The third edition of this popular Introduction to International Relations text aims to capture the mounting turbulence and complexity surrounding world politics in the last decade of the twentieth century. The authors seek to bridge the gap between academic theory and concepts by containing to develop a theme that the players and relationships that exist throughout the world must be understood before intelligent judgments can be made about international affairs.

International Relations: The Global Condition in the Late Twentieth Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Rochester,J. Martin

Pearson, Frederic S.

Sociology

Mcgraw-Hill College

This is a major revision of our successful introduction to International Relations. The authors seek to bridge the gap between academic theory and applied concepts by continuing to develop the book’s theme: that the complex relationships between the world’s state and non-state players must be understood before one can make intelligent judgments about international affairs. In this way, the book readily appeals to students in many related majors. In this edition, Pearson and Rochester infuse the entire book with a post-Cold War frame of reference. The growing diffusion of power, the growing fluidity of alignments all represent current key trends that are discussed in this edition.

International Relations: The Global Condition in the Twenty-First Century

Pearson,Frederic

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

The third edition of this popular Introduction to International Relations text aims to capture the mounting turbulence and complexity surrounding world politics in the last decade of the twentieth century. The authors seek to bridge the gap between academic theory and concepts by containing to develop a theme that the players and relationships that exist throughout the world must be understood before intelligent judgments can be made about international affairs.

Politics & Government

An informative and engaging survey of the transitional state of contemporary global politics, this book engages readers in critical thinking about some of the most profound empirical and normative questions of our time—particularly how people will be organized politically and will govern their affairs in the 21st century—as it helps to make sense of today's complex, contradictory, and paradoxical trends; suggests how we might best conceptualize world politics in the early 21st century; and reflects on what the future may hold. Offers a compact study of international politics— focusing on a choice number of megatrends (i.e., globalization), and examining many important aspects of international relations (i.e., the politics of problem-solving in security, economic, and environmental issue areas; the growing diffusion of power; the growing fluidity of geo-political alignments; the ever expanding agenda of newly salient issues facing national government; and the growing importance of multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, and other nonstate actors which are increasingly competing with states in shaping outcomes in world politics). Discusses sophisticated theories and concepts (such as the "paradigm debate" in international relations between realist/neorealist, liberal/neoliberal, and other schools); includes endnotes containing numerous citations of various works drawn on by the author. Includes many case studies and examples. For those in the international relations and political science fields, and for anyone concerned about the future of humankind.

Between Two Epochs: What's Ahead for America, the World, and Global Politics in the 21st Century?

Pearson

US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Gulliver's Travails (Dilemmas in World Politics)

Routledge

The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian intervention, and a litany of other concerns on the foreign policy agenda pose complex dilemmas for which there are no simple answers. Through lucid, lively analysis, as well as multiple illustrations and case studies, US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century explores the difficult choices that confront the United States today in a complicated and often dangerous post-Cold War environment. Author J. Martin Rochester engages students in an intelligent examination of American foreign policy past, present, and future, involving them in critical thinking about how foreign policy is made, what factors affect foreign policy decisions and behavior, and how one might go about not only describing and explaining foreign policy but also evaluating it and prescribing solutions.

History

Americas

This book distills the essential elements of world politics, both the enduring characteristics as well as the revolutionary changes that may be altering the very fabric of the centuries-old state system. Author J. Martin Rochester explores all the important topics that one would expect to find in an IR text (war, diplomacy, foreign policy, international law and organization, the international economy, and more) but injects fresh perspectives on how globalization and other contemporary trends are affecting these issues. In addition, the author does so through a highly engaging, lively writing style that will appeal to today's students. Fundamental Principles of International Relations is a tightly woven treatment of international politics past and present, drawing on the latest academic scholarship while avoiding excessive jargon and utilizing pedagogical aids while avoiding clutter. Rochester ultimately challenges the reader to think critically about the future of a post-Cold War and post-9/11 world that is arguably more complex, if not more dangerous, than some previous eras, with the potential for promise as well as peril.

Fundamental Principles of International Relations

Waiting for the Millennium: The United Nations and the Future of World Order (Studies in International Relations)

University of South Carolina Press

The New Warfare (International Studies Intensives)

This book looks at the evolving relationship between war and international law, examining the complex practical and legal dilemmas posed by the changing nature of war in the contemporary world, whether the traditional rules governing the onset and conduct of hostilities apply anymore, and how they might be adapted to new realities. War, always messy, has become even messier today, with the blurring of interstate, intrastate, and extrastate violence. How can the United States and other countries be expected to fight honourably and observe the existing norms when they often are up against an adversary who recognizes no such obligations? Indeed, how do we even know whether an "armed conflict" is underway when modern wars tend to lack neat beginnings and endings and seem geographically indeterminate, as well? What is the legality of anticipatory self-defense, humanitarian intervention, targeted killings, drones, detention of captured prisoners without POW status, and other controversial practices? These questions are explored through a review of the United Nations Charter, Geneva Conventions, and other regimes and how they have operated in recent conflicts. Through a series of case studies, including the U.S. war on terror and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Kosovo, and Congo, the author illustrates the challenges we face today in the ongoing effort to reduce war and, when it occurs, to make it more humane.

The New Warfare: Rethinking Rules for an Unruly World (International Studies Intensives)

Foreign & International Law

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International Relations: The Global Condition in the Late Twentieth Century

International Relations: The Global Condition in the Twenty-First Century

International Relations: The Global Condition in the Late Twentieth Century

Between Two Epochs: What's Ahead for America, the World, and Global Politics in the 21st Century?

US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Gulliver's Travails (Dilemmas in World Politics)

US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Gulliver's Travails (Dilemmas in World Politics)

Fundamental Principles of International Relations

Waiting for the Millennium: The United Nations and the Future of World Order (Studies in International Relations)

The New Warfare: Rethinking Rules for an Unruly World (International Studies Intensives)

The New Warfare (International Studies Intensives)