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Global Issues, Tangled Webs: Transnational Concerns in an Interconnected World illustrates how important issues such as climate change, refugee crises, food supply chains, global diseases, transnational crime and more are linked to and affected by one another. It also explores how the actions of governments and organizations impact these interrelated issues. Global Issues,
Tangled Webs offers a different approach to global politics, examining these complex issues that are common problems and exploring cooperative solutions to them.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface: Explaining the Book
- Chapter 1: Understanding the International System
- Chapter 2: The Webs of Transnational Issues: An Introduction
- Chapter 3: Human Population and the Future of World Politics
- Chapter 4: Human Migration: Trends and Causes
- Chapter 5: The Environment: Troubling Information, Yet So Essential
- Chapter 6: Disasters: Natural and Human-made Disruptions
- Chapter 7: Food and Water: The Products Upon Which All Life Depends
- Chapter 8: Disease and Public Health
- Chapter 9: Transnational Criminal Networks: Exploiting Vulnerabilities
- Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts: The Challenges of Transnational Issues
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Mark Sachleben is a professor of political science at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, USA. Global politics, international law and organization, and politics and popular culture are his primary fields of teaching and research. He received his PhD from Miami University in Ohio.
Zusammenfassung
Global Issues, Tangled Webs: Transnational Concerns in an Interconnected World provides students with an overview and greater understanding of issues and trends in global politics. Global Issues, Tangled Webs demonstrates how some of the most important issues-such as climate change, refugee crises, food supply chains, global diseases, transnational crime and more-are linked to and affected by one another. It also explores how the actions of governments and organizations impact these interrelated issues. Global Issues, Tangled Webs offers a different approach to global politics, examining these complex issues that are common problems and exploring cooperative solutions to them.
