International Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings

This comprehensive, smartly-organized reader showcases the very best international relations scholarship: over 90 readings represent the field's traditions and contemporary debates, helping students trace the development of the scholarly field. International Politics: Classic and Contemporary Reading's four main parts€"theoretical traditions, war and peace, international political economy, and emerging issues€"dovetail with how most IR courses are taught, making the book easy to use. But this is more than just a collection of readings: International Politics is designed to help readers engage critically, in the spirit of intellectual pluralism, with some of the world's most provocative questions.

Editor Scott P. Handler's substantial part headnotes put each of the selections into context, and he models analytic questions throughout. At the end of each headnote, discussion questions serve to guide class debate. Class-tested over several years, International Politics was purpose-built to introduce students to the principles of intellectually rigorous thought.