Introduction and overview -- Internationalization and political coalitions -- Coalitions, strategic interaction, and regional outcomes -- Mapping internationalization : domestic and regional impacts -- Pax asiatica versus bella levantina : the foundations of war and peace in East Asia and the...

We review and analyze some recent research on regionalism. We begin by discussing how various studies have defined regions and regionalism. Because much of the work has been conducted by economists, we then turn to a summary of the economics of regionalism. However, it is widely held that...

The concepts of sovereignty and power provide a leitmotif in Krasner's contributions to international relations. The incisive and original insights of sovereignty as “organized hypocrisy” have helped illuminate important dilemmas in world politics. But how states manage dilemmas of...

The North Korean nuclear debacle has renewed academic debates over the predictive accuracy of theories of nuclear proliferation. A recent piece found most of those theories deficient for predicting that case.Are the same mechanisms explaining past choices for nuclear proliferation or nuclear...

Since the advent of the nuclear age, scholars have sought to provide rationales behind decisions to pursue, forgo, or relinquish nuclear weapons programs. Security, status, cost, technical capabilities, and domestic considerations have played central roles in explaining those choices. Classical...