This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or international regimes, through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American hegemony has eroded.

This title offers a critical appraisal of America's role in the present and future. It explains that challenges to America's power will come in the form of the very things that have made the last ten years so prosperous: the information revolution and globalization.

Offering a panoramic view of history and a description of firsthand diplomatic encounters, the former Secretary of State describes his ideas about diplomacy and power balances, showing how national negotiating styles influence outcomes.

Picturing a future of accelerated conflict between civilizations threatening to dominate world politics, this classic study of the post-Cold War situation argues that an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war.

Discusses offensive realism , arguing that states are inherently driven to gain power. The text challenges the assumption that the end of the cold war left the world a safer place, and suggests that when no international authority reigns, hegemony is the only true assurance of security.

E.H. Carr's Twenty Years' Crisis is a classic work in international relations. Published in 1939, on the eve of World War II, it was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work in the fledgling discipline. Edited by Michael Cox, the book has the student in mind.