Pt. I. The Nature of International Relations. 1. Introduction. 2. The Nation-State System and the Nature of Power -- Pt. II. The International Struggle for Power. 3. The East-West Struggle. 4. The North-South Struggle. 5. The Struggle Between Competing Nationalisms in the Middle East: The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Iran-Iraq War. 6. The Military Struggle for Power: War in the Nuclear Age. 7. The Economic Struggle for Power -- Pt. III. The International Struggle for Order. 8. Diplomacy and Political Power. 9. International Law and Political Order. 10. The United Nations System and Political Order. 11. Regionalism and Political Order. 12. The Military Struggle for Order. 13. The Economic Struggle for Order -- Pt. IV. Toward a Theory of International Relations. 14. Perception and Reality in World Politics