Karen A. Mingst

[This book provides] coverage of the fundamental topics and basic concepts of international politics. Taking a balanced view of major theoretical approaches - including liberalism and realism, as well as Marxism, feminism, and constructivism - [the author] provides the analytical tools students need to understand world political affairs at the individual, state, and international system levels. [This book] provides expanded coverage of intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations, and of nongovernmental organizations, both terrorist and peaceful.-Back cover.

Essentials of International Relations

Katsuhiko Mori

This book introduces intellectual and pedagogical issues of teaching international affairs interactively. The contributors, all scholars and teachers, cite their experiences with using cases in different national settings and in teaching American students both about other geographical areas and global issues. The cases written for this volume are non-American centered, enabling students to examine the interdisciplinary material cross-nationally.

Cross-national Perspectives

Teaching International Affairs With Cases

Jack L. Snyder

Essential Readings in World Politics introduces students to key literature on international relations--from classics in the field to contemporary debates among scholars today.

Essential Readings in World Politics

Ivan M. Arreguín-Toft

Margaret P. Karns

World politics in the post-Cold War world has become increasingly institutionalized. However, the role of international organizations has been overlooked in much of the literature on international regimes. Now in paperback, The United States and Multilateral Institutions examines United States policy in areas ranging from international trade to human rights, and in institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), GATT and the World Health Organization.

Patterns of Changing Instrumentality and Influence

The United States and Multilateral Institutions

The African continent has long been plagued by economic problems. During the 1970s, with famines and two oil crises, the attention of the international donor community was riveted on Africa. In the 1980s international organizations, both governmental and private, have responded to the African crises. One increasingly visible organization is the African Development Bank, recently heralded by the Wall Street Journal as "the rarest of African species: a success." Founded in 1964 by African governments, its mandate was to solve African problems using African resources. But the devastation of the 1970s forced bank members to reexamine the implications of Africanicity, and in 1982 the bank courted nonregional members. In this first academic study of the ADB, Karen Mingst argues that the bank is a political institution, not the functional, economically neutral organization originally envisioned. Using bank archives and extensive interviews with ADB personnel, contractors, the economic development community, and national government officials, Mingst analyzes the changing political relationships in the ADB in three arenas: intraorganizational politics with effects on the secretariat and on policy issues, political relations with other development organizations, and hegemonic politics among politically and economically powerful state members. Particularly fascinating are her analyses of ADB techniques to influence borrowing states and her discussion of the cooperative and competitive relationship between the ADB and the World Bank. Mingst concludes by comparing the ADB with the other multilateral development banks: the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank. This book will interest all policymakers and scholars concerned with international organizations, economic development, and the entire future of Africa.

Politics and the African Development Bank

The United Nations in the 21st Century provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the United Nations, exploring the historical, institutional, and theoretical foundations of the UN. This popular text for courses on international organizations and international relations also discusses the political complexities facing the organization today. Thoroughly revised throughout, the fifth edition focuses on major trends since 2012, including changing power dynamics, increasing threats to peace and security, and the growing challenges of climate change and sustainability. It examines the proliferating public-private partnerships involving the UN and the debates over reforming the Security Council and the Secretary-General selection process. This edition also includes new case studies on peacekeeping and the use of force in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali, transnational terrorism and the emergence of ISIS, the Security Council's failure to act in Syria, the Syrian and global refugee/migrant crisis, and the conclusion of the Millennium Development Goals and framing of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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