This Edition: Changes and Organization As a result of this text's view that our lives are inescapably affected by world politics, International Politics on the World Stage, Fifth Edition, stresses the impact that world events and international inter-dependence have on your students' lives. In addition to highlighting the effect that the world has on them, this approach includes pointing out to students the con-nection between the events of current history and the theories of international politics that have been conceived and refined by political scientists.