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The Globalization of World Politics is the market leading introduction to international relations, written by an impressive line-up of expert contributors. Spanning history, theory, structures, processes, and issues, it offers the most comprehensivecoverage of international relations available, and closely maps on to introductory courses. Excellent learning features are included throughout, including numerous boxes, figures, tables, maps and questions. Case studies offer engaging examples to help link theories with IR in practice. The text is supported by an extensive Online Resource Centre with helpful additional material and exercises for both lecturers and students. A full colour text is visually appealing to students and aids navigation around the book. New to this edition Two new chapters on post structuralism and post colonialism provide more detailed coverage of alternative approaches to International Relations theory. All chapters have been updated to take account of the latest global events, with particular emphasis on the 2008 financial crisis, forced migration, diplomacy, and religion. Three new authors - Matthew Watson, Tony Evans, and Jack Donnelly - have substantially revised the chapters on ´Global Trade and Finance´, ´Poverty, Development, and Hunger´ and ´Human Rights´. The Online Resource Centre, which accompanies the text, has been updated and improved. It now includes additional case studies for lecturers, a revision guide, and an interactive library of li

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