James M. Scott & Yasemin Akbaba 
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Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World

Chapter 1. World Politics: Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Complicated World
Part I. Theory and Practice
Chapter 2. The Players and the Playing Field: Anarchy, States, and Non-state Actors
Chapter 3. Powerful Ideas: Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism
Chapter 4. Alternative Perspectives on International Relations
Part II. International Security
Chapter 5. Understanding Conflict: The Nature and Causes of Conflict and War
Chapter 6. Seeking Security: Managing Conflict and War
Chapter 7. Building Peace: Structures of Cooperation
Part III. Economic Security
Chapter 8. The Pursuit of Economic Security: Trade, Finance, and Integration
Chapter 9. Economic Statecraft: Sanctions, Aid, and Their Consequences
Chapter 10. International Development: Relations Between the Haves and Have-Nots
Part IV. Human Security
Chapter 11. Human Rights: People, Human Security, and World Politics
Chapter 12. Managing the Global Commons: Whose Responsibility?
Chapter 13. Transnational Advocacy Networks: Changing the World?
Part V. Looking Ahead
Chapter 14. Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in the Balance: Future Directions and Challenges
Appendix of World Maps
Glossary
References
Index

A. Cooper Drury is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science and Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. He earned his BA and MA from Michigan State University (1990, 1992) and his Ph D from Arizona State University (1997). His primary research and teaching interests focus on foreign policy and international political economy. Specifically, he studies the causes, outcomes, and consequences of economic sanctions. Professor Drury has authored or co-authored two books, over two dozen articles and chapters. He won the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award and is the three-time winner of the Frank Klingberg Award for Outstanding Faculty Paper at the ISA-Midwest conference. Professor Drury has trained more than 20 doctoral students at the University of Missouri; in 2016, he received the ISA-Midwest Teaching and Mentoring Award, and in 2006, he received his University’s Gold Chalk Award for excellence in graduate education and mentoring. Professor Drury is very active in the profession. He was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy Analysis, served as the program co-chair for the 2016 ISA conference, he was co-chair of the 2014 WISC/ISA conference, a past-president of both the Foreign Policy Analysis section and ISA-Midwest.