Human Polity: An Introduction to Political Science

is a book about politics and about the study of politics in a world that is increasingly and irreversibly interdependent. The human polity is the polity—the political community—to which we all belong merely by virtue of living together on the globe. At the same time that we proudly give our first loyalties to the separate nation states that lay claim to our citizenship, we also recognize that there are problems we can resolve only in unison with the citizens of other states. The study of politics has become the study of the web of life on our planet. The Human Polity describes the nature of political science and the way political scientist study politics, and offers introductory treatment of all the major topics we normally think of as constituting political science.