Introduction to International Relations Perspectives, Connections, and Enduring Questions

The hotly awaited second edition of this bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and accessible guide to international affairs. Bringing together the combined decades of experience in researching and teaching global politics of three acclaimed scholars, this text introduces students to what is happening in our complex and rapidly changing world as well as how to analyse those events. Pedagogically driven, the book is structured around enduring questions that reflect the key concepts in world politics. It makes use of the levels of analysis framework and boxed features to highlight connections between theory and practice, aspirations and reality and history and contemporary events. This fully updated second edition includes a brand new chapter on International Organizations, a new feature to give students an insight into the latest academic research, and has been extensively rewritten throughout.

This is an ideal textbook for introductory modules for Political Science and International Relations undergraduate students.

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

Joseph Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University, USA. He has been Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany; and since 1996 he has been a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. 

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA. He is also Co-Director of Princeton's Center for International Security Studies and a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2013-2014 Ikenberry was the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford.

Michael Mastanduno is Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government and from 2010 through 2017 was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College, USA. He has been a guest faculty member at the London School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations at Milan and the Geneva Center for Security Policy.