Аннотация:Book Review
The Globalization of World Politics
An Introduction to International Relations
Seventh Edition
Edited by John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens
A must have text for anybody and everybody interested in the ongoing Globalization of World Politics. Besides the fact that it has been the market-leading introduction to International Relations, written by more than 35 unrivaled experts in their fields.
Building their breathtaking narrative on thorough knowledge and careful academic research of national and international history, the book offers a bigger picture of main stream theories international relations. No global structures and processes, and international issues were left unattended. It provides an inquisitive and the most comprehensive coverage of International Relations in the Twentieth and the Twenty-first centuries.
The editors: John Baylis, Steve Smith, and Patricia Owens, did their best to ensure an integrated and coherent style throughout the book.
Integrated and interactive learning features, including case studies and questions, a brand new debating feature and end of chapter questions, are all carefully tailored to the needs of students approaching IR for the first time.
The Online resources available give lecturers and their students an extra indispensable tool for highly efficient knowledge production and exchange.
The brand new chapters including Feminism, Race, International Organizations, and NGOs leave no issue unattended and permit timely broaden the scope of the study.
The entire book encourages students to apply theory to real world events never getting tired of careful intellectual exercises. Great variety of well-founded opinions helps students to critically evaluate an argument.
Many thanks to Oxford University Press
for giving to all of us this very precious opportunity.
Dr. Asatiani Jumber
Moscow, Russia.