International Studies

Global Forces, Interactions, and Tensions

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• New and updated examples keep students engaged and give them a better understanding of current global issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the #MeToo movement, the populist/nationalist backlash to globalization, Brexit, how Chinese currency affects Zambian poverty, surveillance capitalism, and Greta Thunberg’s impact on climate change.
• Updated scholarship introduces students to the latest social scientific research that they can use to develop a better understanding of the issues.
• Updated photos, figures, tables, and maps help students conceptualize the global forces, interactions, and tensions being presented in each chapter.

• IS from the Outside-In boxes examine a global event’s effect on local communities while IS from the Inside-Out boxes reverse the perspective and focus on a local community’s effect on the world. Critical thinking questions are included for each to encourage a deeper understanding of the content.
• Global Forces, Interactions, and Tensions graphics provide visual summaries of the connections between who, what, where and why.
• End-of-chapter questions invite students to make further connections between the content and framework