Essentials of International Relations

An expanded resource package helps students understand and apply IR theories

The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased stand-alone. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students will succeed in your course.

InQuizitive

InQuizitive, Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive learning tool, helps students understand key concepts and apply them to real-world scenarios.

New scaffolded questions around current events, which directly connect questions based on core concepts of international relations to relevant recent issues and examples.
InQuizitive can help increase world politics students’ quiz scores by 12 percentage points^*.

News Analysis Activities

Innovative News Analysis activities, updated every other week during the semester, help students apply IR theories to current global events.

Each News Analysis activity includes a link to a contemporary news story and assessment.
The News Analysis activities are also supported by suggested activities that instructors can use to address current events in class discussion.

Interactive Ebook

Norton ebooks offer an active reading experience at a fraction of the cost of a print textbook.

NEW bargaining model and game theory activities include the following topics:

Students can take notes, highlight, bookmark, read offline, and quickly search for key terms.
As an instructor, you can add your own notes and highlights for students to review as they read the text.
NEW show/hide self-study questions at the end of each section help students ensure that they understand the material.

Learn how our tools can be used before, during, and after your online or in-person class

1. Course Design

For Students

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For Instructors

On-demand support from a dedicated customer success manager who will consult on course design integrate our tools into your LMS, and provide ongoing support. In a recent survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.

2. Before Class

For Students

Read the interactive ebook. Each chapter begins with a news story “ripped from the headlines,” selected to help students apply the concepts discussed in the chapter to a contemporary problem.

InQuizitive adaptive learning activities help students understand international relations theories and concepts, and apply that knowledge to real-world scenarios and current events outside the textbook.

For Instructors

Instructors tell us that assigning InQuizitive for 10–15 percent of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important concepts. Integration ensures that grades flow into your LMS gradebook.

Suggested activities in our Norton Teaching Tools refresh your syllabus, engage students, and illuminate challenging concepts.

3. After Class

For Students

News Analysis Activities, updated biweekly throughout the semester, link students to real news articles and ask them to apply key course concepts to current events.

For Instructors

Norton Testmaker offers over 700 multiple choice, matching, image-based, true/false, and short answer questions written by coauthor Heather McKibben. Easily export your tests or Norton’s ready-to-use quizzes to Microsoft Word or Common Cartridge files for your LMS.