International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues Softcover - 2008

Sheldon Anderson is professor of history and international studies at Miami University. He has published several articles and two books: A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962 (Westview Press, 2000), and A Dollar to Poland is a Dollar to Russia: United States Economic Policy Toward Poland, 1945-1952 (Garland Press, 1993). Jeanne A.K. Hey is director of international studies and professor of political science at Miami University of Ohio. Her books include Theories of Dependent Foreign Policy and the Case of Ecuador in the 1980s (Ohio University Press), Small States in World Politics: Explaining Foreign Policy Behavior (Lynne Rienner), and (with Frank O. Mora) Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy (Rowman and Littlefield). Her journal articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Mershon International Studies Review, Studies in Comparative International Development and elsewhere. Mark Allen Peterson is associate professor of anthropology and international studies at Miami University. He is the author of Anthropology and Mass Communication (Berghahn 2003). He has published articles in Anthropology Today, Anthropological Quarterly, Childhood, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, Teaching Anthropology, and Alif: the Journal of Contemporary Poetics. He has chapters in several books, including the Encyclopedia of Anthropology (Sage 2005), At War With Words (Walter de Gruyter 2003), Media Anthropology (Sage 2005), and Filmic Folklore (Utah State University Press, 2007). Stanley W. Toops is associate professor of geography and international studies at Miami University. He has written a number of articles that have appeared in journals such as Inner Asia, Central Asian Survey, Focus on Geography, Journal of Cultural Geography, Central Asiatic Journal, Annals of Tourism Research and in books such as the edited volumes Tourism in China (Westview Press, 1995), Changing China (Westview Press, 2003), Understanding Contemporary China, and Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland.