International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, Global Edition

by Robert Jervis, Robert J. Art

Places contemporary essays alongside classics to survey the field's diverse voices, concepts, and issues. Challenging students to use original scholarship to recognise and analyse patterns in world politics, this bestselling book considers how to effectively understand politics under governments and beyond. Carefully edited selections cover the most essential topics and are put into conversation with each other to illustrate fundamental debates and differing points of view. Comprehensive and engaging, International Politics offers the best overview of the discipline as well as the forces shaping the world today. The full text downloaded to your computer

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Genres: Politics, International Relations, Nonfiction, Political Science, History, Reference, Textbooks

512 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 1984

About the author

Robert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, and has been a member of the faculty since 1980. Jervis was the recipient of the 1990 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Jervis is co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, a series published by Cornell University Press, and the member of numerous editorial review boards for scholarly journals.

While Jervis is perhaps best known for two books in his early career, he also wrote System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton, 1997). With System Effects, Jervis established himself as a social scientist as well as an expert in international politics. Many of his latest writings are about the Bush doctrine, of which he is very critical. Jervis is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he was awarded the NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War from the National Academy of Sciences. He participated in the 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, a high-level research program on nuclear proliferation. He was also president of the American Political Science Association in 2001.

Reviews

[Mayim de Vries · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid collection of canon readings in political sciences.

[Hossein Aghaie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Without recourse to hyperbole, this is an IR bible, encapsulating a unique compilation of International Relations scholarship and works from Kenneth Waltz, Robert Jervis, Barry Buzan to new mover and shakers of the discipline. It is the most comprehensive coverage of important concepts, trends, and issues in international relation.

[Zach Opsitnick · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fascinating collection of essays and the editor really did a good job of tying everything together. Would definitely make a fine reference book.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah, memories. Re-reading this freshman poli-sci collection of essays that introduced me to the world of international political theory was a blast from the past. It's interesting to see how some things never change ("Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma"), others seem to come from a world long-gone - at least for now - ("Peace, Stability, and Nuclear Weapons"), and still others are purely academic in the face of my own real life experience ("Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars"). One 1975 essay ("International Terrorism" by Brian M. Jenkins) was eerily prescient in its three specific predictions of the development of terrorism: the development of a worldwide terrorist organization (al Qaida), more extravagant attacks than the airline hijacking of the 70s (9/11), and the employment of terrorist groups as means of surrogate warfare (Iran and Hezbollah).

NOTE: Read the 6th edition (2003)

[Steven Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I once used the 1973 version of this book as a text when I taught International Relations. As an edited volume, its individual entries introduce students to a wide array of key essay.

Part One focuses on the anarchic environment of world politics, and the implications for understanding the behavior of states. Part Two explores the use of force, including special emphasis on force in the nuclear era. Part Three considers imperliamism and its various explanations. The final segment looks to the future of world politics.

A fine, albeit dated, volume. . . .

[Bmojaddidi]

a bunch of political and informative articles.... an excellent read though some articles are biased towards some group of people or some religious ideologies...

[Star Shining Forever · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of articles on various issues in International Relations.

[Robert Greer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Explains some interesting topics and theories without coming off as too bias. You have to be really interested in the subject matter to stay with it.

[Camden · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too conservative but aood collection of a variety of essays, needs more post/anti-colonial, marxist, feminist essays though instead of (or maybe in addition to ) constructivism.