Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation, Pearson New International Edition, 9th edition

· Employs an analytical framework that pulls from history, theory, and policy to help students fully understand the complexities of world affairs in two ways. The first is an emphasis that conflict and cooperation are two sides of the same problem: namely, resolving disputes. The second is an emphasis that pressing problems are decreasingly international and increasingly global; interstate conflict is still an important problem but conflict within states is now more common than between states and it almost always reverberates internationally. (ex. p. vi)

· Introduces three major theoretical paradigms—realism, liberalism, and constructivism—and discusses how each can or cannot explain conflict and cooperation among international actors. (ex. p. 62)

· Explores international politics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, comprehensively surveying everything from wars among great powers to the rise of globalization and complex interdependence. (ex. Ch. 7)

· Poses normative questions to help students consider practical answers to how actors should approach problems in international politics.

· Features chronologies, primary source excerpts, maps, and photos to deepen the historical context and to enliven the text. (ex. p. 34)

· Includes an extensive list of suggested reading to help both instructors and students build on the ideas presented in the text.