Contents -- Introduction -- The Task of Politics -- 1. International Politics and the International Political System: An Overview -- The Ubiquity of Politics -- The Identification of the Political System -- Criteria of a Political System: The Function -- The Bailiwick -- The Locus of Decision-Making -- The Subject Matter -- Authority -- The Efficacy of the Political System -- Some Objective Sources of the Political System's Inefficiency -- 2. The Nature of the International Society -- The Relationships between States -- The Stratification of the International Society -- The Cultural Heterogeneity of the International Society -- The Role of Norms in the International Society -- The Weakness of the International Society -- The Lag in Political Organization -- Changes in the International Society -- 3. The Objective Nature of the International Political System -- Sovereignty: The Base of the International Political System -- Social Order and Sovereignty -- The Actors -- The Making of Political Decisions -- The Political Processes -- The Inadequacy of the International Political System -- 4. The Role of Power -- The Nature of Power -- Power and the Political System -- Power and the Inadequacy of the Political System -- Power and the Behavior of States -- Power and Strength -- 5. The Subjective Foundation of the International Political System -- The Nationalist -- The Making of the Nationalist: Habit Formation -- Interest Satisfaction -- Emotional Satisfaction -- The Consequences of Changing Nationalist Behavior -- The Contradictory Behavior of States -- National Communities and International Society -- The Character of a Community -- Society, Community, and the Political System -- 6. The Controls on International Behavior -- The Nature of Controls -- The Control of Foreign Policy Making -- Establishing the Controls -- Kinds of Political Controls.

The Effectiveness of Social Controls -- 7. International Conflicts and Their Settlement -- The Stakes of the Conflict -- Peaceful Change: The Politics -- Interdependence -- Functional Cooperation -- Peaceful Methods for Settling Conflicts -- 8. War and Peace -- The Influence of the Social System -- Man's Traits as Causes of War -- How Can Man's Traits Cause War? -- Interests as Causes of War -- Rational and Nonrational Causes of War -- The Complex Causes of War -- Interests, Community, Integration, and Peace -- 9. Toward a More Adequate International Political System -- Changes in the International Political System -- The Conservative Nature of Social Change -- Trends in the Changes of the International Society -- A Projection of the Consequences into the Future -- Future International Organization -- The Place of the Underdeveloped States -- Notes -- Works Cited in the Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.