Concepts in International Relations A
New Introduction
By Felix Berenskoetter
How can we better understand global issues? And what does it mean to do international relations theory today?
Concepts in International Relations offers a fresh and accessible introduction to IR theory through the lens of the key concepts that shape our world - power, security, race, gender, the environment, and more. Unlike traditional textbooks, this book treats concepts not just as tools but as the very foundation of international thinking and practice.
Concepts don't just describe the world - they make it. Politicians, scholars and activists all use them to frame debates, justify actions and imagine alternatives. By interpreting and reimagining these concepts, theory becomes a powerful way to engage with global politics.
This book is the essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching IR or IR theory for the first time.
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Understanding Terrorism 8/e Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues
By Gus Martin
Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues offers a multidisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of domestic and international terrorism that helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to critically assess the expressions and underlying causes of terrorism.
Martin explores theory and provides in-depth analysis in an accessible, engaging manner that helps readers develop the knowledge and skills they need to engage meaningfully with this robust course.
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696 pages
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Theories in Action
By Hubert Zimmermann, Milena Elsinger
The definitive applied theory textbook that helps you make sense of global issues through theoretical concepts. Not presupposing any prior knowledge, this introduction equips you with the skills to use theories as adaptable tools to tackle complex global issues. Adopting a critical and questioning approach, you will be equipped in theory as a series of tools to be used, adapted, combined, and applied when grappling with some of the most contested issues in global politics.
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368 pages
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Subcontinental Drift
Domestic
Politics and India's Foreign Policy
Key Thinkers on Space and Place 3/e
By Rajesh Basrur
This book offers a novel theoretical framework for comprehending the interplay between India’s foreign and domestic policies, along with a series of theoretical refinements to neoclassical realism. Subcontinental Drift also provides guidance for policymakers on mitigating the costs associated with policy drift.
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264 pages
Release Date: June 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT
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By Mary Gilmartin, Phil Hubbard
Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think. This updated edition of the essential undergraduate text will introduce you to the most influential thinkers in the tradition of social theory, with a new focus on the past fifty years. This book is designed to engage with theoretical debates in human geography through the individuals who have made the most significant contributions to this field.
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528 pages
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Soft Power beyond the Nation
By Sylvia Dummer Scheel, Charlotte Faucher
Soft Power Beyond the Nation takes a distinct approach to the study of soft power in history, moving beyond the framework of the nation-state. The volume editors use "soft power" to refer to the processes through which persuasion, the search for influence and power, and public opinion converge in the international arena.
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272 pages
Release Date: November 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781647124991 AUD$: 97.99
Security Studies
An Applied Introduction
By Norma Rossi, Malte Riemann
Security Studies: An Applied Introduction offers a transformative tool to understand, analyze, and engage with the complexities of security in the modern world. This groundbreaking new text redefines the landscape of security studies This is the perfect introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Security Studies and International or Global Security.
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Release Date: March 2024
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632 pages
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Intercultural Communication 3/e
International Student Edition - Globalization and Social Justice
Cold Rivals
The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition
By Kathryn Sorrells
Introducing students to the study of intercultural communication within the broader context of globalization, Kathryn Sorrells explores how history, power and global institutions are central to understanding the relationships and contexts that shape communication between cultures. Based on a framework that promotes critical thinking, reflection and action, the text uses a social justice approach to provide the reader with the skills and knowledge needed to create a more equitable world through communication.
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9781544328713
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By Evan S. Medeiros, Evan S. Medeiros
Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future. The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics.
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320 pages
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IR - 4/e
International Student Edition - Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World
By James M. Scott, Ralph G. Carter
IR: Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World invites students to participate in these debates by providing a clear introduction to not just what happens, but why and how it happens. Assuming no prior knowledge about international relations, award-winning teachers and scholars James M. Scott, Ralph G. Carter, and A. Cooper Drury meet students where they are and provides them with a framework to make sense of the complicated events and interactions of world politics.
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Release Date: June 2021
9781071841020
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A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors 2/e
By Mikhail S. Blinnikov
Written in a lucid, conversational style by a Russian-born international expert, the concise chapters interweave vivid descriptions of urban and rural landscapes, examinations of Soviet and post-Soviet life, deep knowledge of environmental and conservation issues, geopolitical insights, engaging anecdotes, and rigorous empirical data.
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Release Date: June 2021 476 pages
9781462544592
AUD$: 153.00 China
A Geographical Perspective
By David W.S. Wong, Kenneth Koon Kwai Wong
China has become a superpower, exerting significant influence globally. The text also offers in -depth assessments of selected regions, capturing the complexity of this vast and populous country. It is richly illustrated with more than 150 maps, tables, figures, and photographs including 8 pages in full color.
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Release Date: May 2018
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American Foreign Policy Since World War II 21/e
International Student Edition
By Steven W. Hook, John W. Spanier
This twenty-first edition features three new chapters that examine the aftershocks of the Arab Spring and the revival of power politics and discuss the implications of a changing American policy under the Trump presidency. Providing the historical context students need, this book helps them to grasp the functions and frequent dysfunctions of the nation's foreign policy agenda with historical insight into modern policy context.
