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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Nation-States in History -- PART 1. NATIONAL IDENTITIES -- Chapter 1. Nationalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Liberal Democratic State -- Chapter 2. What States Can Do with Nations: An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation? -- Chapter 3. A State without a Nation? Russia after Empire -- Chapter 4. The Return of the Coercive State: Behavioral Control in Multicultural Society -- PART 2. STATE SECURITY -- Chapter 5. States, Security Function, and the New Global Forces -- Chapter 6. States and War in Africa -- PART 3. STATE AUTONOMY -- Chapter 7. National Legislatures in Common Markets: Autonomy in the European Union and Mercosur -- Chapter 8. The Tax State in the Information Age -- Chapter 9. States, Politics, and Globalization: Why Institutions Still Matter -- Chapter 10. Globalization, the State, and Industrial Relations: Common Challenges, Divergent Transitions -- PART 4. STATE CAPACITY -- Chapter 11. The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 12. Rotten from Within: Decentralized Predation and Incapacitated State -- Conclusion. What States Can Do Now -- Contributors -- Index

Kalevi Holsti asks what do we mean by change in international politics? How do we identify it? How do we distinguish between significant and unimportant changes? Do we really live in a new era or do we see more continuity than transformation in the texture of international politics?

This volume gathers together international scholars to reconsider the conceptualization of power in world politics. Arguing that the importance of power in international relations is underestimated, the book presents and employs a taxonomy of power that embraces agency, institutions, structure and discourse

Introduction 1-11. - Liberalism - In Theory and History 15-32. - Liberalism, Democracy, and International Law - An English School Approach 33-50. - Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? Dystopic Liberalism and the International Order 51-66. - Rising Powers: A Realist Analysis 67-87. - The Liberal International Order and Its Discontents 91-102. - Power and the Liberal Order 103-116. - American Statecraft in an Era of Domestic Polarisation 117-144. - Neoconservatism, Neoclassical Realism, and the Narcissism of Small Differences 145-166. - The Liberal International Order Reconsidered 167-186. - The Paradox of Liberalism in a Globalising World 189-214. - Debating China's Rise in China 215-235. - The Export of Liberalism to Russia 236-252. - Liberal Theory and European Integration 253-269. - Beyond Liberalism? Reflections from the Middle East 270-287. - Conclusion 288-297

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Challenges to Bilateralism: Changing Foes, Capital Flows, and Complex Forums -- PART I. STRATEGY AND SECURITY -- 2. America in East Asia: Power, Markets, and Grand Strategy -- 3. U.S.-Japan Security Relations-Toward Bilateralism Plus? -- 4. Terms of Engagement: The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China -- 5. American and Japanese Strategies in Asia: Dealing with ASEAN -- PART II. ECONOMIC FLOWS -- 6. Capital Flows and Financial Markets in Asia: National, Regional, or Global? -- 7. When Strong Ties Fail: U.S.-Japanese Manufacturing Rivalry in Asia -- 8. Japan's Counterweight Strategy: U.S.- Japan Cooperation and Competition in International Finance -- 9. Japan and the Evolution of Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia -- PART III. MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS -- 10. At Play in the Legal Realm: The WTO and the Changing Nature of U.S.-Japan Antidumping Disputes -- 11. Japan, the United States, and Multilateral Institution-Building in the Asia-Pacific: APEC and the ARF -- 12. The United States and Japan in APEC's EVSL Negotiations: Regional Multilateralism and Trade -- 13. Conclusion: Beyond Bilateralism- Toward Divided Dependence -- Notes -- References -- Index