Global Politics: A New Introduction

Global Politics: A New Introduction engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. From that innovative starting point, it explores key issues through a critical and inquiring perspective, presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies.

Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition offers examples engaging with the latest developments in global politics: the climate crisis and anthropocentrism, Indigenous experiences and thinking, racism and the rise of xenophobia, artificial intelligence, citizen journalism, global health and pandemic response and drone warfare.

Global Politics:

- examines most significant issues in global politics - poverty, development, colonialism, human rights, gender, inequality, race, war, peacebuilding, security, violence, nationalism, authority and what we can do to change the world;

- offers chapters written to a common structure ideal for teaching and learning and features a key question, an illustrative example, general responses and broader issues;

- integrates theory and practice throughout the text, drawing on international relations, political theory, postcolonial studies, sociology, geography, peace studies and development.

This exciting, up-to-date and ground-breaking textbook is essential reading for all those concerned about global politics.

Jenny Edkins is Honorary Professor of Politics at The University of Manchester, and Professor Emeritus at Aberystwyth University, UK.

Maja Zehfuss is Professor of International Politics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Thomas Gregory is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.