Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Relations at Duke University. He has also taught at Stanford and Harvard. His recent publications include After the Cold War (Harvard University Press: 1993) and Internationalization and Domestic Politics (Cambridge University Press: 1996)

• 1. Introduction: From interdependence and institutions to globalization and governance Part 1: Interdependence and Institutions 2. International Institutions: Can interdependence work? 3. International Liberalism Reconsidered 4. Hobbe's Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in international society 5. Risk, Threat and Security Institutions Part 2: Law 6. International Relations and International Law: Two optics 7. The Concept of Legalization 8. Legalized Dispute Resolution: Interstate and transnational Part 3: Globalism, Liberalism and Governance 9. Governance in a Globalizing World 10. The Club Model of Multilateral Cooperation and Problems of Democratic Legitimacy 11. Governance in a Partially Globalized World 12. Afterword: The globalization of informal violence, theories of world politics and the 'liberalism of fear'

'Detailed examination of the role of power in our increasingly globalized world.'Review Brief