International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues - Paperback

by Stanley Toops (Author), Mark Allen Peterson (Author), Walt Vanderbush (Author)

This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach.

International Studies focuses specifically on five core disciplines; history, geography, anthropology, political science and economics, and describes them in relation to one another, as well as their individual and collective contributions to the study of global issues. The expert authors also emphasize the continuing importance of area studies within an interdisciplinary and global framework, applying its interdisciplinary framework to substantive issues in seven regions: Europe, East Asia and the Pacific, South and Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and North America. This new edition has been completely updated and substantially revised with two new chapters on Media, Sovereignty and Cybersecurity and Sustainable Development.

This disciplinary and regional combination offers a useful and cohesive framework for teaching students a substantive and comprehensive approach to understanding global issues.

Author Biography

Stanley Toops is an associate professor of geography and international Studies at Miami University, Ohio, USA.

Mark Allen Peterson is a professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Miami University, Ohio.

Walt Vanderbush is interim chair and associate professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, Ohio, where he previously served as the Director of Latin American Studies.

Naaborle Sackeyfio is assistant professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, Ohio.

Sheldon Anderson is Professor of History at Miami University, Ohio.