The Globalization of World Politics

The best-selling introduction to international relations offers the most comprehensive coverage of the key theories and global issues in world politics, written by the leading experts in the field.

John Baylis is Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations and former Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University.
Sir Steve Smith is the UK Government's International Education Champion, and the Prime Minister's Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter from 2002-2020
Patricia Owens is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford

- Part One: International Relations in a Global Era
- 1: John Baylis, Patricia Owens and Steve Smith: Introduction
- 2: Anthony McGrew: Globalization and global politics
- Part Two: The Historical Context
- 3: George Lawson: The rise of modern international order
- 4: Len Scott: International history of the twentieth century
- 5: Michael Cox: From the end of the cold war to a new world dis-order?
- 6: Andrew Hurrell: Rising powers and the emerging global order
- Part Three: Theories of World Politics
- 7: Tim Dunne: Liberal Internationalism
- 8: Stephen Hobden and Richard Wyn Jones: Marxist theories of international relations
- 9: Or Rosenboim: Realism
- 10: Helen Kinsella: Feminism
- 11: Meera Sabaratnam: Postcolonial and decolonial approaches
- 12: Lene Hansen: Poststructuralism
- 13: Michael Barnett: Social Constructivism
- Part Four: Structures and Processes
- 14: Tarak Barkawi: War and world politics
- 15: John Baylis: International and global security
- 16: Nicola Phillips: Global political economy
- 17: Paul Kirby: Gender
- 18: Robbie Shilliam: Race in world politics
- 19: Christian Reus-Smit: International law
- 20: Susan Park: International organizations in world politics
- 21: Devon Curtis and Paul Taylor: The United Nations
- 22: Jutta Joachim: NGOs in world politics
- 23: Edward Best and Thomas Christiansen: Regionalism in international affairs
- Part Five: Contemporary International Issues
- 24: John Vogler: Environmental issues
- 25: Sophie Harman: Global health
- 26: Ariadna Estévez López: Refugees and forced migration
- 27: hunger, and development, Tony Evans: Poverty
- 28: Matthew Watson: Global trade and global finance
- 29: James Kiras: Terrorism and globalization
- 30: Sheena Chestnut Greitens: Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
- 31: national self-determination and international relations, John Breuilly: Nationalism
- 32: Ratna Kapur: Human rights
- 33: Alex Bellamy and Nicholas Wheeler: Humanitarian intervention in world politics