引进和交流，是国际研究诸学科发展壮大所不可或缺的环节和纽带。没有引进和交流，学术就难以活跃，也不易创新。每一位从事世界政治与国际关系研究的学者、每一位学习世界政治与国际关系的学生，无不深感阅读外文原文文献的重要性，他们都深知，原文的报刊、教材和专著，是获取最新国际信息、最新理论论争、最新参考资料的必不可少的重要来源，而获得这样的原文文献的机会是不均等的，因此，他们极其渴望更为方便地直接接触到原文文献。而在目前不易直接在国内购买原版书籍的情况下，采取原版影印的方式引进国际上的优秀教材和专著是解决问题的一条捷径，如此就可以使国内普通读 者方便地获得最在权威的原文读物，从而可以快速了解国外同行的教学和学术成果，为深入学习和研究、为开展有效的对外学术交流、也为国际关系诸学科在我国的创新和发展，打下更坚实的基础。

Preface
About the Authors
Part I ANALYZING WORLD POLITICS
1 WORLD POLITICS:LEVELS OF ANALYSIS,CHOLCE,AND CONSTRAINT
2 THINKING ABOUT WORLD POLITICS:THEORY AND REALITY
3 INTERNATIONAL ACTORS:STATES AND OTHER PLAYERS ON THE WORLD STAGE
4 THE WORLD SYSEM:INTERNATIONAL STRUCTURE AND POLARITY
5 RELATIONS BETWEEN STATES:POWER AND INFLUENCE
6 DOMESTIC SOURCES OF FOREIGN POLICY:SOCIETY AND POLITY
7 INDIVIDUALS AND WORLD POLITICS:ROLES ,RERCEPTIONS,AND KECISION MAKING
Part II INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND COORERATION
8 MILITARY CONFLICT;WHY STATES AND OTHER ACTORS RESORT TO FORCE
9 THE SECURITY DILEMMA:ARMAMENT AND DISARMAMENT
10 INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATION
11 CAUSES OF PEACE AND NONVIOLENT TRANSFORMATION
Part III INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
12 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE
13 INTERDEPENDENCE AND ECONOMIC ORDER
14 REGIONAL ECONOMIC IN TEGRATION AND GLOBALIZATION
15 DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT:THE NORTH-SOUTH GAP
Part IV CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
16 LIMITS OF SOVEREGNTY:HUMANITY AND THE COMMONS
17 WHICH GLOBAL FUTURE?
Glossary