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Does anyone on this board (there are so many people with various interests here..) know a title of a decent International Relations/Politics textbook that I could use to augment the biased textbook assigned for my class?

The book I was assigned is 'International Politics on the World Stage' by John T. Rourke. I am five chapters into it, and the author is obviously a globalist/idealist/drama-dude. He quotes Shakespeare. =0

"Will nationalism persist "until the last syllable of recorded time," to borrow words from Shakespeare's Macbeth? The answer is that the script for tomorrow's drama on the world stage is still being written by the world's political playwrights"... Am I strange for thinking that the author is talking down to me?

Besides Morgenthau, where should I look?

Try http://www.hillsdale.edu and look into their course book offerings.

Kevin, it sounds like that author complains too much. Remember the Streetsoldier's advice. Spoon feed the mush right back to the prof in the tests, while maintaining your integrity. Good luck!

Thanks for the link streetsoldier. I haven't been able to find specific course textbooks, but did find their online bookstore.

Coriolis, the author repeatedly says things as if there was a significant measure of support for an issue which I am pretty sure there is not consensus on, or overstates aspects of situations. Its not lying, but its a slanted text. The whole book is his attempt to form a divide with the presentation of an old-tradtional road and a new-progressive road. While I am all for progress, I find myself wanting to know more about the traditional road than what some feminist thinks about war. Thanks for your well wishes! I can't let this idol the gpa fall because of a textbook so no worries.

Bumping your own thread is against netiquette.

How are you liking college Kevin? You had better get use to the crap the liberals try feed you the next few years. Go along with their BS until you graduate, if you try to fight them you will not get good grades. Been there done that.....MGC

It beats high school! So far I've got straight A's, and the library is awesome. Now its only community college, so the hard stuff in two more semesters away.

The liberal bias in education is very apparent. Thankfully I learned a while ago that books are more important to learning than lectures.