Product Description Offering a truly global approach to the International Relations course, Introduction to Global Politics brings together an expert team of international scholars to provide students with a current, engaging, non-US perspective on our field of study. This new text helps students to identify patterns, to apply theories, and "to see the whole chessboard." The book's unique organization facilitates this global approach by dividing typical course coverage into several core areas of study- "Foundations," "Theories," "Actors" and "Issues"-allowing not only for maximum teaching flexibility but also for more thoughtful classroom discussions on various theories, transnational actors, and timely global issues. And with a number of engaging features and critical thinking questions throughout each chapter, the authors take the global approach one step further-by encouraging students to develop their own informed worldview. About the Author Steven L. Lamy earned his Ph.D. in international relations from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, in 1980. His areas of expertise include international relations theory; foreign policy analysis; the foreign policies of the Western nation-states with an emphasis on Western European states, the U.S. and Canada; human security; and teaching and curriculum development in international relations. Lamy has published more than 40 articles and book chapters in these areas. He is co-authoring an introductory textbook in international relations to be published by McGraw-Hill. In acknowledgment of his role as mentor and teacher, Lamy has received 18 awards for excellence in teaching from colleagues and students. In the fall of 1992, he was awarded honorary membership to the USC Mortar Board Honor Society for his contributions to undergraduate education. Lamy was also awarded honorary membership in USC's Golden Key Honor Society in 1996. He has been honored with the Burlington National Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1987 and the Pi Sigma Alpha Faculty Excellence Award for 1989-1991. In 1995, Professor Lamy was nominated by the president of USC for the Case Professor of the Year, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation. In 1998, he was awarded the Outstanding Service Award by the Association of Trojan Leagues of USC. In 2002, he received USC's Teaching Has No Boundaries Award, and Lamy was named a Distinguished Teaching Fellow for USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching in 2005. Lamy is a regular contributor to major international relations conferences and workshops. He has received more than 15 grants from both private and public sources for research in foreign policy and for program development. He was the co-director of the school's Pew Initiative in Diplomatic Training and served as a special consultant for the international affairs education for the Danforth Foundation in 1988. In 2006, he authored a successful proposal to the Luce Foundation that has created the Religion, Identity and Global Governance project. He was an instructor in the Pew Initiative Diplomatic Training Faculty Fellows Program at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University form 1990-1994. John Baylis is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University. His PhD and D.Litt are from the University of Wales. He is the author of more than twenty books, the most recent of which are Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, (2nd edn, with James Wirtz, Colin S. Gray, and Eliot Cohen, Oxford University Press, 2006) and The United States and Europe: Beyond the Neo-Conservative Divide? (edited with Jon Roper, Routledge, 2006). Steve Smith is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter. He has held Professorships of International Relations at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the University of East Anglia, and has