Globalization and State Power : Who Wins When America Rules?

This new offering in our ''Great Questions in Politics'' series by best selling comparative politics author, Joel Krieger, is a great complement in any course that covers the increasingly popular issue of globalization. Unique to its field, this is the only book that examines the relationship between globalization and state power - how globalization shapes the role, behavior, and functions of states--and how states, in turn, can--or cannot--shape the global political order.

Features

• Presents contemporary high-profile debates about the decline of the nation-state in a world shaped by unrivaled American power–and links these debates to a wide range of extremely current events and conflicts. Even-handed treatments of major players in the debate about globalization, state power, and the new American empire, including: Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Joseph Stiglitz, and John Mearsheimer.
• Presents three original and compelling alternative theses on globalization, state power, and empire which are certain to generate extremely productive debates in classes - as readers are encouraged to reach their own interpretations of some of the most important political issues of our day.
• Compelling and authoritative case studies of: globalization, the exercise of American power, and the implications for domestic politics in the U.S.; the challenges that global competitiveness and American power bring to EU Europe at a time of enlargement and increasing strains on its high-cost social protection models of government; East Asia, the 1997 economic crisis, and the paradox of state power.
• Lauded by reviewers for a lively and accessible writing style.
• Provides a clear, balanced, and compelling account of an alternative response to 9/11 that would meet the terror threats and yet enhance the role of international law; discusses the role of the United Nations and outlines a path to achieve necessary reforms of the Security Council.
• Astonishingly up-to-date: with coverage of EU constitutional debates, the assault on schoolchildren in Beslan, Russia; the installation of the Allawi interim government in Iraq and the increasingly desperate security situation; and (believe it or not!) comments inserted after the presidential election on the implications of the outcome for American foreign policy.