International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, 13th Edition

Robert J. Art
Robert Jervis



Understanding International Politics with Scholarly Articles

International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues has been helping students effectively understand politics under governments and beyond for over 40 years. Scholarly articles on essential topics illustrate fundamental debates and differing points of view for a comprehensive and engaging overview of the discipline, while introducing students to the major forces shaping the world today.  

The Thirteenth Edition still employs the book’s cornerstone approach of teaching international politics through relevant scholarship that illustrates its theoretical concepts. This edition, however, contains 27% new material spread across each of the book’s four parts. Organizational changes and new information have been added throughout to expand the reader’s introduction to this broad and ever changing field.

Table of Contents

Part I: Anarchy and Its Consequences 
1. Power, Principle, and Legitimacy in Statecraft
2. The Meaning of Anarchy 
3. Strategic Interaction in Anarchy
4. The Mitigation of Anarchy 

Part II: The Uses of Force 
5. The Political Uses of Force
6. The Utility of Force Today 
7. The Nuclear Future 

Part III: International Political Economy and Globalization 
8. Perspectives on Political Economy 
9. Globalization Today
10. Fixing the World Political Economy 

Part IV: Contemporary Issues in World Politics 
11. Interstate War and Terrorism
12. Civil Wars, Human Rights, Regime Change, and Humanitarian Intervention 
13. Transnational Actors and New Forces 
14. The Global Commons and Global Governance 
15. The Shape of the Future