Power and Interdependence

by Keohane, Robert O.; Nye, Joseph S.

• ISBN13: 9780321048578
• ISBN10: 0321048571
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This landmark book, an original work by two of the most renowned scholars in the field, continues to offer a rich theoretical approach to understanding contemporary world politics and valid general prescriptions for policy.Power and Interdependencewas written to construct a way of looking at the world of politics that helps us understand the relationships between economics and politics, and patterns of institutionalized international cooperation, while retaining key realist insights about the roles that power and interests play in world politics. The new Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to include analyses of the effects of new technologies and growing globalism on power and interdependence in today's world.For those interested in international relations and politics.

Table of Contents

Preface to First Edition	viii
Preface to Second Edition	xi
Preface to Third Edition	xv
Part I Understanding Interdependence	1	(52)
Interdependence in World Politics	3	(17)
The New Rhetoric of Interdependence	5	(2)
Interdependence as an Analytic Concept	7	(2)
Power and Interdependence	9	(8)
International Regime Change	17	(3)
Realism and Complex Interdependence	20	(13)
The Characteristics of Complex Interdependence	21	(4)
Multiple Channels	22	(1)
Absence of Hierarchy among Issues	22	(1)
Minor Role of Military Force	23	(2)
The Political Processes of Complex Interdependence	25	(8)
Linkage Strategies	26	(1)
Agenda Setting	27	(2)
Transitional and Transgovernmental Relations	29	(1)
Role of International Organizations	30	(3)
Explaining International Regime Change	33	(20)
An Economic Process Explanation	33	(3)
Overall Power Structure Explanation	36	(7)
Eroding Hegemony	36	(4)
Limitations of an Overall Structure Explanation	40	(3)
Issue Structure	43	(4)
Limitations of Structural Explanations	45	(2)
An International Organization Model	47	(3)
Combining Explanations	50	(3)
Part II Regime Change in Oceans and Money	53	(90)
The Politics of Oceans and Money: Historical Overview	55	(31)
The International Monetary Issue Area	57	(18)
The International Gold Standard before 1914	58	(5)
International Monetary Regimes, 1920-76	63	(12)
The Oceans Issue Area	75	(10)
Defining the Issue Area	76	(2)
The Classical Free Seas Regime	78	(2)
Regime Periods, 1920-75	80	(3)
The Changing Agenda of Oceans Politics	83	(2)
Conclusion	85	(1)
Complex Interdependence in Oceans and Money	86	(26)
The Conditions of Complex Interdependence	86	(11)
Role of Force	86	(5)
Absence of Hierarchy among Issues	91	(4)
Multiple Channels of Contract	95	(2)
Money, Oceans, and Complex Interdependence	97	(1)
The Political Process in Money and Oceans	97	(12)
Goals of Actors	99	(4)
Instruments of State Policy	103	(1)
Agenda Formation	104	(2)
Linkage of Issues	106	(1)
Roles of International Organizations	107	(2)
Conclusion	109	(3)
The Politics of Rule-Making in Oceans and Money	112	(31)
Economic Processes and Regime Change	112	(2)
Overall Structure and Regime Change	114	(6)
Erosion of the Oceans Regime	115	(2)
International Monetary Regimes	117	(3)
Issue Structure and Regime Change	120	(6)
International Monetary Issue Area	121	(3)
Oceans Politics	124	(2)
International Organization and Regime Change	126	(6)
Oceans Politics	128	(3)
The International Monetary Area	131	(1)
Limits of Systemic Explanations: Domestic Politics and Leadership	132	(5)
Conclusion	137	(6)
Part III Regimes and Two Bilateral Relationships	143	(48)
United States Relations with Canada and Australia	145	(46)
Canadian-American Relations and Complex Interdependence	146	(5)
Australian-American Relations and Complex Interdependence	151	(5)
Identifying Issues and Outcomes: Canada-United States	156	(13)
Identifying Issues and Outcomes: Australia-United States	169	(5)
Comparing the Politics of Agenda Formation	174	(2)
Accounting for Differences in Outcomes	176	(6)
Regime Change: Alternative Explanations	182	(9)
Part IV The United States and Complex Interdependence	191	(22)
Coping with Interdependence	193	(20)
Explanatory Models and Conditions of World Politics	193	(3)
Power in Complex Interdependence	196	(1)
Trends Toward Complex Interdependence	197	(3)
Leadership in Complex Interdependence	200	(2)
Multiple Leadership and Policy Coordination	202	(2)
Building the Legitimacy of International Regimes	204	(1)
International and Domestic Organization	205	(6)
Conclusion	211	(2)
Part V Globalism and the Information Age	213	(52)
Power, Interdependence, and the Information Age	215	(13)
The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence	217	(3)
Information and Power	220	(3)
The Paradox of Plenty and the Politics of Credibility	223	(5)
Power, Interdependence, and Globalism	228	(37)
Globalization and Interdependence	229	(11)
The Dimensions of Globalism	230	(3)
Thick Globalism: Made in America?	233	(2)
Connectivity, Sensitivity, Vulnerability	235	(3)
Illustrating Interdependence and Globalism	238	(2)
Contemporary Globalism: What's New?	240	(9)
Density of Networks	240	(3)
Reduced Communications Costs and Institutional Velocity	243	(2)
Transnational Participation and Complex Interdependence	245	(2)
Is Distance Becoming Irrelevant?	247	(2)
Globalization and the End of the Cold War	249	(3)
The End of the Cold War and the Dimensions of Globalism	249	(2)
Conjunctural Politics and the Americanization of Globalism	251	(1)
Politics, Equity, Power, and Governance	252	(13)
Globalism and Domestic Politics	252	(2)
Equity and the Political Effects of Increasing Inequality	254	(3)
Power and Networks	257	(1)
Governance of Globalism	258	(7)
Part VI Second Thoughts on Theory and Policy (1989)	265	(2)
Afterword	267	(21)
1. Principal Themes of Power and Interdependence	267	(5)
2. The Research Program of Power and Interdependence: A Critique	272	(9)
Interdependence and Bargaining	273	(2)
Complex Interdependence	275	(3)
International Regime Change	278	(3)
3. Limitations of Structural Theory: Systemic Political Processes	281	(3)
4. Perceptions and Learning	284	(3)
Conclusion	287	(1)
Two Cheers for Multilateralism	288	(13)
The Need for Regimes	290	(2)
Unrealistic Visions	292	(6)
Do Not Try to Recapture the Past	292	(1)
Ask Whether the World Really Needs It	293	(1)
Build on Shared Interests	294	(1)
Use Regimes to Insure against Catastrophe	295	(1)
The Best Enforcement Is Self-Enforcement	295	(1)
Look for the Right Moment	296	(1)
Use Regimes to Focus U.S. Attention on the Future	297	(1)
Regime Maintenance	298	(3)
United Nations Peacekeeping	299	(1)
International Debt	299	(1)
Exchange Rates	299	(2)
Notes	301	(25)
Index	326