World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions

Product Description
The accessible analytical framework to make sense of global events, and the tools to apply it. With a framework based on interests, interactions, and institutions,
World Politics gives students an accessible analytical approach to understand international relations. In the Fifth Edition, two new guest contributors―Stephanie Rickard and Susan Hyde―offer cutting-edge analysis of current issues, including the global coronavirus pandemic and trade war between the United States and China. When assigned with InQuizitive and brand new News Analysis activities, students can apply the framework to global and current events.
About the Author
Jeffry A. Frieden is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. A specialist on the politics of international financial relations, he is also coauthor, with Menzie Chinn, of
Lost Decades, a history of the 2008 financial crisis.
David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is, most recently, the author of
Hierarchy in International Relations. His other books include
Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century and
Power, Protection and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939. In addition, he is co-editor of 10 volumes and author of over 80 articles and book chapters on international relations, international political economy, and American foreign policy. He is Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research at UCSD. In 2013, he received the UCSD’s Chancellor’s Associates Awards for Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Kenneth A. Schultz is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research examines international conflict and conflict resolution, with particular focus on the domestic political influences on foreign policy choices. He is the author of
Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy, as well as numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. He received the 2003 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, and the 2011 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching from Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences.