Power, the State, and Sovereignty

Stephen D. Krasner is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Hoover Institution. He has served as Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department and on the National Security Council staff. He has written on US foreign policy, north-south relations and sovereignty and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Introduction: Actors and Institutions in the Study of International Politics Part 1: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy 1. Defending the National Interest 2. US Commercial and Monetary Policy: Unravelling the Paradox of External Strength and Internal Weakness 3. Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics 4. Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective Part 2: International Politics 5. Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables 6. State Power and the Structure of International Trade 7. Global Communications and National Power: Life On the Pareto Frontier Part 3: Sovereignty 8. Sovereignty and Its Discontents 9. Organized Hypocrisy in Nineteenth Century East Asia 10. Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions For Collapsed and Failing States. Conclusion: Garbage Cans and Policy Streams: How Academic Research Might Affect Foreign Policy