Power, the State, and Sovereignty Essays on International Relations [Paperback]

Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades.Power, the State, and Sovereigntyis a collection of his key scholarly works. The book includes both a framing introduction written for this volume, and a concluding essay examining the relationship between academic research and the actual making of foreign policy.

 Drawing on both his extensive academic work and his experiences during his recent role within the Bush administration (as Director for Policy Planning at the US State department) Krasner has revised and updated all of the essays in the collection to provide a coherent discussion of the importance of power, ideas, and domestic structures in world politics.

Progressing through a carefully structured evaluation of US domestic politics and foreign policy, international politics and finally sovereignty, this volume is essential reading for all serious scholars of international politics.

 

1. Introduction  2. Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables  3. International Political Economy: Abiding Discord  4. State Power and the Structure of International Trade  5. Global Communications and National Power  6. Globalization and Sovereignty  7. Defending the national interest: raw materials investments, and US. foreign policy  8. Sovereignty: organized hypocrisy  9. Organized Hypocrisy in 19^thCentury East Asia  10. Logics of Consequences and Appropriateness in the International System  11. Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics  12. Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective  13. Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States  14.lƒ4