Jenny Edkins (editor) - Global Politics: A New Introduction

What counts as global politics? Whose lives matter? How are you involved? Edkins and Zehfuss powerfully illustrate that there are no easy answers and that details are important. Every once in a while a book changes the way we see people, places, and practices around us; the third edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction is one of those rare experiences.

Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick, UK

I have been using this book for undergraduate teaching since the first edition was published. This newest edition has made a good thing even better. Using up-to-date illustrative examples, the chapters offer theoretically-rich, innovative yet accessible introductions to key ideas in the study of global politics. This remarkable volume goes beyond the familiar stories about international relations, challenging students to think critically not only about the answers, but about the questions we ask about the way the world works.

Fiona Robinson, Carleton University, Canada

This is the book that gets students reading, thinking and talking! It poses the questions central to the practices of global politics and pushes the boundaries of how we understand those processes. Crucially it encourages us to rethink about what constitutes the global and what politics involves.

Stephen Hobden, University of East London, UK

I recently read Global Politics: A New Introduction I loved how each chapter asks a question before provoking offshoots of more questions departing from the first. I also enjoyed the real-life scenarios, and the chance to understand the responses to these scenarios and to think about the questions raised within the chapter in relation to each scenario. I loved how you take complex ideas and theories and make them appear so simple and understandable.

Sabur Zeenat, masters student at Leicester University, UK

This new edition of Global Politics is certain to engage and stretch students. Edkins and Zehfuss clearly know how to grab students attention and to inspire them to think and then rethink. Every chapter here, Im wagering, will spark wonderful classroom discussions. Global Politics is smart, lively and gritty.

Cynthia Enloe, author of Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered

Unlike the majority of IR manuals, this book does not try to domesticate the ways we learn and teach global politics. Instead of spoon-feeding students with theories and concepts, it invites students to think about the international by focusing on the very questions that drive them to study world politics. I wish a manual like this had been available back when I was an undergraduate student.

Erica Simone A. Resende, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

A New Introduction

Third Edition

Edited by
Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss

Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss

Vronique Pin-Fat

Simon Dalby

Carl Death

Annick T. R. Wibben and Olivia U. Rutazibwa

Peter Mandaville

Jenny Edkins

Debbie Lisle

M. I. Franklin

Roxanne Lynn Doty

Stuart Elden

Elena Barabantseva

Michael J. Shapiro

Lucy Taylor

Kate Manzo

Sankaran Krishna

V. Spike Peterson

Matt Davies

Paul Cammack

Mustapha Kamal Pasha

Naeem Inayatullah

Joanna Bourke

Thomas Gregory

Roland Bleiker and David Shim

Giorgio Shani

Maja Zehfuss

Elena Barabantseva is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese International Relations at The University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the questions of nationalism, borders and citizenship in the context of the Peoples Republic of China. She is currently participating in the ChinaEurope research project Immigration and the Transformation of Chinese Society. She is the author of Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-Centering China (Routledge 2010), co-editor (with Claire Sutherland) of Citizenship and Diaspora (Routledge 2011) and co-editor (with William A. Callahan) of and contributor to China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy (Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press 2012). She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.