Great Powers and World Order

Charles W. Kegley, Jr. (Ph.D. Syracuse University, B.A. American University) is a past president of the International Studies Association, who has served on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for the last two decades. He holds the title of Pearce Distinguished Professor of International Relations Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, where he was Chairman of the Department of Government and International Studies and Co-Chair, with former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, of the Byrnes International Center. A former Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Kegley previously served on the faculty at Georgetown University, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Texas, Rutgers University, the People’s University of China, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as the editor of The SAGE International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies, and has authored or edited over four dozen books on foreign policy and world politics, including eighteen editions of World Politics: Trend and Transformation, which has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish.Gregory A. Raymond (Ph.D. University of South Carolina, B.A. Park College) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Boise State University, where he was the inaugural holder of the Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs, and served as the founding director of the Honors College, Chairman of the Department of Political Science, and director of the Survey Research Center. A veteran of the U.S. Army and former Pew Faculty Fellow at Harvard University, Raymond has received Boise State’s outstanding researcher and outstanding teacher awards, served on the Idaho State Board of Education’s Higher Education Research Council, and was selected as the Idaho Professor of the Year in 1994 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has published over 100 articles, reviews, and op-ed essays, and has lectured on international issues at universities and research institutes in 22 countries. His work has been supported by grants from the American Political Science Association, the United States Institute of Peace, the United States State Department, and other government agencies.

This book highlights the complexities within the international arena, and forces students to critically think by putting them in the You Decide driver’s seat."

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsPART I: THE VIOLENT ORIGINS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDERChapter 1 Great-Power Struggles for Primacy in the Modern EraThe Westphalian Foundations of the Modern State SystemWhat Are Great Powers?Regularities in Great-Power BehaviorContending Approaches to World OrderBuilding World Order in the Aftermath of Hegemonic WarKey TermsChapter 2 World War I and the Versailles SettlementThe Origins of the First World WarThe Armistice and Arrangements for a Peace ConferenceBalance-of-Power Theory and World OrderWoodrow Wilson and The Liberal Tradition in World PoliticsNational Self-Interest Confronts Wilsonian IdealismThe Versailles SettlementA World in DisarrayKey TermsChapter 3 World War II and the Birth of the Liberal OrderThe Origins of the Second World WarPlanning for a Postwar World OrderSpheres-of-Influence versus Universalist Models of World OrderThe Political Economy of World OrderA World DividedKey TermsPART II: THE FITFUL EVOLUTION OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDERChapter 4 The Cold War and Its ConsequencesThe Origins of the Cold WarThe Course of the Cold WarThe Characteristics of the Cold WarThe Cold War World OrderBeyond the Cold WarKey TermsChapter 5 America’s Unipolar MomentAmerican PrimacyPrimacy and World OrderDemocratic Peace Theory and American Foreign PolicyRethinking State Sovereignty in an Era of GlobalizationAnticipatory Self Defense and Preventive WarThe Twilight of UnipolarityKey TermsChapter 6 Unraveling the Liberal OrderDonald Trump and Conservative Thought on Foreign PolicyThe Jacksonian Turn in American Foreign PolicyPower Without PrincipleKey TermsPART III: FORGING A NEW WORLD ORDERChapter 7 The Range of Great-Power ChoiceViewing System Transformation in Historical ContextGreat-Power Options for Shaping World OrderCoordinated Consultation and World OrderLegitimacy and World OrderKey TermsChapter 8 Rethinking World OrderChange and Continuity in Contemporary World PoliticsCritical Questions for World Order in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Quest for World OrderKey TermsSuggested ReadingsGlossaryNotesIndex