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ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT LIMITED AND UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SUPPLIES PROVIDE FOR POTENTIAL VIOLENT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT IN THE NEXT DECADE, THE AUTHOR REVIEWS THE STATE OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND; THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; AND SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD.

Hegemony and Democracy is constructed around the question of whether hegemony is sustainable, especially when the hegemon is a democratic state. The book draws on earlier publications over Bruce Russett's long career and features new chapters that show the continuing relevance of his scholarship. In examining hegemony during and after the Cold War, it addresses: The importance of domestic politics in the formulation of foreign policy; The benefits and costs of seeking security through military power at the expense of expanding networks of shared national and transnational institutions; The incentives of other states to bandwagon with a strong but unthreatening hegemon and 'free-ride' on benefits it may provide rather than to balance against a powerful hegemon. The degree to which hegemony and democracy undermine or support each other. By applying theories of collective action and foreign policy, Russett explores the development of American hegemony and the prospects for a democratic hegemon to retain its influence during the coming decades. This collection is an essential volume for students and scholars of International Relations, American Politics, and US Foreign Policy.

A more democratic, interdependent world has seen a marked decline in armed conflicts.

Democracy, trade, and international organizations and norms … have been powerful factors in greatly reducing war across much of the world.

In memoriam of Holt Bradford Westerfield.

In this Top Twenty Commentaries section of the Centennial Issues of the journal, the Karl W. Deutsch reviews his highly cited article Social Mobilization & Political Development(1961).The importance of the article to a transnational generation of scholars of comparative politics & international is delineated in terms of Deutsch's theory of nationalism through social mobilization of repressed ethnic & social groups. A brief biography traces the author's humanistic education as a European intellectual, & the study of mathematics that impacted his use of data as "aids to political judgment, not as substitutes for it." The article's focus on aggregate data is asserted to account for the drop in citations over the last five years, but is concluded to be an important artifact of the intellectual history of political science. References. J. Harwell