Introduction to International Relations: Perspectives and Themes is the International Relations' student's passport to success. Based on many years of active research and teaching it takes the discipline's most difficult aspects and makes them accessible and interesting.

Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world.  From liberalism through to green politics, it examines how different perspectives have developed, who has influenced them the most adn what position they represent on the key issues in global politics.  The clarity of presentation allows studnets to rapidly develop a theoretical framework and to apply this knowledge widely as a way of understanding both more advanced theoretical texts and events in world politics.

Suitable for first and second year undergraduates studying international relations and international relations theory.