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Using a world systems approach and developing a theoretical analysis that builds on the leadership long-cycle approach to global international political economy, this book examines the issues of global inequality. The authors focus on the issues of economic growth, technological diffusion, debt, North-South conflict, democratisation and globalization, and demonstrate how and why the cleavages that have characterized the global North and South in the past and present are growing more acute. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international political economy, globalisation, international trade and development

Among approaches to explaining global history, the secular cycles and leadership long cycle schools emphasize much different phenomena. The former stresses processes highlighting demographic pressures and the rise and fall of land powers. The latter focuses on trading states, maritime activities, and economic growth pulsations. While the two research programs seemingly possess little in common, appearances may be deceiving. By elucidating their overlapping emphasis on structured punctuations in demographic/dynastic cycles with significant changes in global political economy, it is possible to show how the two schools of thought are complementary. A more integrated approach, encompassing population, disease, war and economic growth dynamics, should enhance our understanding of changes in global history.

Unreal and unflat worlds -- Interpreting economic growth and development -- Exploring the North-South gap longitudinally -- Geo-economic limits on technological diffusion -- Limits on globalization processes -- Southern debt crises -- Growth and conflict -- Southern democracy in the long run -- Uneven growth processes and prospects.

An introduction to growth, trade, and systemic leadership -- Leading sectors, lead economies, and economic growth -- Economic innovation, systemic leadership, and military preparations for war -- Explaining protectionism: seventeen perspectives and one long-term common denominator -- The timing of protectionism -- Tariffs and trade fluctuations: does protectionism matter as much as we think? -- Systemic leadership and world trade openness -- Trade, regionalization, and tariffs: the correlates of openness in the American long run -- Conclusion: adding things up

Intro -- Coping with Terrorism -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- 1. Contemporary Terrorism: Origins, Escalation,Counter Strategies, and Responses -- Part One. Origins -- 2. Precursors of Terror: Origins of European Extremism -- 3. The Technology of Terror: Accounting for the Strategic Use of Terrorism -- 4. How to Win Enemies and Influence Terrorism: State Repression in Chechnya -- 5. Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism -- Part Two. Escalation and Expansion -- 6. Internationalizing Domestic Conflict: From Local and Political Insurgency TowardGlobal Terrorism. The Colombian Case -- 7. Unspoken Reciprocity: The Effect of Major Shifts in Israeli Policy on International Terrorism -- 8. Unholy Alliances: How Trans-State Terrorism and International Crime Make Common Cause -- Part Three. Counter Strategies -- 9. Rational Counterterrorism Strategy in Asymmetric Protracted Conflicts and Its Discontents: The Israeli-Palestinian Case -- 10.Getting It Right: Understanding Effective Counterterrorism Strategies -- 11. Negotiating with Terrorists and the Tactical Question -- Part Four. Responses -- 12. Who Supports Terrorism? Evidence from Fourteen Muslim Countries -- 13. How Northern Norms Affect the South: Adopting, Adapting, and Resisting the Global War on Terror in South and Southeast Asia -- 14. Winners and Losers in the War on Terror: The Problem of Metrics -- 15. Reacting to Terrorism: Probabilities, Consequences,and the Persistence of Fear -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Terrorism is imprinted on Western society's consciousness. Nearly every week a terrorist attack occurs in the world. The academic world, in attempting to understand terrorism, has often been limited to descriptive work rather than analysis, and has produced surprisingly few mainstream collections on the subject. Coping with Terrorism offers a collection of essays that ask: who are terrorists, what are their goals, who supports them, and how can we combat their tactics? The essays are scholarly, rather than journalistic or ideological, in their approach. As such, they scrutinize a much-discussed and prevalent subject and bring it into the mainstream for international relations.

"Analysts continue to debate the nature of the relationship between globalization and global inequality between states, with some arguing that globalization increases inequality, others saying that the relationship is negative, and still others suggesting that the relationship varies over time. There is actually more overlap in these positions than is apparent - an element underlined by our own argument that globalization's effects can be both positive and negative simultaneously. The authors argue that globalization contributes to intra-Northern convergence while it reinforces North-South divergence. An 1870-2000 time-series analysis of the relationships among trade and financial globalization and North-South inequality supports this prediction, while also finding that the effects of globalization are time dependent." (author's abstract)

"Systemic Theories of Conflict" published on by Oxford University Press.

Scholars often interpret balance of power theory to imply that great powers almost always balance against the leading power in the system, and they conclude that the absence of a counterbalancing coalition against the historically unprecedented power of the United States after the end of the Cold War is a puzzle for balance of power theory. They are wrong on both counts. Balance of power theory is not universally applicable. Its core propositions about balancing strategies and the absence of sustained hegemonies apply to the European system and perhaps to some other autonomous continental systems but not to the global maritime system. Sea powers are more interested in access to markets than in territorial aggrandizement against other great powers. Consequently, patterns of coalition formation have been different in the European system and in the global maritime system during the last five centuries. An empirical analysis demonstrates that counterhegemonic balancing is frequent in Europe but much less frequent in the global system. Higher concentrations of power in the global system lead to fewer and smaller rather than more frequent and larger balancing coalitions, as well as to more frequent and larger alliances with the leading sea power than against it.