How can we better understand global issues? And what does it mean to do international relations theory today? This textbook shows how key concepts like power, security, and race shape our world. It is the essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching IR or IR theory for the first time.

An easy-to-use guide to the intuition behind statistical methods in politics and IR research. Packed with examples from the UK and Europe, this text features a suite of examples and exercises and, new for the second edition, is supplemented with online workbooks and code to help you use the techniques in the book using R, SPSS, Stata and Python.

Principles of Comparative Politics by William R. Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona N. Golder offers a view into the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. The Fourth Edition of this groundbreaking book gives readers meaningful insight into how cross-national comparison is actually conducted and why it matters.

This engaging text helps students consider global issues through the lens of the many kinds of borders they cross daily.

The Fifth Edition of A Stata® Companion to Political Analysis by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards teaches your students statistics by analyzing research-quality data in Stata. It follows the structure of Essentials of Political Analysis with software instructions, explanations of tests, and many exercises for practice.

This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. It also benefits from an international focus, taking into consideration nearly 200 countries.

An expert and accessible exploration of the increasing number and influence of authoritarian regimes. It explains the realities of recent trends to ‘autocratization’, the tools these regimes use, what we can do to resist, and why we might even allow ourselves some optimism.

A comprehensive guide to local management with a unique regional approach that provides practical applications for future local leaders.

A comprehensive guide to understanding the complexities of Global Political Economy, emphasising the importance of context and a truly global range of perspectives in analysing global issues.