This book highlights the complexities of nationalism and the struggles of different groups left unaddressed within the nation-states of a postcolonial world. The central question is what happened to the worldly and radical visions of freedom, liberty, and equality that animated intellectual activists and policy makers from Woodrow Wilson in the 1920s? This book analyzes the outcome of lumping disparate groups of people together under one nation-state and holding them together against the knowledge of the incompatibility theory of plural states. In a world of arbitrarily and colonially mapped sovereign states, groups, and nations with distinctive histories and cultures trapped within the borders of sovereign states want the freedom to decide their own destinies. This book challenges, deconstructs, and decolonizes Western epistemologies related to postcolonial state formation and maintenance. In examining the freedom concept that no human group ought to be determining the independence of other human groups, this book constructs an alternative conceptualization of nations and peoples' rights in the twenty-first century, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to internal nationalism struggles.

Global Politics Reader: Themes, Actors, and Issues is a timely and enlightening anthology that addresses major challenges facing global governance. Students are challenged to analyze sources of peace and conflict within the complex web of interactions among contending global actors. The central role of international institutions and law in global governance is emphasized. The anthology is organized into four distinct sections that discuss and analyze perennial issues and areas of concern in global affairs. In Part I, students read about major global powers with emphasis on China, Russia, and their influence on other countries worldwide. Part II illuminates global conflicts, including ethnic warfare, the ongoing tension between Israel and Palestine, the Iran Deal and the issue of nuclear power, and perspectives on the Sunni-Shi'a divide. Part III examines sources of peace with readings that explore the future of the United Nations, European trade policy, development and issues of security, and the United States' Mideast policy. The final part addresses global challenges, including international trade, economic development, global warming, and the future of democracy. An engaging supplementary text, Global Politics Reader is ideal for foundational and upper-division undergraduate courses in world politics.

Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States provides readers the means to understand, grow, and engage in upper-division World Politics. The text encourages students to not just read, but engage with the material which in return will increase enjoyment of, and apparition for, the discipline. Introduction to World Politics: Prospects and Challenges for the United States: Features a succinct approach to the discipline. Unlike other books for ""introductory"" courses, the authors don't 'cram' too much content and detail into their reading. Rather, they cut to the main points which they find essential for make since of how the world works. Challenges readers to not fear the word 'theory', but rather the authors take readers on a methodical journey through the development and application of three central theories. Educates readers on foreign policy challenges faced by the United States such as international security, international organizations, and law and international economics.