Miller relates a funny and moving story of a young professor in Las Vegas who inadvertently gets caught up in a whirlwind of intrigue and corruption. This fast-moving true story features bizarre characters, reminiscent of Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

This ground-breaking book demonstrates that the decentralized decision-making processes characteristic of democracies are responsible for making them the most successful countries in the world. architecture, and industrial organization to demonstrate that the more equally power is distributed in society, the closer government policy comes to maximizing aggregate social welfare. It also analyzes political business cycles, economic growth rates, trade protectionism, and military spending levels throughout the world, presenting a wealth of cross-national statistical evidence in support of the...

Realist theory has dominated the study of international relations for more than half a century. In this provocative book, Lee Ryan Miller demonstrates that each of the fundamental assumptions of realism is seriously flawed. Then he pulls together the strands of a number of phenomena that cannot be explained by realism - the development of the European Union, the phenomenon of democratic peace, and the economic success of democratic states - to develop a liberal theory of international relations.