Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World [Hardcover]

James Rosenau explores the enormous changes in both national and international political systems which are currently transforming world affairs.In this book James Rosenau explores the enormous changes which are currently transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, shared norms and new technology are rendering the boundaries between domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous. He examines the diverse interests and actors which attempt to exercise control over one another on the frontier between domestic and foreign affairs, and concludes that it is through these encounters, and not the nation-state, that the substance of world politics is conducted.In this book James Rosenau explores the enormous changes which are currently transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, shared norms and new technology are rendering the boundaries between domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous. He examines the diverse interests and actors which attempt to exercise control over one another on the frontier between domestic and foreign affairs, and concludes that it is through these encounters, and not the nation-state, that the substance of world politics is conducted.James N. Rosenau explores the enormous changes that are currently transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, new technologies, and evolving global norms are clashing with equally powerful localizing dynamics. The resulting encounters between diverse interests and actors are rendering domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous and creating a political space, designated as the Frontier, wherein the quest for control in world politics is joined. He contends that it is along the Frontier, and not in the international arena, that issues are contested and the course of events configured.Part I. Intellectual Contexts: 1. Frontiers; 2. Change; 3. Worldviews; Part II. Global Contexts: 4. Turbulence; 5. Glls$