Perspectives On World Politics

This undergraduate text now includes 43 readings on power and security, interdependence and globalization, dominance and resistance, and perspectives and world politics, with the last greatly expanded for this edition to include recent methodological and normative debates. Subjects range from the basics on states and statehood to continuity and change, international insecurity, structural realism after the Cold War, the persistence of American postwar order, the power of international organizations, globalization and the evolution of rules, global civil society, neoliberal cosmopolitanism, the dynamics of anti-globalism, the issue of masculinity and the "gender variable," and realist constructivism. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Richard Little is a professor of International Politics at the University of Bristol. He is a previous editor of the Review of International Studies and Chair of the British International Studies Association. He is co-author with Barry Buzan of International Systems in World History (University of Oxford, 2000) which has been translated into Chinese.

Michael Smith is Professor of European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University. He has published widely in the area of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis and he has co-authored with Mark Webber, Foreign Policy in a Transformed World (2002) and co-edited with Christopher Hill International Relations and the European Union (2005).