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The challenge of teaching international studies is to help you think coherently about the multiple causes and effects of global problems. In International Global Forces, Interactions, and Tensions , award-winning scholars Scott Straus and Barry Driscoll give you a clear framework that pinpoints how key factorsforces, interactions, and tensionscontribute to world events, with both global and local consequences. The authors first show you how to look for common patterns in global issues by introducing four world-shaping global markets, shifting centers of power, information and communications technologies, and global governance. They systematically trace how these forces prompt interactions among world actors and thus give rise to a set of tensions that spur key challenges. The framework enables you to ask and answer for yourselfWho is interacting? Where did such interactions develop? What policies or institutions govern them? Why are they getting certain global and local reactions? You are then apply the framework to the global problems that matter most to human rights abuses, economic inequality, terrorism, forced migration, pandemics and global health responses, climate change, fo

Author

Scott A. (Alexander) Straus, Barry Driscoll

Publisher

Thousand Oaks, California: CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications, Inc.

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781452241197

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.3 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14