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With a new chapter on the environment, and extensive coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and global health, Heather McKibben continues to enliven Karen Mingst's classic, concise text. Refined and expanded InQuizitive activities help students learn, retain, and apply key concepts... Read Full Overview

A fresh perspective renews Karen Mingst's classic, concise text. A new chapter on international cooperation and international law presents alternatives to war. A streamlined approach to theories and levels of analysis makes concepts easier to understand and apply. Expanded coverage... Read Full Overview

Essentials of International Relations has long provided the clearest explanations of core concepts and theories; in its Seventh Edition, robust new "Behind the Headlines" features and engaging new chapter openers help students more easily draw connections between international... Read Full Overview

The text that instructors trust has been updated and redesigned for today's classroom. Contemporary topics in international relations are thoroughly covered, and a new full-color design and new features get students engaged and thinking critically.

The Fifth Edition offers more ways than ever to help students learn and apply the core ideas in the field. New co-author Ivan Arregu n-Toft brings expertise in security studies to key topics like war and terrorism, helping students see how scholars use concepts and theory to... Read Full Overview

Professor Mingst's unique framework focuses on the basic concepts and core theories that political scientists use to understand world politics. The Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated with analysis of important recent events and new Global Perspectives boxes that invite... Read Full Overview

Essentails of Internatioanl Relations covers the field's core concepts and offers professors the freedom to supplement their courses with additional texts from the Norton Series in World Politics. This second edition features new chapters on globalizing issues, addressing scarcity... Read Full Overview

This work is an introduction to the core concepts of international relations. The author presents the basic tools of analysis - the individual, the state and the international system - and shows how the primary schools of thought - liberalism, realism and Marxism - use these... Read Full Overview

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