This 13-chapter textbook covers the following: System History: The Rise of the Modern World System; Images and Theories of World Politics; Foreign Policy Decision Making; Non-State Actors- IGOs, NGOs, MNCs; The World Economy; The Global North and South; Globalization; War and International Security; Military Power; Realists Paths to Peace – Alliances, Dominance and Treaties; Idealist …
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Introduction to International Relations Canvas Commons download This semester-long Canvas course shell includes an OER textbook equivalent, lesson plans, and ancillary materials. The content contained within this Open Education Resource (OER) was curated and/or created by Dr. Charlotte Lee at Berkeley City College, Dr. Katherine Michel at Ohlone College, and Dr. Josh Franco at Cuyamaca College. …
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Intended for upper division students, this is the first textbook treatment of human security and related concepts such as socio-political security, economic security, environmental security, and health security. This textbook includes 21 chapters. Note that it is unclear whether this textbook is peer-reviewed.
This textbook is intended as an introduction to core concepts and topics in international relations. This book contains eighteen chapters organized into two parts. Part one on “the basics” covers international relations theories and institutions, while part two on “global issues” takes up topics such as global development, human rights, terrorism, and environmental challenges. Note …
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This textbook explores the craft of diplomacy and foreign policy making. It begins with a chapter on international relations theories and explores issues by region as well as foreign policy topic. Note that this text does not appear to be peer-reviewed.
The textbook is also available at opolisci.com. The textbook comprises 12 chapters on topics in comparative politics, including: methods in comparative politics; states and regimes; democracies and democratization; non-democracies and democratic backsliding; political identities; political economy; collective action and social movements; comparative public opinion; and political violence. Ancillary materials such as lecture slides, quiz banks, …
This book is intended to serve as the foundational text for a unit within a course. Over seven chapters, the book focuses on theories and concepts related to nationalism and self-determination, then asks under what circumstances secession is justified.
Written by a professor of political theory in the London School of Economics’ Department of Government, this open access volume explores themes related to conflict, violence, and politics through essays on ten thinkers from antiquity into the present day. Part I of the book examines in separate chapters the contributions of Thucydides, Augustine, Machiavelli, and …
With contributions from scholars across North America and Europe, this edited volume explores contemporary political problems through various texts from antiquity through the present. Divided into two parts and a total of 15 chapters, the first five chapters explore “the classical heritage” and the last ten chapters turn to European Enlightenment ideas.
This edited volume is organized as a dialogue on the theme of global citizenship. In response to a lead essay by Canadian political theorist James Tully, seven subsequent chapters offer responses to Tully’s framing of global citizenship. The ninth and final chapter offers a closing response from Tully.