Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World / Edition 1

by James N. Rosenau

Overview

James N. Rosenau explores the enormous changes that are currently transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, new technologies, and evolving global norms are clashing with equally powerful localizing dynamics. The resulting encounters between diverse interests and actors are rendering domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous and creating a political space, designated as the "Frontier," wherein the quest for control in world politics is joined. He contends that it is along the Frontier, and not in the international arena, that issues are contested and the course of events configured.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521587648
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/28/1997
Series:	Cambridge Studies in International Relations , #53
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.06(h) x 1.18(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Intellectual Contexts: 1. Frontiers; 2. Change; 3. Worldviews; Part II. Global Contexts: 4. Turbulence; 5. Globalization; 6. Fragmegration; 7. Boundaries; 8. Governance; 9. Norms; 10. Environments; Part III. Societal Contexts: 11. Sovereignty; 12. Constitutions; 13. Elections; Part IV. Actors: 14. Individuals; 15. Publics; 16. Leaders; 17. Organizations; 18. States; 19. Militaries; 20. The United Nations; Part V. Conclusions: 21. Democracy; 22. War and peace; 23. Exploring governance in a turbulent world.

Editorial Reviews

"Following on his 1990 book, Turbulence in World Politics, the author argues that the way in which we understand international politics must change due to a number of long-term shifts in underlying conditions." Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs

"This study contends that many of the old concepts of international relations no longer provide guidance in an increasingly complex, turbulent world. Rosenau maintains that interstate borders have lost most of their meaning, and he relocates politics and governance from their traditional domestic and international settings to a 'frontier' between the two." Choice

"A complex thesis, arguably at the frontier of relevant political thought." Future Survey

"There is much useful material and analysis here." Peter J. Spiro, The American Journal of International Law

"It is essential reading for anyone interested in the forces that are transforming modern societies at the end of the 20th century." Tony McGrew, American Journal of Sociology

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