Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World

488 Pages·1997·12.71 MB·English

by  James N. Rosenau

In this book James N. Rosenau explores the enormous changes which
are transforming world affairs. He argues that the dynamics of eco-
nomic globalization, new technologies, and evolving global norms are
clashing with equally powerful localizing dynamics. The resulting
encounters between diverse interests and actors are rendering the
boundaries between 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. The author contends
that it is along the Frontier, and not in the international arena, that
issues are contested and the course of events configured. The book
examines a number of contexts and agents through which local,
national, and international affairs are woven together. Rosenau's
recurring theme is the challenge of achieving governance along the
turbulent domestic-foreign Frontier.

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Editorial Board
Steve Smith (Managing editor)
Christopher Brown Robert W. Cox Alex Danchev
Rosemary Foot Joseph Grieco Fred Halliday
Margot Light Andrew Linklater Michael Nicholson
Caroline Thomas R. B. J. Walker
International Political Economy
Roger Tooze Craig N. Murphy
Cambridge Studies in International Relations is a joint initiative of
Cambridge University Press and the British International Studies
Association (BISA). The series will include a wide range of material,
from undergraduate textbooks and surveys to research-based
monographs and collaborative volumes. The aim of the series is to
publish the best new scholarship in International Studies from
Europe, North America, and the rest of the world.
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
53 James N. Rosenau
Along the domestic-foreign Frontier
Exploring governance in a turbulent world
52 John M. Hobson
The wealth of states
A comparative sociology of international economic and political
change
51 KaleviJ.Holsti
The state, war, and the state of war
50 Christopher Clapham
Africa and the international system
The politics of state survival
49 Susan Strange
The retreat of the state
The diffusion of power in the world economy
48 William I. Robinson
Promoting polyarchy
Globalization, US intervention, and hegemony
47 Roger Spegele
Political realism in international theory
46 Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber (eds.)
State sovereignty as social construct
45 Mervyn Frost
Ethics in international relations
A constitutive theory
44 Mark W. Zacher with Brent A. Sutton
Governing global networks
International regimes for transportation and communications
43 Mark Neufeld
The restructuring of international relations theory
Series list continues after index
Along the domestic-foreign
Frontier
Exploring governance in
a turbulent world
James N. Rosenau
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First published 1997
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Rosenau, James N.
Along the domestic-foreign Frontier: exploring governance in a
turbulent world / James N. Rosenau.
p. cm. - (Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 53)
ISBN 0 521 58283 0 (hb) - ISBN 0 521 58764 6 (pb)
1. International relations - Political aspects. 2. Political
science. 3. World politics. I. Title. II. Series.
JX1395.R5698 1997
327.1'09'045 - dc20 96-35842 CIP
ISBN 978-0-521-58283-4 hardback
ISBN 978-0-521-58764-8 paperback
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Contents
List of figures and tables page xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Part I Intellectual contexts 1
1 Frontiers 3
2 Change 12
3 Worldviews 25
Part II Global contexts 53
4 Turbulence 55
5 Globalization 78
6 Fragmegration 99
7 Boundaries 118
8 Governance 144
9 Norms 174
10 Environments 189
Part III Societal contexts 215
11 Sovereignty 217
12 Constitutions 237
13 Elections 254
Part IV Actors 273
14 Individuals 275
15 Publics 299
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