Global Issues, Tangled Webs

Transnational Concerns in an Interconnected World

Author: Mark Sachleben

The print edition is no longer stocked, but a discounted e-book is available for purchase.

"Using Tangled Webs as part of the title for this book might seem odd. It is meant to convey how several issues, the causes and effects of which cross international barriers, are linked and affected by one another. The issues can be complex and controversial. Governments and organizations will try to solve or mitigate them"--

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The print edition is no longer stocked, but a discounted e-book is available for purchase.

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Global Issues, Tangled Webs: Transnational Concerns in an Interconnected World provides students with an overview and greater understanding of issues and trends in global politics. Global Issues, Tangled Webs demonstrates how some of the most important issues--including climate change, refugee crises, food supply chains, global diseases, transnational crime, and more--are linked to and affected by one another. It also explores how the actions ofgovernments and organizations impact these interrelated issues. Global Issues, Tangled Webs offers a different approach to global politics, examining these complex issues that are common problems and exploring cooperativesolutions to them.

About the Author

Mark Sachleben is Professor of Political Science at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, USA. Global politics, international law and organization, and politics and popular culture are his primary fields of teaching and research. He received his PhD from Miami University in Ohio.