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This book distills the essential elements of world politics, both the enduring characteristics as well as the revolutionary changes that may be altering the very fabric of the centuries-old state system. Rochester ultimately challenges the reader to think critically about the future of a post-Cold War and post-9/11 world.

In this concise introduction to international law, students gain a clear appreciation for how politics shapes the development of international law, and how international law shapes political relations between states. Throughout the book, Rochester takes this complex subject and makes it accessible with his vibrant, easy-to-read prose. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the m...

This lucid and engaging volume provides an essential framework for introducing students to the fundamentals of world politics by clarifying the complexities of its rapidly changing context.

Creating a fever chart of what is wrong in the nation's classrooms, a professor reports on current education fads and how they are harming children of all abilities.

This work considers the complexity of contemporary global politics and poses questions such as how people will be organized politically and will govern their affairs in the 21st century. It examines humanity's transitional state "between two epochs", the Westphalian and post-Westphalian, and helps students get a handle on "their world", engaging them in critical reflections on broad trends that are likely to shape the human condition.

This book explores the complex challenges that the United States and other countries experience today in fighting asymmetrical wars in which they are expected to comply with the Unoted Nations Charter as well as the Geneva Convention and other laws of war while often facing an adversary that recognizes no such obligations.

A firsthand account of the Great American Education War being waged from coast to coast.

The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the prolifer