International Politics - 14th Edition by Robert J Art & Timothy W Crawford & Robert Jervis (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis

International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issueshas been expertly helping students understand politics for fifty years. The 14th edition, with fully half the readings new to this edition and a new coeditor, continues the trademark approach of teaching international politics through both cutting-edge and foundational scholarship.

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International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues continues to deliver a well-chosen collection of proven classics and timely new works. Now in its fourteenth edition, the text skillfully delineates the concepts, theories, and problems fundamental to any course on the theory and substance of international relations.

A crisp update of the classic reader, with selections from seminal and new authors on the most important issues of our time: the causes, conduct, and consequences of war; climate change, migration, and great power politics; and the relationship between power, inequality, and morality.

I continue to be impressed by each edition of this text, which delivers an excellent, organized overview and analysis of the classic and competing theories and concepts in the opaque field of international relations, made even more relevant with their addition of sections on race, the use of military force, and the return of great power politics. While the book benefits both my undergraduate and graduate students who are required to apply theory to their analysis of global events and conflict, it has also framed (through the years) much of my own thinking, teaching, and research in the field. It is a 'must have' for organizing any class in international relations.

Like its predecessors, the 14th edition of International Politics is an extraordinary classroom resource. This unique volume combines classic international relations texts with timely policy relevant research and permits instructors to offer their students the theoretical rigor and cutting-edge research one finds in top-notch journals and periodicals, but delivered in a single package of carefully curated, highly accessible and easily digestible excerpts. It's a terrific reader.

Thanks to the editors' brilliant updates, International Politics remains the peerless compilation of canonical and cutting-edge texts for classroom use--welcome news for a new generation of international relations students.

There is nothing more essential in today's shifting geopolitical climate than educating the next generation of scholars and practitioners. In this volume, the authors distill the field into the most crucial readings and contextualize them for international relations students. As such, this is the single most valuable international relations reader available today.

This has long been my go-to reader for introductory courses in international relations. It includes many of the great classic and contemporary essays in the field and organizes them according to key theoretical issues. It is the perfect guide for students who want to explore the original writings and see how international relations scholars argue and make sense of the world.

This is a wonderful update to the canonical IR textbook. The editors have kept the crucial foundational texts, supplemented with a diverse selection of analyses on provocative contemporary issues, including climate change, migration, global health, and transnational activism. It represents the state of the art on IR theory and will captivate a new generation of students.

This is the most well-organized and comprehensive text, bringing together the leading voices on international relations to engage with fundamental debates, provide insights, and encourage critical analysis of the issues that shape our world.

This smartly updated edition of a longstanding, go-to resource is among the best collections of foundational texts in the study of international relations. It covers all the theoretical basics of the subfield and provides key pieces of original scholarship from a range of classic, contemporary, and emerging perspectives.Instructors value its editorial wisdom and balance, while students appreciate its comprehensive coverage of the many issues in world politics capturing their attention.

About the Author

Robert J. Art is the Christain A. Herter Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, Brandeis University. In 2006 he was given the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Security section of the International Studies Association.
Timothy Crawford is professor of political science at Boston College. 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.