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Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• The new edition is available as a digital option through SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class.
• Important global events and trends of recent years keep students engaged with issues related to changing power and leadership globally, the nature of and challenges to international order, backlash against globalization, and public health issues including COVID-19.
• Restructured and organized for conceptual clarity, the discussion of diplomacy (previously in chapter 2) has been moved and integrated into chapter 7—enabling students to connect diplomacy to important international topics such as the challenges of Brexit, populist backlashes to globalization, and EU reform plans.
• Throughout the text, chapter features – opening vignettes, feature boxes, end-of-chapter puzzles – are updated or replaced to be timely and current. Topical revisions and updates strengthen the coverage and relevance of the text, including treatment of cyberspace/cyberwar, public health, and topics such as immigration, refugees, and others.
• New and updated tables, charts, maps, and photographs illustrate important political events and players and bring concepts to life for today’s students.

• The author’s student-friendly, clear writing style makes international relations concepts approachable and manageable for undergraduate students.
• A concise organizational structure that can fit into a typical semester provides students with a foundational understanding of international relations complimented by a rich array of relevant examples that stimulate classroom discussion.
• A thematic approach revolved around the challenges of anarchy, diversity, and complexity unify the chapters and enable instructors to easily incorporate current events into the course.
• Rather than introducing the theories of international relations at the beginning, the book applies a theoretical lens throughout the entire book and explicitly applies theory to real-world behaviors and policies.
• Authors stress a problem-based approach to issues of world politics – each example is structured around an explanation, a meaning, and implication that helps frame our understanding around each event.
• Learning objectives at the start of each chapter guide students through their studies and are incorporated into end-of-chapter features to ensure each objective is met.
• Each chapter begins with a compelling chapter-opening vignette to create excitement for the international relations and prepare students for the material that follows.
• The Revenge of Geography illustrate how geography and borders can influence international relations. Complimented by discussion questions and relevant case studies, these features encourage students to think critically about how competing forces shape international politics.
• Theory in Action examples simplify the concepts by demonstrating how the ideas of real people are directly translated into current policy and action.
• Foreign Policy in Perspective discussions illuminate the motivations and behaviors behind the political actors of the world—exploring their pursuit for international, economic, and human security.
• Spotlight On stories provide additional clarification on topics that are more difficult to understand by taking a closer look at the concept and connecting it to thought-provoking case studies that emphasize an issue’s importance.
• Key Concepts provide a study aid for students to master the chapter goals. These summaries are tied to chapter learning objectives and help students focus on core content.
• Review Questions prompt critical thinking and encourage classroom discussion.
• For More Information… provide students with recommendation for further individual study.
• Think About This problems and puzzles encourage active reading and reinforce important concepts by asking students to analyze a variety of situations and “solve” international problems.