Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, peace research, history, geography, globalization studies, international political economy, political psychology, sociology and social theory, linguistics, strategic or war studies and anthropology.

It is now commonly accepted that we live in a knowledge-based society and descriptions of what this means in practice are legion via analysis of the interaction between universities and the economy, business clusters and technopoles and the rise of information technology.

However, few attempts have been made to understand the philosophical roots and political nature of such a society - a complex enactment of contemporary state power through which a modern style of governance cane be exercised.

Central to this is the notion of the internationalization of policy regimes, the...