Introduction to International Relations

Joseph Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University, USA. He has been Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany; and since 1996 he has been a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA. He is also Co-Director of Princeton's Center for International Security Studies and a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. Michael Mastanduno is Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, USA. He has been Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Chapter 1. Understanding International Relations.- PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.- Chapter 2. The Emergence of a Global System of States, 1500-today.- Chapter 3. Theories of International Relations.- Chapter 4. The Analysis of Foreign Policy.- PART II. WAR AND PEACE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY STUDIES.- Chapter 5. War and Its Causes.- Chapter 6. Pathways to Interstate Peace.- Chapter 7. Weapons of Mass Destruction.- PART III. WEALTH AND POWER: AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY.- Chapter 8. International Politics and International Economics: Trade, Money, Multinationals, and Institutions.- Chapter 9. Power, Politics, and the World Economy.- Chapter 10. Dilemmas of Development.- .- PART IV: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.- Chapter 11. Pirates, Warlords, and Terrorists: Challenges to the State.- Chapter 12. The Environment and International Relations.- Chapter 13. Facing the Future: Six Visions of an Emerging International Order.