Description:
Approaching the subject from a focussed international and pluralist perspective, this book provides advanced-level treatment of all the core areas to give postgraduate students a wide-ranging and dynamic introduction
Brief description: Bertrand Badie is a French political scientist and international relations specialist. He is a professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and researcher associated with the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI).
Review Quotes:
This is a unique book, filling a genuine void. It is introductory but not meant for undergraduates but for the already educated. In sixteen chapters, it covers, not only the standard content of an introduction to political science book, but also discusses questions of epistemology, methodology and the interdisciplinary nature of the discipline, all with a global perspective. It is likely to become required reading for graduate students in political science who have received their undergraduate training in other disciplines but it would also offer an excellent refresher for those who studied political science as undergraduates.
--Ilter Turan