International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues - Softcover

This core text is the first to provide a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to international studies. Emphasizing the interconnected nature of history, geography, anthropology, economics, and political science, International Studies details the methodologies and subject matter of each discipline then applies these discipline lenses to seven regions: Europe; East Asia and the Pacific; South and Central Asia; Africa; the Middle East; Latin America; and North America. This disciplinary and regional combination provides an indispensable, cohesive framework for understanding global issues.

The third edition includes:
? A new chapter on North America
? Three new global issues chapters: The Right to Protect, New Global Players in the 21st Century, and The Arab Uprisings

"There are numerous international politics books but this is the only one that I have found that really focuses on international studies in a distinct manner. What is particularly important is the first five chapters that help define the disciplines from which International Studies draws. It also does an admirable job of touring students throughout the world. Many of my students cannot believe how much territory we have covered by the end of the semester."
?Christopher Scholl, California State University, Channel Islands

"International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues stands out as a major contribution to the methodology of International Studies ? This book should be compulsory reading for all researchers and students in International Studies."
?Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria

Sheldon Anderson is professor of History and International Studies at Miami University. He is the author of Condemned to Repeat It: 'Lessons of History' and the Making of U.S. Cold War Containment Policy; A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations; and A Dollar to Poland is a Dollar to Russia: U.S. Economic Policy toward Poland.

Mark Allen Peterson is professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Miami University. He is the author of Connected in Cairo: Growing Up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East and Anthropology and Mass Communications: Media and Myth in the New Millennium.

Stanley W. Toops is associate professor of Geography and International Studies at Miami University. He is coauthor of The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs.

Jeanne A. K. Hey is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New England in Maine.