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To Catch a Spy The Art of Counterintelligence
By James M. Olson
In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence, offers a wake-up call for the American public and a guide for how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security and trade secrets. Olson takes the reader into the arcane world of counterintelligence as he lived it during his thirty-year career in the CIA.
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Release Date: October 2021
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After the End of History
Conversations with Francis Fukuyama
By Mathilde Fasting, Francis Fukuyama
Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thought. In his 1992 best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanity’s political and ideological development. Thirty years later, with populism on the rise and the number of liberal democracies decreasing worldwide, Fukuyama revisits his classic thesis.
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224 Pages
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9781647120863
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Social Inequality in a Global Age 7/e
By Scott R. Sernau
Social Inequality in a Global Age provides a sociological framework for analyzing inequality within the United States in the context of global stratification and a rapidly changing world economy. With insightful analysis, and using examples drawn straight from today's headlines, Scott Sernau explores the multiple dimensions of inequality class privilege, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, status and power and how they intersect with each other. As it explores each dimension of inequality, the text analyzes the relationship between changing global power structures and growing inequalities within societies. Throughout, a focus on social action and community engagement encourages students to become involved, active learners in the classroom and engaged citizens in their communities.
Political Geography
Approaches, Concepts, Futures
By Rachael Squire, Anna Jackman
This innovative and thought-provoking text will teach you about the diverse and increasingly expansive sub-discipline of geopolitics. Divided into three sections, Political Geography draws on case studies from a diverse range of scales, contexts, and demographics, to introduce you to the key approaches, concepts, and futures of geopolitics. You will cover an extensive range of key topics in Political Geography, from feminist geopolitics to non-human worlds, and nationalism to peace and resistance. Throughout this first edition you will apply various theoretical lenses, utilize a wide range of examples both past and present, and draw on cutting edge scholarship to reinvigorate your understanding of important themes such as the state, borders, and territory.
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256 Pages
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Global Political Economy
Problems in a Transforming International Order
By Ralf Juan Leiteritz, Carolina Urrego-Sandoval
Taking first the profound transformations underway in the global political economy, this pathbreaking new text redefines how we understand trade, finance, money and labor. In this new problembased approach, the core concerns of the global economy are joined by key topics, spanning energy to development, inequalities to illicit economies, reflecting the fluid and dynamic nature of contemporary GPE scholarship. The book addresses four major transformations shaping the global political economy today: the questioning of the liberal international order, the rise of the Anthropocene, the technological advancements of the fourth industrial revolution, and the increasing significance of identity politics. These transformations are explored through a comprehensive framework that integrates diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, ensuring a nuanced understanding of real-world problems.
The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change 4/e
By Gregory R. Maio, Geoffrey Haddock
This book delves into the fascinating world of attitudes: how they’re formed, how they drive our actions, and the scientific methods used to unravel their mysteries and influence their shifts. By introducing fundamental concepts and providing a balanced perspective, it weaves together diverse research from around the globe. The fourth edition is thoroughly updated, exploring cutting-edge topics such as attitudes towards vaccines, political polarization, and the impact of social media on attitude change. You’ll discover applications of attitude research in environmental, political, and health psychology, along with critical reflections on research methodologies and the role of technology and social media.
Political Theory
A Global and Comparative Introduction
By Leigh Jenco, Paulina Ochoa Espejo
This groundbreaking work presents a transformative perspective on political theory. This text is not just an introduction to political theory, it's a call to broaden the discipline's horizons, making it more globally aware and methodologically diverse. The authors introduce a novel approach to political theory that expands the scope of the discipline beyond traditional philosophical texts and Eurocentric perspectives. The text integrates canonical Western texts with diverse sources of political thought from a wide range of times and places – spanning the Vedas to the Quran, the Upanishads to the Popol Vuh. This is the first introductory text to incorporate such a variety of texts and authors with each thinker (whether Plato or Laozi, Du Bois or Confucius) introduced in a way that’s both accessible and relevant today.
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344 Pages
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408 Pages
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9781529671100
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392 Pages
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Political Theory
By Simon Stevens
Political Theory: Why Big Ideas Matter takes a unique disruptive approach by creating conversations between two or three important thinkers, within multiple cultural contexts and perspectives to show innovative connections between thinkers across time and space. Rather than drawing solely from the established ‘canon’ of traditional political thought, which has been criticized for being too white, too male, and too Western, this book is part of a worldwide effort to contest and diversify.
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Populism An Introduction
Climate Security
By Robert Alexander Huber, Michael Jankowski
After reading this groundbreaking textbook, you will have a solid understanding of state-of-the-art populism research and be ready to take a deep dive into more complex debates. Every chapter follows a clear and logical structure and employs the following learning features to help you grapple with the complex topic of Populism
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By Ashok Swain
This nuanced, urgent book cuts into the heart of this relationship, packed with global examples, from glacier movements destabilizing borders, to misinformation driving political apathy around the climate. You will encounter new, provocative ideas such as the carbon footprint of the military, the pressing need for the Global South to adapt, not blame, and the need for strong and visionary leadership in climate negotiations.
