The analytical framework instructors love―and the help students need applying it. With a framework based on interests, interactions, and institutions, World Politics gives students the tools to understand international relations. In the thoroughly updated Fourth Edition, new Controversy units provide models for applying the concepts in each chapter to real-world issues and events. New InQuizitive activities―created and tested by instructors who teach with World Politics―then invite students to practice applying the analytical tools from the text to alternative examples and cases.

Part 1 Foundations

Chapter 1 What Shaped Our World? A Historical Introduction

Chapter 2 Understanding Interests, Interactions, and Institutions

Part 2 War and Peace

Chapter 3 Why Are There Wars?

Chapter 4 Domestic Politics and War

Chapter 5 International Institutions and War

Chapter 6 Violence by Nonstate Actors: Civil War and Terrorism

Part 3 International Political Economy

Chapter 7 International Trade

Chapter 8 International Financial Relations

Chapter 9 International Monetary Relations

Chapter 10 Development: Causes of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations

Part 4 Transnational Politics

Chapter 11 International Law and Norms

Chapter 12 Human Rights

Chapter 13 The Global Environment

Part 5 Looking Ahead

Chapter 14 The Future of International Politics