OUTLINE CONTENTS // Detailed Contents // INTRODUCTION 1 11 // PART I INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS, WORLD HISTORY, AND // INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY 15 // 1 Systems, History. Theory, and the Study of International Relations 17 // 2 Competing Conceptions of the International System 35 // 3 Systemic Thinking in World History 49 // 4 The Theoretical Toolkit of this Book 68 // 5 Establishing Criteria for International Systems 90 // PART II SYSTEMS IN PRE-INTERNATIONAL WORLD HISTORY 111 // Introduction to Part II 111 // 6 The Origins of Pre-international Systems 115 // 7 The Transition from Pre-international to International Systems 134 // Conclusion to Part II 160 // PART III THE RISE AND INTERLINKAGE OF MULTIPLE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS IN THE ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL WORLD 163 // Introduction to Part III l63 // 8 The New Units: City-States, Empires, and Barbarians as the Main Actors of // the Ancient and Classical World 167 // 9 Interaction Capacity in Ancient and Classical International Systems 190 // 10 Process in Ancient and Classical International Systems 216 // 11 Structure in Ancient and Classical International Systems 228 // Conclusion to Part III 239 // xii OUTLINE CONTENTS // PART IV THE ESTABLISHMENT AND EVOLUTION OF A GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM 2 1 // Introduction to Part IV 241 // 12 Units in the Modern International System 243 // 13 Interaction Capacity in the Modern International System 276 // 14 Process in the Modern International System ?00 // 15 Structure in the Modern International
System 330 // Conclusion to Part IV 344 // PART V SPECULATIONS, ASSESSMENTS, REFLECTIONS 347 // Introduction to Part V 347 // 16 Outlook: A Postmodern International System? 349 // 17 What World History Tells us about International Relations Theory 369 // 18 What International Relations Theory Tells us about World History 386 // 19 Reflections 407 // References // Glossary // Index // 417 // 440 // 443