1st Edition
Power, the State, and Sovereignty Essays on International Relations
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 19th Century 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. From academy to policy – A View from the Inside
Biography
Stephen D. Krasner is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Hoover Institution. He has served as Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department and on the National Security Council staff. He has written on US foreign policy, north-south relations and sovereignty and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"Few scholars match Stephen Krasner in incisive analysis of central issues of world politics. These essays make strong arguments without following any party line, and even those who have read them before will benefit from seeing how they fit together."
--Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University
"Stephen Krasner is one of the most widely acclaimed scholars of international relations of the past century. This collection features in a single volume his most important and enduring works, along with an integrative introductory essay and a conclusion that reflects on his time in government service. Power, the State, and Sovereignty is a "must have" book for any serious student of international politics."
--David Lake, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
