Power, the State, and Sovereignty: Essays on International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415774833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 314 str.

Stephen D. Krasner

Opis

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 Sovereignty is 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.

Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades; listed among the top twenty in the recent International Relations survey. More recently he has had an important role within the Bush administration as Director for Policy Planning at the US State department.

This book is a collection of his key academic work as well as a meditation on his time in office.

Spis treści

Introduction: Actors and Institutions in the Study of International Politics  Part 1: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy  1. Defending the National Interest  2. US Commercial and Monetary Policy: Unravelling the Paradox of External Strength and Internal Weakness  3. Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics  4. Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective  Part 2: International Politics  5. Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables  6. State Power and the Structure of International Trade  7. Global Communications and National Power: Life On the Pareto Frontier  Part 3: Sovereignty  8. Sovereignty and Its Discontents  9. Organized Hypocrisy in Nineteenth Century East Asia  10. Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions For Collapsed and Failing States.  Conclusion: Garbage Cans and Policy Streams: How Academic Research Might Affect Foreign Policy

O autorze

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.