Edited by two of the most respected international relations scholars, International Politics places contemporary essays alongside classics to survey the field's diverse voices, concepts, and issues. Challenging the reader to use original scholarship to recognize and analyze patterns in world politics, this bestselling reader considers how to effectively understand politics under governments and beyond.
Carefully edited selections cover the most essential topics and are put into conversation with each other to illustrate fundamental debates and differing points of view. Comprehensive and engaging, International Politics offers the best overview of the discipline as well as the forces shaping the world today.
Part 1 Anarchy and Its Consequences
- Power and Principle in Statecraft
- The Consequences of Anarchy
- The Mitigation of Anarchy
Part 2 The Use of Force
- The Political Uses of Force
- The Political Utility of Force Today
- Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Spread
Part 3 International Political Economy and Globallzation
- Perspectives on Political Economy
- the Nature of Globalization
- Critics of Globalization
Part 4 Contemporary Issues in World Politics
- Interstate War and Terrorism
- Civil Wars and Intervention
- Human Rights and Intenational Law
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If the Art and Jervis reader did't exist, someone would have to invent it, but who would do it so well? As an introduction to the excitement of ideas and argument in the field of world politics, this book is unexcelled.
-- Robert O. Keohane --
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
This book is a wonderful starting point for any student interested in learing how international relations scholars think about the world around them.
-- John J. Mearsheimer --
R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago