Author Description

Global Politics: A Toolkit for Learners' is an innovative and exciting overview of global issues and problems, supporting readers as they independently learn about and engage in global politics. Authors Roni Kay M. O?Dell and Sasha Breger Bush invite readers to employ their curiosity and develop skills, practices, techniques, and habits of mind critical for knowledge-building and action around global politics. Based on decades of teaching and learning experience, the authors leverage evidence-based teaching and learning practices to support a scaffolded, skill-oriented, learner-centered teaching approach. The chapters review main elements of international relations and global politics using primary sources, including in-depth discussions of international politics and foreign policy, globalization, war and peace, capitalism and its consequences, international organizations including the United Nations, international agreements and treaties, human rights theories and practices, global poverty, development and environment, inequality, and working class politics. This book encourages readers to learn about global issues and solidifies personal connections with global events and problems, prompting everyone who reads it to consider matters of justice, freedom, and equality, and analyze possibilities for social transformation in the global arena.