Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 53) - Softcover

Rosenau, James N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521587646 ISBN 13: 9780521587648

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description

In this book James Rosenau explores the enormous changes which are currently transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of economic globalization, shared norms and new technology are rendering the boundaries between domestic and foreign affairs ever more porous. He examines the diverse interests and actors which attempt to exercise control over one another on the frontier between domestic and foreign affairs, and concludes that it is through these encounters, and not the nation-state, that the substance of world politics is conducted.

Review

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521587646
• ISBN 13: 9780521587648
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 488