This exciting introduction to world politics features a unique active-learning approach that helps students better understand international relations and includes current, 21st Century topics often neglected in other texts.

Lauded for its strong scholarship and excellent attention to theory, this second edition, like the first, includes comprehensive coverage of current topics often neglected in other texts—topics such as human rights, terrorism, women, and poverty, to name just a few. This unparalleled coverage, in addition to the text's unique active learning approach, make it a text that is truly for the 21st Century and its students.

The Second Edition offers three new features—“A View from…,” “Historical Perspective,” and “Why It Matters to You”—to further engage students and help them learn.