World Politics

Flexible student resources help students apply the concepts

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

Developed and tested by a team of World Politics adopters led by Dustin Tingley (Harvard), with the guidance of the textbook authors, and reviewed by instructors across the country, InQuizitive gets students applying the interests, interactions, and institutions framework.

New scaffolded questions around current events, which directly connect questions based on core concepts of world politics 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, encourage students to analyze current events using the book’s modern framework.

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.

Bargaining Model Activities

New activities help students understand and apply the bargaining models and game theory concepts from the text. Each activity includes an animation, a concept check quiz, and an opportunity to apply the concept to an issue in world politics.

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

The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Comparative Advantage
The Stag Hunt
Chicken
Baseline Bargaining
Bargaining with Shifting Power
Bargaining and First-Strike Advantage

What Instructors and Students are Saying

“I think [InQuizitive] is an incredibly helpful tool for students to test their own knowledge and highly recommend it. Students are most likely to study by re-reading their notes, whereas research shows students learn best by testing themselves. Particularly for introductory-level courses, I would always want this feature in a textbook.”

— Elizabeth Wheat, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

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. A flexible framework structured around interests, interactions, and institutions helps students understand the chapter-opening puzzles and major IR topics.

InQuizitive adaptive learning activities feature new scaffolded questions that get students applying the interests, interactions, and institutions framework to both real-world and fictional examples.

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. During Online, Hybrid, or In-person Class

For Students

Bargaining Model activities help students understand and apply the bargaining models and game theory concepts from the text. Each activity includes an animation, a concept check quiz, and an opportunity to apply the concept to an issue in world politics.

For Instructors

The Instructor’s Manual offers helpful and creative resources for lecture planning and classroom activities, including chapter outlines, teaching suggestions, discussion questions, applications, and “Controversy” boxed feature questions.

Visually engaging Lecture PowerPoint slides cover the concepts and details of each chapter and include classroom lecture notes

4. After Class

For Students

News Analysis Activities, updated biweekly throughout the semester, link students to real news articles and ask them to apply the interests, interactions, and institutions framework to current events.

For Instructors

Norton Testmaker includes over 1,100 matching, multiple-choice, image-based, and short-answer questions. Easily export your tests or Norton’s ready-to-use quizzes to Microsoft Word or your LMS.