Includes bibliographical references.

The Melian dialogue / Thucydides -- Six principles of political realism / Hans J. Morgenthau -- A critique of Morgenthau's Principles of political realism / J. Ann Tickner -- The anarchic structure of world politics / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Rationalist explanations of war / James D. Fearon -- Anarchy is what states make of it / Alexander Wendt -- Legitimacy in international politics / Ian Hurd -- The conditions for cooperation in world politics / Kenneth A. Oye -- Offense, defense, and the security dilemma / Robert Jervis -- Kant, liberal legacies, and foreign affairs / Michael W. Doyle -- Alliances : balancing and bandwagoning / Stephen M. Walt -- Hierarchy and hegemony in international politics / David C. Kang -- The future of diplomacy / Hans J. Morgenthau -- The uses and limits of international law / Stanley Hoffmann -- International institutions : can interdependence work? / Robert O. Keohane -- The four functions of force / Robert J. Art -- The diplomacy of violence / Thomas C. Schelling -- What is terrorism? / Bruce Hoffman -- The fungibility of force / Robert J. Art -- The strategic logic of suicide terrorism / Robert A. Pape -- The shape of violence today / The World Bank -- Getting ready for a nuclear-ready Iran / Henry Sokolski -- A nuclear-armed Iran : a difficult but not impossible policy problem / Barry R. Posen -- The nature of political economy / Robert Gilpin -- The domestic sources of foreign economic policies / Michael J. Hiscox -- The great divide in the global village / Bruce R. Scott -- Globalization of the economy / Jeffrey Frankel -- Why the world isn't flat / Pankaj Ghemawat -- What globalization is and is not / Moisés Naím -- Offshoring : the next industrial revolution? / Alan S. Blinder -- Trading in illusions / Dani Rodrik -- Financial regime change? / Robert Wade -- Why the globalization backlash is stupid / John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge -- The era of leading power peace / Robert Jervis -- The United States and the rise of China / Robert J. Art -- Ending terrorism / Audrey Cronin -- Reflections on intervention / Kofi Annan -- The grand strategies of humanitarianism / Michael Barnett and Jack Snyder -- To the shores of Tripoli? Regime change and its consequences / Alexander B. Downes -- Human rights in world politics / Rhoda E. Howard and Jack Donnelly -- International law : the trials of global norms / Stephen R. Ratner -- Transnational activist networks / Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink -- Transnational organized crime and the state / Phil Williams -- Cyber conflict and national security / Herbert Lin -- After Egypt : the limits and promise of online challenges to the authoritarian Arab state / Marc Lynch -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- International cooperation on climate change : numbers, interests, and institutions / David G. Victor -- The United Nations and international security / Adam Roberts -- Globalization and governance / Kenneth N. Waltz -- The future of the liberal world order / John Ikenberry -- Global trends 2025 / The U.S. National Intelligence Council -- Emerging multipolarity : why should we care? / Barry Posen -- The strategic implications of climate change / Alan Dupont -- Global aging and the crisis of the 2020s / Neil Howe and Richard Jackson -- The inevitable superpower : why China's dominance is a sure thing / Arvind Subramanian.