Laura Roselle is Professor Emeritz of Political Science and Public Policy at Elon University. She is the co-author of Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order and Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Order.

Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Elon University, where he teaches courses in international political economy, international relations, and comparative politics, and serves as coordinator for the university's Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program. He is the co-author of Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism and author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe.

Sharon Spray is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Public Policy at Elon University.

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Research and Writing in International Relations, Fourth Edition, offers the step-by-step guidance and the essential resources needed to compose political science papers that go beyond description and into systematic and sophisticated inquiry.