Notable scholars explore James Rosenau's postinternational paradigm--an alternative view to traditional international relations.

This book examines the troubled modern nation–state and reflects on the “end” of authority, sovereignty, and national security, and the implications of that end in the coming decades.

Showcases diverse theoretical approaches in the emerging area of global governance.

Analyses the effectiveness of economic sanctions as instruments of statecraft.

Examines how developing countries have restructured their telecommunications in order to "leapfrog" or accelerate development.

Explores the emerging political economy of the former Soviet Union.

Analyzes factors that both drive and impede the establishment of transnational markets at the level of the nation state.

Explores in detail the degree to which private sector firms are beginning to replace governments in "governing" some areas of international relations.

Provides a critique and an extention of the "democratic peace" theory by focusing on the regional level and by offering alternative explanations for the maintenance of democratic and non-democratic "zones of peace. "

Examines the prospects for collective management of international conflict, identifying the international and domestic conditions under which it will and will not tend to work and exploring whether the end of the Cold War will make its success more or less likely than before.

Examines Caribbean countries' impact on the U. S. and the world and how they have consolidated their democracies, advanced prosperity, and maintained peace through collective security and international cooperation.

The first comprehensive political-science treatment of the global politics and diplomacy of intellectual property and antitrust, with focus on relations between developing and industrialized countries.

A disciplinary history of the field of international relations from its emergence in the mid-1800s until the outbreak of World War II.

Argues that the transformation of our world into a global society is causing a resurgence of tribalism at the same time that it is inspiring the ideology of political holism and global interdependence.