The Globalization of World Politics is the essential text for all International Relations students. With its established authority and reputation, the new edition is an invaluable resource, which provides a clear and insightful introduction to International Relations and acts as a comprehensive point of reference thereafter.
An introductory text for students with no previous knowledge of contemporary world politics. After an overview chapter on the concept of globalization and arguments for and against it, four sections cover the historical background to contemporary world politics, major theories, structures and process of world politics, and leading issues, such as nuclear proliferation, human rights, global trad…
This book provides a major review of the state of international theory. It is focused around the issue of whether the positivist phase of international theory is now over, or whether the subject remains mainly positivistic. Leading scholars analyse the traditional theoretical approaches in the discipline, then examine the issues and groups which are marginalised by mainstream theory, before tur…