World Politics: Trend and Transformation

This widely-used textbook - now completely re-designed in full colour throughout - provides a complete introduction to International Relations and to global problems and policy issues. The authors cover both rivalries between nations and issues - like terrorism, nuclear prolification, energy and resource politics, and patterns of international production and investment - which transcend national boundaries. Their approach blends historical and descriptive information with more analytic, theoretical and conceptual discussion. The new sixth edition has been comprehensively revised throughout to tackle a new global order without a principal axis (such as the Cold War) and with little consensus as to key dimensions into the 21st century.