World Politics: The Menu for Choice (with InfoTrac) (Available Titles CengageNOW) - Softcover

Russett, Bruce; Starr, Harvey; Kinsella, David

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9780534604080: World Politics: The Menu for Choice (with InfoTrac) (Available Titles CengageNOW)

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ISBN 10: 0534604080 ISBN 13: 9780534604080

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2002

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WORLD POLITICS provides students with the tools they need to understand the vast and complex subject of international relations. It incorporates current scholarship and insightful analysis and provides an accessible introduction to game theory as a model for analyzing international relations. The text, tables, and figures have been thoroughly updated and new material has been added which relates conceptual and analytic tools to contemporary developments in world affairs.

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About the Author:

Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Director of United Nations Studies at Yale University. Since 1972, he has edited the JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION and has been president of the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society (International). He also has taught at Columbia University, MIT, and the Free University of Brussels and was Visiting Professor of International Capital Markets Law at the University of Tokyo. He has held research appointments at the University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, The Richardson Institute in London, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Tel Aviv.

Review:

"WORLD POLITICS is still the most rigorous, scientifically-oriented undergraduate textbook available. It has educated a generation of IR students, showing them how it is possible and insightful to think systematically about IR. I use it as a classic. . . ."

"The best true social science introduction to IR at the college level."

"The prose is clear, the amount of detail and assumption of factual knowledge are good, and the interest level is appropriate. My students, who are not ranked in the top tier, nonetheless find this text accessible. . . ."

"Russett and Starr's presentation of international politics is sophisticated but at the same time lucid even for the novice, it is well-informed, and it concentrates the student's attention on the core of international politics itself rather than on literature reviews of what others have said about international politics."

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