Rethinking World Politics is a major intervention into a central debate in international
relations: how has globalization transformed world politics? Most work on world politics still …

World politics is changing, but our conceptual paradigms have not kept pace. The classic
state-centric paradigm assumes that states are the only significant actors in world politics …

The subject of International Relations originally covered simply the relations between states,
for example Britain's relations with India. Economic bodies and social groups, such as …

The idea for this volume began over dinner in Boston in June 1968. With several other nevir
members of the Board of Editors of International Organization we were trying to articulate our …

Bruce Cronin here is a tension within the United Nations between intergovernmentalism and
transnationalism, two forces that encompass different sets of interests and reflect distinct …

What is the relationship between domestic and international politics in a world of economic
interdependence? This article discusses and organizes an emerging body of scholarship …

Non-state actors are heroes and villains in different narratives of international politics.
Idealists often present non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as the vanguard of an …

“As Michel Foucault has famously stated,'knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting'. In this spirit The Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

Recent scholars have broadened the study of transnational relations, once limited to political
economy, to include contentious international politics. This is a refreshing trend, but most of …

This article takes stock of a plethora of recent works examining the flowering of transnational
civil society activism in world politics. The author argues that this work contributes to a …