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I initially drafted this short introduction to international relations as an antidote to many of the larger texts that were out on the topic. While I used many of them in my classes over the years, I found that they had too much material for undergraduates to digest. Hence, I started the preface to the first edition of this text this way: Understanding international relations (IR) is an important part of an undergraduate student’s education, whether as a staple of a political science program, an introductory course in an international relations/international studies track, a class on globalization, or simply as a guide to better understand the world in which he or she lives. Yet, increasingly, international relations texts are chock full of details about theories and ideas that are abstract and seen as removed from reality rather than helping the student apply the theories to the “real world.” I continue to believe that this is true, perhaps more so now than previously, especially if we are to be able to think critically about what is going on around us and try to understand the impact of policy decisions in the short but also longer term. The world seems to be in a state of chaos: global warming has created all sorts of environmental disasters that are not likely to stop unless or until we take action to reverse the pattern; the onset of civil wars has contributed to the movement of people and, with that, increasing hostility toward immigrants, as opposed to compassion for their plight; the end of the war in Afghanistan in August 2021 has contributed to further uncertainty not only about the future of that state and especially the women within it, but as to whether it will lead to a growth of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS, which was allegedly one of the reasons for that war in the first place; and so on. While it might seem easy for countries to work together and fight something like global warming, which affects all of us, the reasons why that is not the case are worth exploring and that students should be thinking about. This third edition is organized much as the first two were: around levels of analysis and the major theories and actors that govern the field of international relations. However, I have also updated the book to include a section on the role of the media as a nonstate actor that has taken an increasingly important part in the current political discourse, and a section on civil society, which has also come to play an important role in nations’ behavior. I included another section on the role of perceptions in international relations because, as I have often told my students, “perceptions become reality.” And I added a new case in chapter 6 on the women, peace, and security agenda, as well as significantly updating and reworking the other three cases. I think that the result is an updated study of the current international environment.