Charles W. Kegley Books

'World Politics' provides a complete introduction to international relations, global problems, and policy issues. An accompanying CD-ROM includes on-line exercises, demographic information, Web links, and case studies.

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY is the market leader for the American foreign policy course. Guiding students through 21st century American foreign policy by placing contemporary issues, debates, challenges, and opportunities in their historic context, this text helps students understand and assess the forces underlying continuity and change. This Sixth Edition retains the book's effective analytical framework. Harnessing the conceptual, theoretical, and historical components that facilitate analysis of American foreign policy, the text maintains that five sources--international, societal, governmental, role, and individual--collectively influence decisions about foreign policy goals and the means chosen to realize them. Readers will come away from this text with knowledge of how the enduring principles, values and interests of the United States (peace and prosperity, stability and security, democracy and defense) define and reinforce the ability of policymakers to respond to changes in the international environment.

Update of the original, an essential part of the repertoire for more than a century, features exercises for training in speed, agility, and strength of fingers and wrists plus downloadable MP3s.

Offering a consistent, future-oriented perspective, this important new study considers the positions of the United States and other world powers in a changing international system and outlines the priorities and constraints that may govern the conduct of American foreign policy in the decades to come. Focusing primarily on the breakdown of the bipolar system and its replacement by a multipolar system, the authors provide an analysis of great-power relations before and during the Cold War - one that challenges some of the prevailing notions about the lessons of the Cold War, examine the recent changes in international alliances and the future role that transnational actors may take in minimizing conflict, and consider the different arrangements under which this multipolar system can provide the most favorable environment for world peace.