Essential Readings in World Politics
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Book Overview
Essential Readings in World Politics introduces students to key literature in international relations and provides everything instructors need to round out their syllabus, including classic readings and contemporary articles on ongoing international issues drawn from a wide range of sources and accompanied by headnotes offering the context and background that introductory students need. In the Sixth Edition, 23 new readings offer diverse perspectives on current topics such as the rise of China, the proliferation of terrorism and terrorist groups, international human rights, and the consequences--and failures--of international climate negotiations. The chapters complement Mingst and Arregu n-Toft's companion text, Essentials of International Relations, and can be packaged at a discount with that text or used on its own.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393283666
ISBN13:9780393283662
Release Date:July 2016
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:712 Pages
Weight:2.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.3" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Better than the Average "Reader"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book is better than your average world politics reader in the scope of material it covers. Each chapter is preceded by some comments from Mingst and Snyder which makes the text easier to follow for those learning about IR for the first time. Additionally, they cover a broad range of perspectives including those of a classical realist, neo-realist, liberalist, dependency theorist, feminist, Marxist, and more. I was especially impressed by the thoughtful inclusion of feminist articles in key chapters, and the unconventionality of including articles from Foreign Policy and The Economist. Some of the excerpts seem arbitrarily shortened or cut off (probably due to space constraints) and therefore I feel some crucial information was addressed too briefly (and in a couple cases not at all). However, this is a good introductory reader if one is interested in International Relations, World Politics, and the International Political Economy.
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