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

About the Book

Book Synopsis

International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues has been helping students understand the dynamics of international relations for 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 writ large.
Features:
60 expertly edited readings from scholarly sources, with 30 new to this editionA four-part organization to cover anarchy, the use of force, international political economy, and contemporary issues, with an in-depth editor introduction to each PartAn entirely new chapter on the return of great power politics -- ever-more important after Russia's invasion of UkraineLearning objectives and discussion questions to focus student learning

Review Quotes

"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." --William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College

"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." --Keren Yarhi-Milo, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, and Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations, Columbia University

"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." --Ron E. Hassner, University of California, Berkeley

"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." --Kelly M. Greenhill, Tufts University and MIT

"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." --Ryan D. Griffiths, Syracuse University

"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." --Jennifer L. De Maio, California State University, Northridge

"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." --Raymonde Kleinberg, University of North Carolina Wilmington

"International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues has long been an invaluable resource for my students in Introduction to International Relations. By reading and discussing the diverse texts within, students learn not only key concepts in international relations theory, but also how to decode and critically engage with scholarly arguments. The 14th Edition's substantial coverage of key contemporary issues like the COVID-19 pandemic and US-Russia-China competition is most welcome and invites students to harness IR theory to make better sense of the world they inhabit." --Jonathan T. Chow, Wheaton College Massachusetts

"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." --Andrew Flibbert, Trinity College

"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." --Karen Ruth Adams, University of Montana

"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." --Kerry Chase, Brandeis University

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.