who the players are, what’s at stake, why recognizing past and current developments is so crucial to the future, and includes the following special features: a pro/con box that examines two competing sides of a single issue question; a detailed chronology; an annotated bibliography with web resources; plus photos, charts, graphs, and maps.

Conflict, Security, and Terrorism
1. Rethinking Foreign Policy
2. Anti-Americanism
3. Nuclear Proliferation
4. World Peacekeeping

Human Rights
5. Torturing Terror Suspects
6. Ending Poverty in Africa
7. Muslims in Europe

Health and the Environment
8. Energy Nationalism
9. Curbing Climate Change
10. Ecotourism

Democratization
11. Cuba’s Future
12. Afghanistan on the Brink

International Political Economy
13. The New Europe
14. India Rising
15. Emerging China
16. Fair Trade Labeling

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“Global Issues provides an inclusive collection of topics and issues central to understanding the complexities of global political economy. The chapters provide for background information as well as more in depth analysis of current issues and events facing people everywhere. My students have found this book readable, informative, and stimulating, helping them to bridge the gap between theory and the study and practice of global interactions. Anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of burning global issues will find this comprehensive book very instructive and helpful.”

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