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

James Rosenau explores the enormous changes in both national and international political systems which are currently transforming world affairs.

James N. Rosenau (Author)

9780521582834, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 June 1997

492 pages, 1 b/w illus.
23.6 x 15.7 x 3.5 cm, 0.905 kg

' … a valuable addition to a growing literature on the changing nature of global politics.' Political Studies

In this book James Rosenau explores the enormous changes which 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 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.

Part I. Intellectual Contexts: 1. Frontiers
2. Change
3. Worldviews
Part II. Global Contexts: 4. Turbulence
5. Globalization
6. Fragmegration
7. Boundaries
8. Governance
9. Norms
10. Environments
Part III. Societal Contexts: 11. Sovereignty
12. Constitutions
13. Elections
Part IV. Actors: 14. Individuals
15. Publics
16. Leaders
17. Organizations
18. States
19. Militaries
20. The United Nations
Part V. Conclusions: 21. Democracy
22. War and peace
23. Exploring governance in a turbulent world.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]