World Politics into the 21st Century: Unique Contexts, Enduring Patterns

Unique in its presentation, World Politics adopts a world politics perspective that integrates international and domestic policies throughout all the substantive topics addressed. The text combines contemporary and historical coverage with tools that encourage readers' understanding, independent thinking and active evaluation of real world problems. Four major issues —security and the uses of force; international economics; international environmental issues and human rights amid global diversity—receive equal, exhaustive coverage, while the authors focus on the politics of strategic choice in a way that stresses finding a common ground that respects different world views. This volume covers issues surrounding competing world views, politics of strategic choice, the nature of choice in world politics and fundamental issues in contemporary world politics, as well as, the evolution of world politics, and the world wars, looking for ways to build a global security system that works and the global European political economy. For individuals and professionals involved with or interested in international politics, world politics and international relations.