International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues — Robert J. Art et al. (2016)

Book Description

“Originally we put this reader together to help give the field of international relations greater focus and to bring to students the best articles we could find on the key theoretical concepts in the field. This accounts for the “enduring concepts” in the book’s subtitle. A few editions after the first, we then added a separate section on contemporary issues because of our view that these enduring concepts have more meaning for students when applied to salient contemporary issues. All subsequent editions have followed this basic philosophy of combining the best scholarship on theoretical perspectives with that on important contemporary problems. In constructing the first edition, and in putting together all subsequent editions, including this one, we have tried to create a reader that embodies four features : a selection of subjects that, while not exhaustively covering the field of international politics, nevertheless encompasses most of the essential topics that all of us teach in our introductory courses ; individual readings that are mainly analytical in content, that take issue with one another, and that thereby introduce the student to the fundamental debates and points of view in the field ; editors’ introductions to each part that summarize the central concepts the student must master, that organize the central themes of each part, and that relate the readings to one another ; a book that can be used either as the core around which to design an introductory course or as the primary supplement to enrich an assigned text.”–taken from Preface, page x.

Book Details

• Author: Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis
• Published Date: 2016-03-29
• Published Year: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9780134490724