Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.
Contents:
Index. Fareed Zakaria -- Preface to First Edition -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to Third Edition -- Preface to Fourth Edition -- 4. Understanding Interdependence -- Chapter 1. Interdependence in World Politics -- The New Rhetoric of Interdependence -- Interdependence as an Analytic Concept -- Power and Interdependence -- International Regime Change -- Chapter 2. Realism and Complex Interdependence -- The Characteristics of Complex Interdependence -- Multiple Channels -- Absence of Hierarchy among Issues -- Minor Role of Military Force -- The Political Processes of Complex Interdependence -- Linkage Strategies -- Agenda Setting -- Transnational and Transgovernmental Relations -- Role of International Organizations -- Chapter 3. Explaining International Regime Change -- An Economic Process Explanation -- Overall Power Structure Explanation -- Eroding Hegemony -- Limitations of an Overall Structure Explanation -- Issue Structure -- Limitations of Structural Explanations -- An International Organization Model -- Combining Explanations -- Part II. Regime Change in Oceans and Money -- Chapter 4. The Politics of Oceans and Money: Historical Overview -- The International Monetary Issue Area -- The International Gold Standard Before 1914 -- International Monetary Regimes, 1920-76 -- The Oceans Issue Area -- Defining the Issue Area -- The Classical Free Seas Regime -- Regime Periods, 1920-75 -- The Changing Agenda of Oceans Politics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Complex Interdependence in Oceans and Money -- The Conditions of Complex Interdependence -- Role of Force -- Absence of Hierarchy among Issues -- Multiple Channels of Contact -- Money, Oceans, and Complex Interdependence -- The Political Process in Money and Oceans -- Goals of Actors -- Instruments of State Policy -- Agenda Formation -- Linkage of Issues -- Roles of International Organizations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. The Politics of Rule-Making in Oceans and Money -- Economic Processes and Regime Change -- Overall Structure and Regime Change -- Erosion of the Oceans Regime -- International Monetary Regimes -- Issue Structure and Regime Change -- International Monetary Issue Area -- Oceans Politics -- International Organization and Regime Change -- Oceans Politics -- The International Monetary Area -- Limits of Systemic Explanations: Domestic Politics and Leadership -- Conclusion -- Part III. Regimes and Two Bilateral Relationships -- Chapter 7. United States Relations with Canada and Australia -- Canadian-American Relations and Complex Interdependence -- Australian-American Relations and Complex Interdependence -- Identifying Issues and Outcomes: Canada-United States -- Identifying Issues and Outcomes: Australia-United States -- Comparing the Politics of Agenda Formation -- Accounting for Differences in Outcomes -- Regime Change: Alternative Explanations -- Part IV. The United States and Complex Interdependence -- Chapter 8. Coping With Interdependence -- Explanatory Models and Conditions of World Politics -- Power in Complex Interdependence -- Trends Toward Complex Interdependence -- Leadership in Complex Interdependence -- Multiple Leadership and Policy Coordination -- Building the Legitimacy of International Regimes -- International and Domestic Organization -- Conclusion -- Part V. Globalism and the Information Age -- Chapter 9. Power, Interdependence, and the Information Age -- The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence -- Information and Power -- The Paradox of Plenty and the Politics of Credibility -- Chapter 10. Power, Interdependence, and Globalism -- Globalization and Interdependence -- The Dimensions of Globalism -- Thick Globalism: Made in America? -- Connectivity, Sensitivity, Vulnerability -- Illustrating Interdependence and Globalism -- Contemporary Globalism: What's New? -- Density of Networks -- Reduced Communications Costs and Institutional Velocity -- Transnational Participation and Complex Interdependence -- Is Distance Becoming Irrelevant? -- Globalization and the End of the Cold War -- The End of the Cold War and the Dimensions of Globalism -- Conjunctural Politics and The Americanization of Globalism -- Politics, Equity, Power, and Governance -- Globalism and Domestic Politics -- Equity and the Political Effects of Increasing Inequality -- Power and Networks -- Governance of Globalism -- Part VI. Second Thoughts on Theory and Policy (1989) -- Afterword -- 1. Principal Themes of Power and Interdependence -- 2. The Research Program of Power and Interdependence: A Critique -- Interdependence and Bargaining -- Complex Interdependence -- International Regime Change -- 3. Limitations of Structural Theory: Systemic Political Processes -- 4. Perceptions and Learning -- Conclusion -- Two Cheers for Multilateralism -- The Need for Regimes -- Unrealistic Visions -- Do Not Try to Recapture the Past -- Ask Whether the World Really Needs It -- Build on Shared Interests -- Use Regimes to Insure against Catastrophe -- The Best Enforcement Is Self-Enforcement -- Look for the Right Moment -- Use Regimes to Focus U.S. Attention on the Future -- Regime Maintenance -- United Nations Peacekeeping -- International Debt -- Exchange Rates -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
In revising classic works in political science, Longman celebrates the contributions its authors and their research have made to the discipline. The Longman Classics in Political Science series honors these authors and their work. Providing students with an updated context, each title in the series includes a new foreword, written by one of today's top scholars, offering afresh, in-depth analysis of the book and its enduring contributions. A landmark work of international relations theory, Power and Interdependence first published in 1977 and posited a radically comprehensive explanation of the mechanics driving world affairs-"power politics" on one hand and "complex interdependence" on the other hand. This widely influential book reexamined the military and economic interests of state and non-state actors, and in an argument made before the end of the Cold War, the authors broadened the prevailing realist worldview of the time and anticipated many of the developments in our modern era of globalization. With a new preface by the authors and a foreword by Fareed Zakaria that looks at world affairs after the Cold War, the terrorist attacks of September 11, and the global financial crisis, Power and Interdependence is required reading for all students of international relations.
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