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.

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.

Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at the issue of child abuse, and examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science.

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.

What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.

This work consists of two parts: The Idea of Public Reason Revisited , published in 1997, and The Law of Peoples , a reworking of an article published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than 50 years of reflection on liberalism and on some pressing problems of our times.