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

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. Actors And Institutions In The Study Of International Politics -- Defending The National Interest -- Us Commercial And Monetary Policy : Unravelling The Paradox Of External Strength And Internal Weakness -- Approaches To The State : Alternative Conceptions And Historical Dynamics -- Sovereignty : An Institutional Perspective -- Structural Causes And Regime Consequences : Regimes As Intervening Variables -- State Power And The Structure Of International Trade -- Global Communications And National Power : Life On The Pareto Frontier -- Sovereignty And Its Discontents -- Organized Hypocrisy In Nineteenth-century East Asia -- Sharing Sovereignty : New Institutions For Collapsed And Failing States -- Garbage Cans And Policy Streams : How Academic Research Might Affect Foreign Policy. Stephen D. Krasner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [275]-296) And Index. Defending the national interest -- US commercial and monetary policy : unravelling the paradox of external strength and internal weakness -- Approaches to the state : alternative conceptions and historical dynamics -- Sovereignty : an institutional perspective -- Structural causes and regime consequences : regimes as intervening variables -- State power and the structure of international trade -- Global communications and national power : life on the Pareto frontier -- Sovereignty and its discontents -- Organized hypocrisy in nineteenth century East Asia -- Sharing sovereignty : new institutions for collapsed and failing states -- Conclusion : garbage cans and policy streams : how academic research might affect foreign policy Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades.€ This book is a collection of his key academic work as well as a meditation on his time in office