A broad yet distinctive analysis of the growing political, economic, and social gap existing between the world's northern and southern hemispheres.

Featuring papers selected by the ISA President from the 2006 annual meeting, this upper-level volume examines the genesis of the North-South divide, the ongoing policy problems between developed and lesser developed states, and how these issues influence current and future world politics.

• An upper-level text ideal for academic libraries, think tanks, and libraries of policy institutions
• Organized into three distinct focus clusters:
  Problems afflicting the global South -- trade, development, financial crises, structural adjustment, democratization, human rights, disease;
  Specific conflicts between North and South -- energy, terrorism, weak states, nuclear weapon proliferation;
  Solutions to reduce the North-South gap -- foreign aid programs, global media, democratization, political power in the United Nations, the emerging powers phenomenon, transnational social movements, and Northern foreign policy adjustments
• Tackles the tough questions likely to dominate international relations discourse for decades to come

William R. Thompson is Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His recent books include Globalization and Global History (with Barry Gills, 2006); Strategic Rivalry: Space, Position, and Conflict Escalation in World Poltiics (with Michael Colaresi and Karen Rasler, 2007); and Globalization as Evolutionary Process (with George Modelski and Tessaleno Devezas, 2007) He was the President of the International Studies Association in 2005-2006.

Rafael Reuveny is Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of numerous academic articles, coauthor of Growth, Trade and Systemic Leadership, (2004) with William R. Thompson; coeditor of Trade and Environment, (2005) with John W. Maxwell; and coeditor of Coping with Contemporary Terrorism, forthcoming in 2008. He was the Program Chair of the yearly meeting of the International Studies Association, 2006.