Books in the New Directions in World Politics series

The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics examines how the difficult issues of social, political, and economic relations will complicate the efforts initiated at the June 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The contributors argue that national governments must begin to acknowledge the role of new actors in their environmental policies.

This text considers the ebb and flow of political power and authority as a function of changes in modes of communication. It examines the emergence of printing and its impact on the transformation of medieval to the modern order and then considers the impact of digital electronic communications.

Analyzes regionalism from a political economy perspective.

How did the USA establish its dominant role in international relations in the second half of the 20th century? What central ideas, policies and methods shaped Cold War international order? These questions are examined in this text - an account of the establishment of global political order.

Attempting to find answers and to come to grips with some of the dilemmas confronting security in the wake of the Cold War, this text represents a wide range of views on changing concepts of security at the turn of the millennium.

A book on the role of gender in international relations.

Neorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics.

Analyzes regionalism from a political economy perspective. This book includes contributors such as: Benjamin J Cohen; Beth V Yarbrough and Robert M Yarbrough; Charles A Kupchan; Edward D Mansfield and Helen V Milner; Edward D Mansfield and Rachel Bronson; Helen V Milner; Joseph M Grieco; Pier Carlo Padoan; and, Stephen Haggard.

Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the complexities of a world undergoing rapid change.

Attempting to find answers and to come to grips with some of the dilemmas confronting security in the wake of the Cold War, this text represents a wide range of views on changing concepts of security at the turn of the millennium.

Essays by prominent political theorists representing the two dominant schools of international relations, neoliberalism and neorealism.