No one social science can adequately provide explanations and solutions for problems that transcend national boundaries, such as international conflict, political and economic development, ethnic conflict, and terrorism. This core text is the first to provide a much-needed interdisciplinary method for presenting the varied global issues and regions necessary to understand international studies. The authors include a geographer, a historian, a political scientist, and an anthropologist, and, while emphasizing their interconnectedness, they detail the methodologies and subject matter of each of their disciplines to provide a fuller understanding of the world. They then apply these disciplines to regional chapters and describe the issues facing these regions and their relationship to the global community. In addition, numerous case studies also give students a closer look at the geographic, historical, cultural, economic, and political elements of issues such as genocide and national identity.