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Product details
- ISBN 9781473973466
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 170 x 242mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2017
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Introducing the key events and developments in international relations, this authoritative and engaging book provides students with a clear understanding of the contemporary issues in international politics. Putting the foundations and contexts of International Relations at your fingertips, this Eighth Edition:
- Provides an account of the world as it has evolved up to 1945
- Extended coverage of topics including population, gender and the environment
- Includes expanded material on the theory of international relations
- Includes new learning resources, including an ‘alternative perspectives’ box in each chapter
- Supports research with fully updated and annotated further reading lists
Praised for its detail and tone, International Relations since 1945 is ideal for providing undergraduates with a historical background as they approach international relations.
Geir Lundestad was born in 1945. He was professor of history and American Civilization at the University of Tromsø from 1974 to 1990. He has held fellowships at Harvard University (1978–79, 1983) and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC (1988–89).
Since 1990 Lundestad has been director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and permanent secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The Committe awards the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1991 he has also been adjunct professor of international history at the University of Oslo.
Lundestad has written numerous books and articles on the Cold War and on transatlantic relations. His most recent books are The Rise & Decline of the American ‘Empire’. Power and its Limits in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) and, edited, International Relations Since the End of the Cold War. New & Old Dimensions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
