International Relations Theory offers a unique approach to help students think conceptually and critically about how our contemporary world of diverse state and non-state actors works, but also the implications of domestic and global changes. The seventh edition covers current IR theory images (realism, liberalism, economic-structuralism, and the English School), interpretive understandings (constructivist, feminist, postmodern, critical theory, and green theory), normative considerations, and intellectual foundations from the ancient world to the modern era.

Mark V. Kauppi is associate adjunct professor with the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2016 after a thirty-year career which included assignments as professor at the National Intelligence University and chief of a Department of Defense/intelligence community counterterrorism training program for analysts and managers.