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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Purpose of Force -- 2. Sovereign Default and Military Intervention -- 3. Changing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention -- 4. Intervention and International Order -- 5. How Purpose Changes -- Appendix: Measuring Material Distribution of Power -- Index

Edited by Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein, this book asks scholars to reflect on the role power plays in contemporary politics and how a power politics approach is influential today. The arguments made by the authors in the volume speak to one of three themes that run through Krasner's work: state power and hegemony; the relationship between states and markets; and conceptions of the nation state in international politics

On February 16, 2016, a U.S. court ordered Apple to circumvent the security features of an iPhone 5C used by one of the terrorists who committed the San Bernardino shootings. Apple refused. It argued that breaking encryption for one phone could not be done without undermining the security of encryption more generally. It made a public appeal for "everyone to step back and consider the implications" of having a "back door" key to unlock any phone—which governments (and others) could deploy to track users or access their data. The U.S. government eventually withdrew its suit after the F.B.I. hired an outside party to access the phone. But the incident sparked a wide-ranging debate over the appropriate standards of behavior for companies like Apple and for their customers in constructing and using information and communication technologies (ICTs). That debate, in turn, is part of a much larger conversation. Essential as the Internet is, "rules of the road" for cyberspace are often unclear and have become the focus of serious conflicts.

In their essay 'The End of Hypocrisy' (November/December 2013), Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore argue that the biggest threat from leakers of classified information such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden is that 'they undermine Washington's ability to act hypocritically and get away with it.' According to Farrell and Finnemore, the more than 750,000 diplomatic cables and incident reports leaked by Manning and the highly classified material disclosed by Snowden have provided 'documented confirmation ... of what the United States is actually doing and why.' Thus, the country will find itself 'less able to deny the gaps between its actions and its words ... and may ultimately be compelled to start practicing what it preaches.'. Adapted from the source document.