International Relations: Perspectives, Controversies and Readings

ISBN-13: 9781285865164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str.

Shimko, Keith L.

Opis

Teaching readers to think systematically and critically about international affairs, this textbook delivers brief, topical coverage with a debate framework and primary source readings included throughout.

Spis treści

1. Change and Continuity in International History.2. Contending Perspectives on International Politics.3. Power Politics.4. War and Democracy.5. War and Human Nature .6. Free Trade.7. The IMF, Global Inequality, and Development.8. Globalization and Sovereignty.9. International Law.10. The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention.11. Nuclear Proliferation.12. International Terrorism.13. The Global Commons.Index.

O autorze

Keith L. Shimko, Ph.D., is associate professor of political science at Purdue University. He has taught Introduction to International Relations since 1990 and has won several school and university-wide teaching awards. Dr. Shimko is the author of IMAGES AND ARMS CONTROL: PERCEPTIONS OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION (Michigan, 1991), which was named a CHOICE outstanding academic book and received the Lynne-Reinner/Quincy Wright Award, as well as THE IRAQ WARS AND AMERICA'S MILITARY REVOUTION (Cambridge, 2010). He received his B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College and his Ph.D. from Indiana University.