Spring/Summer 2009 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

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Global Horizons
An Introduction to International Relations
Hendrik Spruyt
UTP Higher Education
In the current era we
have the ability to wage
global war, interact economically
and culturally
with any part of the
world, and communicate
with each other in
real time. Our horizons
are now global. Time
and space have contracted.
In Global Horizons,
Hendrik Spruyt takes the change in our horizons
as a key feature of modern international relations,
examining how international politics and the relations
between nations have become global politics.
The book is organized into three sections: War and
Peace, International Political Economy, and Global
Challenges and Opportunities. Case studies are
referenced throughout in order to illustrate abstract
issues – including cases on World War I, the Cold
War, the American invasion of Iraq, the politics of
energy, and global warming.
Global Horizons is a concise introduction to
international relations, providing important coverage
of the problems that confront humanity and
that require multilateral solutions.
Hendrik Spruyt is the Norman Dwight Harris
Professor of International Relations at Northwestern
University.
Comparing Political
Regimes
Second Edition
Alan Siaroff
uTP Higher Education
There are now 193
sovereign states in the
world. Contrary to
many assumptions (or
hopes), these have hardly
all converged onto a liberal
democratic model.
Instead, there is still
great variation in national
political regimes.
In Comparing Political
Regimes, Alan Siaroff
provides a comprehensive and current assessment
of the world’s political systems. He does so by
outlining and contrasting the aspects of four different
regime types – liberal democracies, electoral
democracies, semi-liberal autocracies, and closed
autocracies – and classifying all 193 countries
within this typology. Empirical explanations answer
the question of why countries tend to be in one
regime type rather than another. The new edition
provides complete data updates as well as dozens of
changes to regime categories, levels of civil-military
relations, and types of electoral systems.
Comparing Political Regimes provides an excellent
foundation for learning about the countries of the
world and the political systems under which they
operate.
Alan Siaroff is a professor in the Department of
Political Science at the University of Lethbridge.
Approx. 280 pp / 6 x 9 / June 2009
Paper ISBN 978-1-44260-092-8 £19.99 $39.95 X
Approx. 327 pp / 7 x 9 / January 2009
Paper ISBN 978-1-44260-012-6 £22.99 $46.95 X
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