Global Politics: A Toolkit for Learners is an innovative and exciting new learner-centered approach to the study of international relations. Leveraging decades of in-class teaching and learning experiences, authors Roni Kay M. O'Dell and Sasha Breger Bush have developed evidence-based teaching and learning practices which support a scaffolded, skills-oriented approach. Each chapter introduces historical documents from key political events, important concepts and the techniques learners need to independently and actively engage with primary sources. Readers are encouraged to develop a personal connection with global issues, to consider matters of justice, freedom and equality, and to think critically about possibilities for social transformation in the global arena.

This book examines major topics in global politics. Using primary sources, the authors analyze key discussions in international politics and foreign policy, globalization, war and peace, capitalism and its consequences, international organizations including the United Nations, international agreements and treaties, human rights theories and practices, global poverty, development and environment, inequality, and working class politics.