Product Description

This is a clear and simple, but stimulating, introduction to the most significant issues within international relations in the 21st Century. 

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #400364 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

From the Back Cover

Students come to study International Relations at university driven by a variety of motives and active concern to study great contemporary issues, such as the causes and persistence of war, threats of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, the persistence of global poverty amid globalization’s riches and longer term threats to sustainable development.

Building on the success of the first edition, Issues in International Relations 2ed provides students with a clear, but stimulating, introduction to the most significant issues within international relations in the 21st Century. Written by experienced teachers in a jargon-free way, it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and allows students approaching International Relations for the first time to gain confidence in what is an often complicated and confusing discipline.

Completely revised throughout with the addition of ten new chapters, this textbook;

• introduces key conceptual issues, including theories of international relations, power, sovereignty and globalisation
• considers contemporary global problems such as: force and security; law and military intervention; terrorism; the environment; religion
• explains the relationship between global politics and economics with chapters on international organisations, international political economy and development
• provides students with boxed 'revision-style' notes and case studies throughout the text and a guide to further reading and websites at the end of each chapter.

This book is ideal reading for students on introductory international relations courses.

About the Author

Trevor C. Salmon is Professor of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the College of Arts and Social Sciences. He has been an academic since 1973, and has worked in Limerick University, St Andrews University, and the College of Europe. 

Mark F. Imber is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK.

John Anderson is Professor of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. His research interests lie in the fields of religion and politics, and in post-Soviet politics. His most recent books are Religious Liberty in Transitional Societies: The Politics of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Religion, Democracy and Democratization, (Routledge, 2005).

Antje Brown gained her PhD in 1999 from the Department of Politics, University of Stirling, and has subsequently taught on EU, Environmental and International Politics courses at a number of Scottish Universities. She has published a book on EU environmental policy implementation in Scotland and Bavaria and is currently working on her latest project on the implementation of the Environmental Liability Directive in Scotland.

David Brown is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His recent publications include Unsteady Foundations: The European Union's counter-terrorism strategy 1991-2006, (Manchester University Press, 2007) and with Alistair J.K. Shepherd (eds.), Wider Europe, Weaker Europe? Assessing Security in an enlarged European Union, (Manchester University Press, 2007).

Professor Roger Carey has been the Director of the Isle of Man International Business School since its foundation in 1999. He has an academic background in the discipline of International Politics, which he has taught in various Universities in the UK. His main research interests lie in the area of International Security where he has contributed both to the literature and to debate.

Trudy Fraser is a double graduate of the University of Aberdeen and a PhD candidate in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, where she is writing her thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mark Imber. Her main area of research is United Nations Security Council reform.

David Galbreath is a lecturer in international relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. His recent publications include The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, (Routledge, 2007) and with M. Malksoo and J. Lamoreaux, Continuity and Change in the Baltic State Region, (Rodopi, 2008).

Steven Haines is Professor of Strategy and the Law of Military Operations at Royal Holloway College, University of London. For five years before he retired from the Royal Navy, in 2003, he was a staff officer in the Policy Area of the Ministry of Defence’s Central Staff. The author of the United Kingdom’s Strategic Doctrine (British Defence Doctrine, 2001), he also chaired the Editorial Board of the UK’s official Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict published in 2004.

Mark Imber is Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of numerous works on the role of international organizations in the protection of the global commons, including ‘The Reform of the UN Security Council’ in International Relations, 20, 3, 2006. His books include Environment, Security and UN Reform, (Macmillan, 1994), and, with John Vogler, (eds.) The Environment and International Relations (Routledge, 1996).

Professor Vivienne Jabri is Director of the Centre for International Relations and a Professor in International Relations, at King’s College, London. She joined King's in 2003, having previously lectured at the University of St Andrews and Kent University. Her most recent book is War and the Transformation of Global Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Professor Jabri holds research funding from the European Commission funded project, CHALLENGE: The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security, investigating the political implications of war and practices of exception and emergency in the post 9/11 context.

Gabriela Kütting is Associate Professor of Political Science and of Global Affairs at Rutgers University. She has published widely in the field of Global Environmental Politics and is the author of Environment, Society and International Relations (Routledge, 2000) and Globalization and Environment, Greening Global Political Economy (SUNY Press, 2004 and 2007).

Norrie MacQueen teaches International Relations at the University of Dundee. Previously he had taught and researched in Universities in Australia and the South Pacific. He has worked in Mozambique, as well as in various universities and colleges in Britain. His most recent books are Peacekeeping and the International System (Routledge, 2006) and Colonialism, (Longman, 2007).

Trevor Salmon is Professor of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen and Director of Learning and Teaching in the College of Arts and Social Sciences. He has previously worked at Limerick University, the University of St. Andrews and the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin. His recent publications include (with Alistair Shepherd) Towards a European Army: Military Power in the Making? (Lynne Rienner, 2003), (with Sir William Nicoll) Understanding the European Union (Longmans, 2001), and ‘The European Union: Just an Alliance or a Military Alliance?’ in Journal of Strategic Studies (2006).

Archie Simpson holds an MA (Hons) in Political Studies, M. Ed. in Educational Studies, MA International Politics and M. Res. (Political Research) and a PhD from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. His doctoral research explored a theoretical explanation into the survival of the European micro-states. He has been an undergraduate tutor at the University of Aberdeen (2000-2005), and a Teaching Fellow at the University of St Andrews (2005–2007). He is also a founding member of the Centre for Small State Studies at the University of Iceland.

Gabriella Slomp is a lecturer in History of Political Thought at the University of St.Andrews. She is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (Macmillan, 2000) and of Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror, (Palgrave, forthcoming).

Andrea Teti is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth. Recent publications include ‘Bridging the Gap: International Relations, Middle East Studies and the disciplinary politics of Area Studies controversy’ in European Journal of International Relations and 'Divide et Impera: International Relations, Middle East Studies, and the colonization of knowledge', in Begum O. et al (eds), Troubled Engagements: Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice (Universiteit van Amsterdam Press, 2007).

Ben Thirkell-White is a lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, having previously taught at the Universities of Bristol and Sheffield. He recently published The IMF and the politics of financial globalisation: from the Asian crisis to a new international financial architecture (Palgrave, 2005) and is currently working on a ERSC project on the comparative political economy of pro-poor adjustment, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield.

Alison Watson is Head of the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. She is part of the editorial team for the Review of International Studies and recent publications include The Child in International Political Economy (Routledge, 2007) and Children and War (Polity Press, forthcoming in 2008).

James Wyllie is Reader in International Relations and Director of the M.Sc. Strategic Studies degree programme at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests are in strategic theory, Middle East security and European security. He has also taught and researched at the Universities of Durham, East Anglia, and Calgary and has been a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review.

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Customer Reviews

An easy to follow introduction to International Relations
This was an excellent book that covered many of the main "issues in international relations". It is written in a clear and easy to follow way with boxed revision notes making it an excellent book for students.