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Engaging and highly accessible, this reader-friendly text features broad coverage of key principles of international relations, providing a thorough introduction to the discipline while avoiding excessive detail and complexity. International Relations: Perspectives, Controversies, and Readings, Fifth Edition, explores essential concepts such as power politics, war and democracy, human nature, free trade, inequality, globalization, humanitarian intervention, and terrorism. Each chapter features brief, topical coverage presented within a debate framework, challenging students to think critically, consider diverse perspectives, and apply what they have learned to real-world scenarios. The author also includes current, relevant primary source readings, giving students firsthand exposure to the materials and ideas shaping international relations today. Thoroughly revised, the Fifth Edition of this popular text features updated content in nearly every chapter, including the most recent statistics, research, trends, theories, and examples drawn from today's headlines, including chemical weapons in Syria, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the debate over climate change and global resources.
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Table of contents
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface: For the Instructor
- Introduction for the Student: Why Study International Relations?
- Ch 1: Change and Continuity in International History
- Ch 2: Contending Perspectives on International Politics
- Ch 3: Power Politics
- Ch 4: War and Democracy
- Ch 5: War and "Human Nature"
- Ch 6: Free Trade
- Ch 7: The IMF, Global Inequality, and Development
- Ch 8: Globalization and Sovereignty
- Ch 9: International Law
- Ch 10: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention
- Ch 11: Nuclear Proliferation
- Ch 12: International Terrorism
- Ch 13: The Global Commons
- Index