World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions

New perspectives and tools enrich the 3Is framework

With its innovative 3Is framework—interests, interactions, and institutions—the Sixth Edition of World Politics takes a contemporary approach to international relations, presenting students with compelling puzzles about the world around them.

New co-authors Susan Hyde (University of California, Berkeley) and Stephanie Rickard (London School of Economics) bring fresh insights to the international political economy chapters, as well as to emerging topics including human migration, human rights, and the environment. A new Norton Illumine Ebook provides an interactive environment where students can read, learn, and apply the 3Is framework to examples from the text and beyond.

Highlights of the Sixth Edition’s new content:

• New co-authors Stephanie Rickard and Susan Hyde bring a next-generation approach to the 3Is framework, offering fresh perspectives on international political economy and emerging areas of scholarship, including human rights, deglobalization, and the environment.
• Significantly revised chapters include Chapter 7, Cross-Border Flows of Goods and Services; Chapter 8, Cross-Border Flows of Money and People; Chapter 11, International Law and Norms; Chapter 12, Human Rights; and Chapter 13, The Global Environment.
• Contemporary themes—including democratic backsliding, the rise of authoritarianism, and the spread of populism—are integrated throughout the text.
• New and revised What Shaped Our World? and How Do We Know? features use the 3Is framework to explore historical and contemporary events and data.
• A new Norton Illumine Ebook offers an interactive learning experience with end-of-section Check Your Understanding questions that reinforce key concepts and help students apply the 3Is framework.

Jeffry Frieden is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University and Professor of Government emeritus at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second updated edition 2020); of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Frieden is also the author of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965–1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications.

David A. Lake is presently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, San Diego. He was formerly the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences (2010–2024) and Distinguished Professor of Political Science (2009–2024). The author and co-editor of numerous books and over 100 articles and chapters, he has published widely in international relations theory and international political economy. His most recent book is Indirect Rule: The Making of U.S. International Hierarchy (2024). He has served as President of the American Political Science Association (2016–2017) and President of the International Studies Association (2010–2011). The recipient of UCSD Chancellor’s Associates Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education (2005) and Excellence in Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (2013), he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

Kenneth A. Schultz is William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research examines international conflict and conflict resolution, with particular focus on the domestic political influences on foreign policy choices. He is the author of Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy, as well as numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. He received the 2003 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association, and the 2011 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching from Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences.

Susan D. Hyde is a Professor of Political Science and Robson Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has served as the co-director of the Institute of International Studies (2021-present), Chair of the Department of Political Science (AY 2021–2014), and the elected Executive Director of the Evidence in Governance and Politics Research Network (2016–2018). Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was a professor at Yale University from 2006–2016, and held residential fellowships at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. Her work has been published widely on international norms, democracy promotion, global governance, and the global diffusion of elections and threats to democracy.

Stephanie Rickard is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. Her research explores issues at the intersection of politics and international economics, including global trade, subsidies, industrial policy, and financial rescues. Her award-winning book, Spending to Win (Cambridge University Press), examines how economic geography shapes national policies and international economic relations. Beyond academia, she actively engages in policy debates, including shaping the UK’s subsidy control regime. Having lived and worked in several countries, she offers a global perspective on the complex interplay between politics and economics.