Politika Globale dhe Regjionale

CHAPTER 7: GLOBAL POLITICS
Idealism as a view of international politics based on the perspective of moral values and legal norms (pp. 126-8).
Realism as a view of international politics that stresses the role of power and the importance of states as international actors (pp. 128-9).
Pluralism as a view of international politics that emphasises the diffusion of power amongst a number of competing bodies or groups (pp. 129-30).
Marxism as a view of international politics that stresses economic power and the role played by international capital (pp. 130-1).
The cold war as a period during which a bipolar model of world order was widely accepted (pp. 131-3).
Rival unipolar and multipolar versions of twenty-first century world order (pp. 133-7).
Globalization as a complex web of interconnectedness that has important economic, cultural and political dimensions (pp. 137-9).
Rival theories of globalization that associate it either with opportunity, prosperity and the spread of democracy, or with inequality, uncertainty and corporate hegemony (pp. 140-3).
Regionalization as the tendency for nation-states confronted by globalizing trends to collaborate more closely with neighbouring and geographically proximate states (pp. 143-6).
The European Union as the most advanced example of regional integration at an economic and political level (pp. 146-50).
The emergence of global governance as a means of ensuring international order or managing the global economy (pp. 150-2).
The United Nations as the most significant attempt to establish world governance (pp. 152-5).
CHAPTER 8: SUBNATIONAL POLITICS
The nature and respective advantages of centralization and decentralization (pp. 158-9).
Confederations as the loosest and most decentralized type of political union that vests sovereign power in peripheral bodies (pp. 159-60).
Federal systems as a means of sharing sovereignty between central and peripheral institutions (pp. 160-1).
Federalism as a response to nation-building, external threat, geographical size or cultural diversity (pp. 161-2).
The political and institutional features of federal systems (pp. 162-3).
The strengths and weaknesses of federal systems in dealing with centralizing and centrifugal pressures (pp. 164-5).
Unitary systems as systems in which sovereign power is vested in a single, national institution (pp. 165-6).
Local government as government that is specific to a particular locality but has no share in sovereignty (pp. 166-7).
Devolution as the transfer of power from central government to subordinate regional or provincial institutions (pp. 167-9).
The rise of ethnic politics as a response to the decline of nationalism and the emergence of multicultural societies (pp. 169-72).
The rise of community politics as a search for stronger community identities in the face of growing individualism and social fragmentation (pp. 172-3).