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Title: weak
Review: This book is disappointing.The book starts with, and then each chapter returns rather clunkily to, the division between liberalists, realists, radicalists, etc.As in:This is the international system. This is how liberalists see it...and realists...and radicalists...This is war and strife. This is how liberalists see it... and realists...etc.You get the idea!This makes for a fatally dull and "heavy" approach to a discipline that can be so exciting if handled properly. Mingst gives students the impression that the whole point of IR is trying to decide which of the -isms is the most valid.It would have been much better to take a less theory-laden approach in the early chapters, allowing students to come up with their own explanations/interpretations of things, and then introduce all the -isms in later chapters.Finally, the book is just not very clearly written. More than once I was at a loss to explain sentences that my students asked me to explain.
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