With its easy-to-use "framework for understanding," Contemporary International Relations, Sixth Edition, helps readers make sense of the complex puzzle of international actors, interests, outlook, and actions in international relations today. The text confronts readers with our rapidly changing twenty-first-century wold that is increasingly complex, diverse, and interdependent.
Part 1 The Participants' Framework: Actors and In terests in Internatonal Relations
Part 2 The systemic Framework: The Actors in the Internatona system
Part 3 The Perceptual Framework: The Varied View of the Global Community
Part 4 The Instrumental Framework: The Tools of Power in Interntional Politics
Part 5 The Argumentative Framework: Issues of International Publics
Part 6 The Futuristic Framework: Where is the World Going?