Globalization and State Power: A Reader

A great standalone reader or complement to Krieger’s new text, Globalization and State Power: Who Wins When America Rules?  This book brings together selections by premier scholars that analyze how globalization has recast state power in a world where America sets the global agenda.

General Introduction.

Part I. Globalization and State Power: Competing Paradigms.

Part Introduction.

 

1. Thomas L. Friedman, “The New System,” The Lexus and the Olive Tree.

2. Samuel P. Huntington, “The New Era in World Politics”, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.

3. Joseph P. Stiglitz, “Broken Promises,” Globalization and Its Discontents.

4.John J. Mearsheimer, “Anarchy and the Struggle for Power,” The Tragedy of Great   Power Politics.

5. Saskia Sassen, “Global Cities and Survival Circuits,” Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russsell Hochschild, eds. Global Woman.

Part Introduction.

 

6. Stephen D. Krasner, “Sovereignty and Its Discontents,” Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy.

7. David Held, “Political Globalization, Global Covenant.

8. Paul Carmichael, “Briefing Paper: Multi-level Governance.”

Part Introduction.

 

Globalization and the Exercise of American Power.

9. G. John Ikenberry, “Liberal hegemony and the future of the American postwar order,” from T.V. Paul  and John A. Hall, eds. International Order and the Future of World Politics.

10. Robert Hunter Wade, America's Empire Rules an Unbalanced World.

11. Joseph P. Nye, “Redefining the National Interest,” The Paradox of American Power.

12. Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay,  America  Unbound: The Bush Reveoplution in Foreign Policy.

 

Globalization and European Integration.

13. George Ross, "European Integration and Globalization".

14. David P. Calleo, "Europe in the New World Order".

15. Kalypso Nicolaïdis, “We, the Peoples of Europe…,” Foreign Affairs.

 

East Asia: the Paradox of State Power.

16. T.J. Pempel, “Introduction,” T.J. Pempel, ed. The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis.

17. Linda Weiss, "State Power and the Asian Crisis," New Political Economy.

18. Claude Smadja, “The End of Complacency,” Foreign Policy.

Part Introduction.

 

Globalization, Terror and the Use of Force.

19. Audrey Kurth Cronin, “Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism,” International Security.

20. The National Security Strategy of the United States of America.

21. John Lewis Gaddis, “A Grand Strategy of Transformation,” Foreign Policy.

22. Chris Brown, “Self-Defense in an Imperfect World, “Ethics & International Affairs.  

23. International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, “The Responsibility to Protect: The Way Forward,” The Responsibility To Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.

Globalization, Empire, and America's Geopolitical Strategy.

24. Niall Ferguson, “The Empire Slinks Back,” The New York Times Magazine.

25. Michael Ignatieff, “Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?), New York Times Magazine.

26. Zbigniew Brzezinski, “Domination or Leadership,” The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership.