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John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997), 526 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0 19 878109 1.
The Globalization of World Politics will be welcomed by teachers of undergraduate courses in international relations. This text gives comprehensive coverage to the historical context of international politics, different theoretical approaches and important processes and issues in contemporary global politics. All discussions are tied back to debates over the development of processes of globalisation and the contested nature of much international relations scholarship is stressed throughout.
The book is very well designed as an introductory text with key points reiterated throughout, and sensible use of boxes to highlight particular points or to canvass different views on a given topic. Steve Smith's introduction to critical approaches is exemplary in its clarity and as a guide to...