While many texts on international relations deal only with ideologies, this book goes beyond discussion of ideology to provide an understanding of how global economics, politics, and society operate. The book begins with a history of the International Studies Association, which was founded to develop empirically-based knowledge and was opposed to ideological isms as biased guides to policy. The book focuses on four major paradigms Marxian, Mass Society, Community Building, and Rational Choice with diagrams indicating their empirical predictions over time. The Marxian paradigm focuses on...