Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trend and transformation in World politics -- The globe's actors and their relations -- The economic and demographic dimensions of globalization -- Threats to the world -- Realist roads to national and international security -- Liberal paths to world order -- Envisioning your alternative global futures and predicting global transformations.

This book provides a picture of evolving relations among all transnational actors, the historical development that affect's those actor's relationship, and the salient contemporary global trends that those interaction produce.