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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Teaching with Global Politics: A New Introduction
• 1 Introduction
• THE QUESTION What does this introduction to global politics do?
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE How do we use illustrative examples?
• GENERAL RESPONSES What sorts of responses might there be?
• BROADER ISSUES What assumptions do we start from?
• CONCLUSION
• 2 How do we begin to think about the world?
• THE QUESTION Thinking and language
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The Syrian refugee crisis
• GENERAL RESPONSES Thought experiments as ways of thinking
• BROADER ISSUES Thinking about thinking
• CONCLUSION
• 3 What happens if we don’t take nature for granted?
• THE QUESTION From environment to biosphere
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Climate change
• GENERAL RESPONSES How do we frame the issue in terms of global politics?
• BROADER ISSUES Challenging carboniferous capitalism
• CONCLUSION
• 4 Can we save the planet?
• THE QUESTION Environmental politics and social movements
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The fossil fuel divestment movement
• GENERAL RESPONSES Can protest movements really change anything?
• BROADER ISSUES Individualisation, governmentality and counter-conduct
• CONCLUSION
• 5 Who do we think we are?
• THE QUESTION Narratives and politics
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Feminist movements in the U.S.
• GENERAL RESPONSES How can we conceptualise identity?
• BROADER ISSUES How does group identification shape (global) politics?
• CONCLUSION
• 6 How do religious beliefs affect politics?
• THE QUESTION The role of religion today
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Islamic states and movements
• GENERAL RESPONSES Do religion and politics mix?
• BROADER ISSUES Culture and religious identities
• CONCLUSION
• 7 Why do we obey?
• THE QUESTION Obedience, resistance, and force
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The revolutions of 1989
• GENERAL RESPONSES Authority and legitimacy
• BROADER ISSUES Thinking about power
• CONCLUSION
• 8 How do we find out what’s going on in the world?
• THE QUESTION The mediation of information
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Changing news representations of war
• GENERAL RESPONSES The media, power, and democracy
• BROADER ISSUES How to read the media
• CONCLUSION
• 9 How does the way we use the Internet make a difference?
• THE QUESTION The Internet and us
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Political uprisings and Internet geopolitics
• GENERAL RESPONSES Regulation, censorship, and rights
• BROADER ISSUES Global futures
• CONCLUSION
• 10 Why is people’s movement restricted?
• THE QUESTION Border crossings
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The US–Mexico border and the immigration crisis
• GENERAL RESPONSES Ideas of states and citizenship
• BROADER ISSUES Cultural racism
• CONCLUSION
• 11 Why is the world divided territorially?
• THE QUESTION Forms of political and geographical organisation
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The development of the European territorial state
• GENERAL RESPONSES The emergence of territory
• BROADER ISSUES Techniques and the future of the territorial state
• CONCLUSION
• 12 How do people come to identify with nations?
• THE QUESTION National affiliations
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The margins of the Chinese nation
• GENERAL RESPONSES Nationalism studies
• BROADER ISSUES Transnationalism and hybridity
• CONCLUSION
• 13 Does the nation-state work?
• THE QUESTION States, nations, and allegiance
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Worlds of unease within the nation-state
• GENERAL RESPONSES Stories of coherent nationhood
• BROADER ISSUES An alternative political imaginary
• CONCLUSION
• 14 Is democracy a good idea?
• THE QUESTION Democracy
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Democracy in Argentina
• GENERAL RESPONSES Democracy, populism and human rights struggle
• BROADER ISSUES Where do we start our thinking about democracy?
• CONCLUSION
• 15 Do colonialism and slavery belong to the past?
• THE QUESTION Slavery: abolition and continuation
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Colonialism and capitalist development in Ivory Coast
• GENERAL RESPONSES The effects of adjustment: deproletarianisation and modern slavery
• BROADER ISSUES Is today’s world postcolonial or neo-colonial?
• CONCLUSION
• 16 How does colonialism work?
• THE QUESTION Colonialism and underdevelopment
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE India and Britain
• GENERAL RESPONSES What is modern colonialism?
• BROADER ISSUES The psychology of colonialism
• CONCLUSION
• 17 How is the world organised economically?
• THE QUESTION From local markets to global political economy
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Formal and informal work
• GENERAL RESPONSES Explaining the politics of economics
• BROADER ISSUES The hidden costs of neoliberalism
• CONCLUSION
• 18 How does finance affect the politics of everyday life?
• THE QUESTION Politics and everyday life
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Finance and the financial crisis
• GENERAL RESPONSES The politics of the financial crisis
• BROADER ISSUES Re-politicising finance, re-politicising everyday life
• CONCLUSION
• 19 Why are some people better off than others?
• THE QUESTION Sources of inequality
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Inequality in the age of neoliberal reform
• GENERAL RESPONSES Liberal and developmental perspectives on inequality
• BROADER ISSUES Historical materialism and the expansion of the global working class
• CONCLUSION
• 20 How can we end poverty?
• THE QUESTION The global poor and campaigns to end poverty
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Modernisation and microfinance in South Asia
• GENERAL RESPONSES From the developmental state to biopolitics
• BROADER ISSUES Alternative visions of modernity
• CONCLUSION
• 21 Why do some people think they know what is good for others?
• THE QUESTION Giving and receiving
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE God’s purpose: early Christian incursions
• GENERAL RESPONSES History’s progress: contemporary interventions
• BROADER ISSUES Diagnosing the need for exclusive knowledge
• CONCLUSION
• 22 Why does politics turn to violence?
• THE QUESTION Mass killing as a cultural phenomenon
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Killing in wartime
• GENERAL RESPONSES Belligerent states
• BROADER ISSUES Language and memory
• CONCLUSION
• 23 What makes the world dangerous?
• THE QUESTION Perceptions of danger
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE Drones in Daykundi
• GENERAL RESPONSES Debating drones
• BROADER ISSUES Discourses of danger
• CONCLUSION
• 24 Can we move beyond conflict?
• THE QUESTION Dealing with seemingly intractable conflicts
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The conflict in Korea
• GENERAL RESPONSES Confrontation and engagement: two approaches to conflict
• BROADER ISSUES Dealing with antagonism
• CONCLUSION
• 25 Who has rights?
• THE QUESTION Whose rights?
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The French headscarf ban and Je (ne) suis (pas) Charlie!
• GENERAL RESPONSES Rights and religion in France
• BROADER ISSUES Bare life, human rights and sovereign power
• CONCLUSION
• 26 Conclusion: What can we do to change the world?
• THE QUESTION Changing what’s wrong with the world
• ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE The Iraq war
• GENERAL RESPONSES No right way forward
• BROADER ISSUES Change and complicity
• CONCLUSION
• List of figures
• List of boxes
• Acknowledgements and permissions
• Index of names
• General index