This exciting, accessible introduction to world politics includes current, 21st century topics, such as terrorism, often neglected in other texts and features a unique active learning approach that helps students better understand IR.

Lauded by reviewers for its strong scholarship and excellent attention to theory, World Politics in the 21st Century, includes comprehensive coverage of current topics that are often neglected in other texts—topics such as human rights, women, terrorism 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. Because today's students learn and think differently than in the past, the authors present an active learning approach that begins with the instructor. An Instructor's Edition includes all the active learning techniques, suggestions and guidance a professor will need to utilize this approach in class.

The active learning approach is extended through the use of fascinating, current “Case Studies” at the end of each chapter, which ask students to apply concepts and analyze real-world situations ripped right from the headlines. In offering students an approach that helps them better make sense of the complexity of international relations and in providing them unique coverage of important issues in today's world, this is a text that is sure to engage students in the study of IR.