Providing precepts intended to stimulate and discipline thought, this book explores issues related to framing research questions, measuring the accuracy of data and uncertainty of empirical inferences, discovering causal effects, and generally improving qualitative research.

Neorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics.

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 volume focuses on the effects of the internationalization of national markets on domestic politics.

An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics.

Discussing a wide variety of security institutions, including NATO, the Western European Union and United Nations peacekeeping, this book describes changes in security institutions. It documents the effects of such institutions on national policies, exploring the patterns of discord and unity.

Focusing on local commons and global interdependence, this book explores the conditions for and possibilities of reaching reciprocal agreements. It develops a theoretical understanding of co-operation and discord at local and global levels, and discusses two key variables that affect outcomes.

An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics.