Conflict, Crisis and War in World Politics

An Introduction

By: Patrick James, James M. Scott

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Paperback | 10 January 2025

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This topical textbook outlines conflict, crisis, and war as central challenges in the international security arena, exploring their history, evolution, nature, dynamics, and trends. Patrick James and James M. Scott discuss the major approaches to analysing conflict, crisis, and war and identify the key avenues for managing them.

Engaging with major scholarly work, the textbook combines scientific realism, analytic eclecticism, and the multilevel and graphic approach of systemism to establish the meaning and importance of theory and linkages across levels of analysis. Reflecting on policy practices, James and Scott explore system, state and individual level explanations of, and approaches to, managing and preventing conflict, crisis, and war. They ultimately advocate for an integrated approach that addresses and connects multiple levels of analysis for a more thorough and nuanced understanding.

Key Features:

Applies an innovative approach with unique visual tools
Encourages comprehension of major concepts, theories, and practices and critical thinking
Includes core feature boxes which present real-world applications to illustrate a concept and reflect on a point of explanation in greater depth

Theoretically informed and conceptually innovative, this textbook is vital to students and scholars of international politics, international relations, and terrorism and security.

Industry Reviews

'Conflicts escalate from crisis to war due to domestic, regional, and international influences. Most approaches ignore this complexity or are too technical for non-specialists. The authors employ graphic analysis - supplementing words with images - so the complexity of international conflict is part of the theorizing yet is understandable by all.' -- Douglas Lemke, Pennsylvania State University, US

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