IR - Vantage Digital Option

Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World

FAVORITE SAGE VANTAGE FEATURES

• Pedagogical Scaffolding
  Builds on core concepts, moving students from basic understanding to mastery.

• Confidence Builder
  Offers frequent Knowledge Checks, applied-learning multimedia tools (including assignable video with assessment), and chapter tests with focused feedback to ensure students know key concepts. Additionally, data analysis activities help build data literacy skills.

• eReading Experience
  Makes it easy for students to learn by presenting content in easy-to-digest chunks accompanied by frequent Knowledge Checks. The eReader also features notetaking, highlighting, definition look-up, and other helpful reading tools.
  
  
• Assignments and Measurement Made Simple
  Feeds auto-graded assignments to your gradebook, with real-time insight into student and class performance. The highly visual reports show if your students are struggling and where they need the most help.
  
  
• LMS Integration
  Saves you time by giving you access to all course materials from one location. SAGE Vantage can integrate with your LMS providing Single Sign-On (SSO) and gradebook integration.
  
  
• Simple Course Setup and Management
  Enables you to set up your course in just 3 steps—so fast you can complete it in minutes! Additionally, instructor control over assignments, content selection, due dates, and grading supports the way you choose to teach.
  
  
• Quality Content
  Written by expert authors and teachers you trust, content is not sacrificed for technical features.
  
  
• Student Dashboard
  Offers a highly visual student dashboard for easy access to grades, so students know exactly where they stand in your course and where they might improve.
  
  
• Greater Value and Choice
  Affordable access to easy-to-use, quality learning tools students will appreciate.
  
  
• Greater Flexibility
  Easy to access across mobile, desktop, and tablet devices, SAGE Vantage enables students to engage with the material you choose, learn by applying knowledge, and soar with confidence by performing better in your course.

KEY FEATURES OF IR, FOURTH EDITION 

• Important global events and trends of recent years keep students engaged with issues related to changing power and leadership globally, the nature of and challenges to international order, backlash against globalization, and public health issues including COVID-19.
• Restructured and organized for conceptual clarity, the discussion of diplomacy (previously in chapter 2) has been moved and integrated into chapter 7—enabling students to connect diplomacy to important international topics such as the challenges of Brexit, populist backlashes to globalization, and EU reform plans.
• Throughout the text, chapter features – opening vignettes, feature boxes, end-of-chapter puzzles – are updated or replaced to be timely and current. Topical revisions and updates strengthen the coverage and relevance of the text, including treatment of cyberspace/cyberwar, public health, and topics such as immigration, refugees, and others.
• New and updated tables, charts, maps, and photographs illustrate important political events and players and bring concepts to life for today’s students.