Wal i: OXFORD GLOBALIZATION OF WORLD PO IE | cL KE S SECOND EDITION An introduction to international relations JOHN BAYLIS & STEVE SMITHThe Globalization of World Politics An introduction to international relations Second Edition Edited by John Baylis and Steve Smith OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS(iii. OXFORD ‘UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 Sor ‘Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, ‘and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karach! Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumba! 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Enquirles concerning reproduction ‘outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, ‘Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer, British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0-19-878263-2 1098765432 ‘Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bath Press Ltd., Bath, Avon. Editors’ preface The first edition of this book proved to be much more successful than either of the editors expected. We hoped that a text that combined history, theory, structure, and process, together with contemporary international issues, would prove popular with students and their teachers. What we did not expect was that the book would be adopted as a major text in such a short time in a wide range of international/ world politics courses in thirty-three countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Denmask, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, South Africa, Japan, Brazil, and India. We have also been greatly heartened by all the very helpful comments we have received from teachers in many of these countries. Some of these were solicited by our publishers and some have been sent to us quite independently. The overwhelming judgement has been that the book ‘works’ in the contemporary teaching environment, Teachers liked the combination of history and theory, in particular, and students found the chapters interesting, easy to understand and, to use a hackneyed phrase, ‘user-friendly’, We also received some very ‘useful suggestions on how the book could be made even better. In the light of these comments we decided to use much the same structure and format for the second edition, while at the same time bringing the text up to date and adding some new material which we, and a number of our reviewers, felt had been neglected in the first edition. In modifying the structure the main change is that we have added a fifth section containing two new chapters on ‘Globalization in the future’. We have done this to strengthen the globalization theme (which has also been enhanced in the rewriting of all the chapters) and to provide a more effective conclu- sion to the book, We have also added a number of other new chapters, In Part One, the history has been brought up to date with a chapter on ‘International history since 1989” and in Part Four we have added a chapter on ‘The communications and Internet, revolution’ to highlight the importance of contemporary global communications. The chapters on ‘International political economy in the age of globalization’ and ‘Regionalism and integration’ (now ‘European and regional integration’) have been completely rewritten by different contributors while a new chapter in Part Two on ‘Contemporary mainstream approaches’ has been added, Another chapter in Section ‘Two entitled ‘New approaches to international theory’ has undergone significant rewriting and {s now titled ‘Reflectivist and constructivist approaches to inter- national theory’. Readers of the first edition will also note that we have modified the titles of a number of chapters: ‘Marxist theories of international relations’ (in place of “World system theory’)/and ‘The United Nations and international order’ (rather than ‘International organization’). Finally, we have added more links to the Web at the end of chapters (again to emphasize the globalization theme), which we hope will encourage students to use the new, exciting technology available to them, to further their studies and acquire new transferable skills—so essential in the new (globalized) world we live in!