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Introduction to International Relations

Perspectives, Connections, and Enduring Questions

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Introduction to International Relations

Perspectives, Connections, and Enduring Questions

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The second edition of this bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and accessible guide to international affairs. Bringing together the combined decades of experience in researching and teaching global politics of three acclaimed scholars, this text introduces students to what is happening in our complex and rapidly changing world and enables them to analyse those events. Pedagogically driven, the book is structured around enduring questions that reflect the key concepts in world politics. It makes use of the levels of analysis framework and boxed features to highlight connections between theory and practice, aspirations and reality and history and contemporary events. This fully updated second edition includes a brand new chapter on International Organizations, a new feature to give students an insight into the latest academic research, and has been extensively rewritten throughout.

This is an ideal textbook for introductory modules for political science and international relations undergraduate students.

This new edition offers:
- A brand new chapter on International Law and Organizations
- A new Academic Insights feature in every chapter encouraging closer connections with the latest academic research
- New author video debates on thought-provoking questions
- Extensively rewritten chapters to include the latest advances in thinking and contemporary case examples
- A historically-driven, empirical narrative to answer broad enduring questions
- A rigorous analytic approach, covering pluralistic theoretical approaches
- A comprehensive companion website, including videos, author debates, simulation activities, quizzes and teaching tools.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/introduction-to-international-relations. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Understanding International Relations
PART I FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Chapter 2 The Emergence of a Global System of States
Chapter 3 Theories of International Relations
Chapter 4 The Analysis of Foreign Policy
Chapter 5 Framing International Relations: The Role of Laws and Organizations
PART II WAR AND PEACE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY STUDIES
Chapter 6 War and Its Causes
Chapter 7 Pathways to Interstate Peace
Chapter 8 Technology, the Use of Force and Weapons of Mass Destruction
PART III WEALTH AND POWER: AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Chapter 9 International Economics: Basic Theory and Core Institutions
Chapter 10 States and Markets in the World Economy
Chapter 11 Dilemmas of Development
PART IV CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Chapter 12 Non-State Actors and Challenges to Sovereignty
Chapter 13 The Environment and International Relations
Chapter 14 Facing the Future: Six Visions of an Emerging International Order.

Product details

Published Nov 16 2018
Format Paperback
Edition 2nd
Extent 640
ISBN 9781352004229
Imprint Red Globe Press
Dimensions Not specified
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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G. John Ikenberry

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