International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues has been helping students effectively understand the dynamics of international relations for almost fifty years. Readings by leading scholars on essential topics illustrate fundamental debates and differing points of view for a comprehensive and engaging overview of the discipline, while introducing readers to the major forces shaping the world today. The fourteenth edition continues the book's cornerstone approach of combining foundational theoretical works with recent perspectives on current problems, including a wealth of new material spread across each of the book's four parts. The foundational material is organized to highlight the concept of anarchy in international relations and how matters of security, power, military force, international political economy, and strategic interactions influence patterns of cooperation and conflict. In additional to a focus on basic security and strategic problems, the politics of international commerce, and challenges facing the global economy, this edition also covers critical contemporary issues, including human rights, civil wars, intervention and peacekeeping, migration, cyber conflict, great power competition, climate change, energy transition, nuclear weapons, pandemic diplomacy, and changes in the political shape of the system write large. Features: -60 expertly edited readings from scholarly sources, with 30 new to this edition -A four-part organization to cover anarchy, the use of force, international political economy, and contemporary issues, with an in-depth editor introduction to each Part -An entirely new chapter on the return of great power politics -- ever-more important after Russia's invasion of Ukraine -Learning objectives and discussion questions to focus student learning
Robert J. Art is Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University, Research Associate at Harvard University's Olin Institute of Strategic Studies, Senior Fellow in MIT's Security Studies Program, and Director of MIT's Seminar XXI Program. In 2006, he was recognized with the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association. Timothy Crawford is associate professor of political science at Boston College (up for full professor this year). His most recent book is The Power to Divide: Wedge Strategies in Great Power Competition (Cornell University Press, 2021). Robert Jervis was Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University; he was a former president of the American Political Science Association.
