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The edition highlights updated coverage across realism, liberalism, and economic structuralism, including expanded discussions of key thinkers and debates such as balance of power, globalization, global governance, and postcolonial perspectives. It also emphasizes educational features—expanded headnotes and critical-thinking questions—linking selected readings to core theoretical concepts through the book’s progression.","If you’re wondering why you should buy this new edition of International Relations Theory, here are five good reasons!  \n1. Chapter 1,“Thinking About IR Theory,”includes a new reading by Thomas Walker on the dangers of becoming wedded to a single paradigm or image of world politics.  \n2. Chapter 2,“Realism: The State and Balance of Power,” now has an expanded discussion of Thucydides and new sections on defensive and offensive realists, nonsystemic realist explanations, and dynamic differential theory of great power war.  \n3. Chapter 3,“Liberalism: Interdependence and Global Governance,” expands the discussion on both the impact of globalization on IR theory and the literature on deliberative global governance and has a new article by Robert Keohane on Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons.  \n4. Chapter 4,“Economic Structuralism: Global Capitalism and Postcolonialism,”provides more in-depth coverage of Antonio Gramsci, Robert Cox, and the postcolonialism literature. It also includes a new reading by Barbara Bush on the role of culture in imperial relations.  \n5. Each reading features an expanded headnote and critical-thinking questions that provides more context for the selection and teases out its conceptual or theoretical import.  \nInternational Relations Theory  \nFifth Edition  \nPAUL R. VIOTTI  \nUniversity of Denver  \nMARK V. KAUPPI  \nGeorgetown University  \nLongman  \nBoston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo  \nSenior Acquisitions Editor: Vikram Mukhija  \nEditorial Assistant: Beverly Fong  \nSenior Marketing Manager: Lindsey Prudhomme  \nProduction Manager: Stacy Kulig  \nProject Coordination, Text Design, and Electronic Page Makeup: S4Carlisle Publishing Services  \nCover Designer: John Callahan  \nCover Image: PhotoAlto/Corbis  \nSenior Manufacturing Buyer: Dennis Para  \nPrinter and Binder: R.R. Donnelley and Sons  \nCover Printer: R.R. Donnelley and Sons  \nFor permission to use copyrighted material, grateful acknowledgment is made to the copyright holders, which are hereby made part of this copyright page.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Viotti, Paul R.  \nInternational relations theory / Paul R. Viotti, Mark V. Kauppi.—5th ed.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN-13: 978-0-205-08293-3 (alk. paper)  \nISBN-10: 0-205-08293-9 (alk. paper)  \n1. International relations. I. Kauppi, Mark V. II. Title.  \nJZ1305.V56 2012  \n327. 101—dc22 2010048600  \nCopyright © 2012, 2010, 1999 by Pearson Education, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States. To obtain permission to use material from this work, please submit a written request to Pearson Education, Inc., Permissions Department, 1900 E. Lake Ave., Glenview, IL 60025 or fax to (847) 486-3938 or[e-mail glenview.permissions@pearsoned.com. For](e-mail glenview.permissions@pearsoned.com. 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