Introduction to International Relations

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This bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and approachable guide to international affairs. Bringing together decades of combined experience in researching and teaching global politics from three acclaimed scholars, this book introduces you to the key concepts in international relations while equipping you with the tools to successfully analyse the rapidly changing world in which we live. Carefully and pedagogically structured, the book is driven by nuanced enduring questions to support active engagement with the subject matter. It covers everything from war and its causes to the pursuit of peace, the role of non-state actors on the world stage and transnational concerns such as climate change. Thought-provoking boxed features throughout highlight disparities between theory and practice, provide overviews of key research and make use of the influential levels-of-analysis framework.
This third edition is completely updated throughout, including extensive coverage of the latest advances in international relations scholarship and supported by a wealth of contemporary case examples. The text is supported by a rich companion website with study guides, instructor resources and interactive exercises to allow you to consider complicated political decisions for yourself. Introduction to International Relations is the ultimate companion for undergraduate students of politics and international relations in need of an exciting and rigorous introduction to the subject.

Joseph Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University, USA.
G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, South Korea.
Michael Mastanduno is Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, USA.

1. Understanding International Relations
I FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
2. The Emergence of a Global System of States: 1500-Today
3. Theories of International Relations
4. The Analysis of Foreign Policy
5. Framing International Relations: The Role of Laws and Organisations
II WAR AND PEACE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY STUDIES
6. War and Its Causes
7. Pathways to Interstate Peace
8. Modern Technology, the Use of Force, and the Practice of International Relations
III WEALTH AND POWER: AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
9. International Economics: Basic Theory and Core Institutions
10. States and Markets in the World Economy
11. Dilemmas of Development
IV CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
12. Non-State Actors and Challenges to Sovereignty
13. The Natural Environment and International Relations
14. Facing the Future: Six Visions of an Emerging International Order

“A must have for undergraduate students and instructors.” —Keith Smith, King’s College London, UK“An almost canonical introduction to our discipline.” —Thomas Sommerer, Stockholm University, Sweden

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