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Release Date: December 2024 216 pages
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By Norman Flynn, Alberto Asquer
Recognizing the importance of context, Public Sector Management underscores that one-size-fits-all management practices are inadequate. Learn how public sector management adapts to changing political climates and societal pressures and be guided through the intricacies of making evidence-based policies while acknowledging the political dynamics that shape them.
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Release Date: April 2024
9781529774566
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Principles of Comparative Politics 4/e
International Student Edition
By William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder
Principles of Comparative Politics offers a view into the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. This groundbreaking text gives students meaningful insight into how cross-national comparison is conducted and why it matters. William R. Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona N. Golder Walk us through the enduring questions that scholars grapple with the issues about which consensus has started to emerge, and the tools comparativists use to analyse the complex and interesting problems at the heart of the field. The thoroughly revised Fourth Edition includes streamlined discussion and analysis of key topics and theories in the field.
The Politics of Development
By Claire Mcloughlin, Sameen Ali
A pathbreaking introduction to the controversial, contested and deeply political topic of development. Written in an engaging and eminently readable style, leading authors invite readers to examine the political dynamics behind some of today's most complex global issues, from rising inequality and social exclusion to the climate crisis. By confronting false assumptions and dispelling myths, the book challenges readers to see politics as not only the obstacle to development, but also the means to achieve it. The Politics of Development is grounded in the everyday challenges facing people around the world in accessing the vital resources they need to survive and thrive. It illustrates the unavoidable reality that politics shapes who gets what, when, how, whether in family settings, local communities, national stages or global arenas.
The Politics of Policymaking
An
Introduction
By Arjen Boin, Martin Lodge
Never has good policy been so important. From unemployment and a lack of affordable housing to regulating cryptocurrencies and protecting against cybersecurity threats, the challenges we face are complex and global. The text explains how policymaking works: from the emergence of policy ideas to deciding between cutting-edge solutions, from evaluating policies to improving policymaking practices, using examples from around the world. Open the black box of government to see where policies are made. This introductory text takes you beyond theory and into the messy world of policymaking, offering a toolkit for making better policy. Drawing from insights earned through years of interactions with policymakers and extensive teaching experience, Boin and Lodge offer a comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of government and how to produce policies that address societal problems of today and tomorrow.
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248 Pages
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World Politics 3/e
International Relations and Globalization in the 21st Century
By Jeffrey Haynes, Peter Hough
Extensively revised, the third edition takes you through the key events and changes in world politics from the 1500s, showing how historical events and developments are essential for understanding world politics today. Packed with examples from around the world, the book introduces the reader to different theories, concepts, issues, and actors in world politics.
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The New Case for Bureaucracy
International Politics
International Student Edition - Classic and Contemporary Readings
By Charles T. Goodsell
The New Case for Bureaucracy goes beyond empirically verifying its quality. Now an extended essay, written in a conversational tone, Goodsell expects readers to form their own judgments. At a time when Congress is locked in partisan and factional deadlock, he argues for the increased importance of bureaucrats and discusses how federal agencies must battle to keep alive in terms of resources and be strong enough to retain the integrity of their missions.
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By Scott P. Handler, Robert T. Person
International Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings showcases the field’s central traditions as well as important contemporary debates in the field of international relations. The book’s four main parts-theoretical traditions, war and peace, international political economy, and emerging issuesmirror how the international relations course is taught
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9781071840931
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456 pages
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Implementing Public Policy 4/e
An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance
By Michael Hill, Peter Hupe
The only book to focus on implementing public policy, this state-of-the-art text offers a comprehensive and lively account of the major insights found in implementation theory and research. Its exploration of the field provides a reflective overview of work in the study of policy implementation worldwide. Realizing policy goals may be the key to ballot box victory, while policies perceived as failures may symbolize declining trust and confidence in government and politics.
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9781529724875
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304 pages
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Research Methods in Politics and International Relations 2/e
By Christopher Lamont, Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski
The most practical guide to conducting research in Politics and International Relations. This textbook sets out how to approach every stage of your research project, from formulating a research question and research design, to detailed guidance on using specific methods and writing up your paper.
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Political Analysis
A Guide to Data and Statistics
Qualitative Research in Politics and International Relations
A
practical and pluralist guide
By Matthew Loveless
From news reporting on elections or unfolding political crises to everyday advertising, you are confronted with statistics. Rather than being swayed by bad arguments and questionable correlations, this book introduces you to the most common and contemporary statistical methods so that you can better understand the world.
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By Corina Lacatus
This groundbreaking textbook is the essential introduction to qualitative research for politics and international relations. Presented in a refreshingly accessible manner, this text applies a practical approach to help you learn by doing and will equip you with the tools to get research. Embrace a pedagogical approach that seamlessly integrates theoretical insights with hands-on guidance.
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Research Methods in International Relations 2/e
By Christopher Lamont
The only guide to conducting research in International Relations. Covering the full breadth of methods in IR with unrivalled clarity, this best-selling textbook takes you through the entire process of doing research, from honing your question to writing up the dissertation. The engaging and jargon-free style demystifies the process of doing research, whilst helping you develop a comprehensive understanding of the strengths and limitations of different methods and methodologies.
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