Actors and institutions in the study of international politics -- Defending the national interest -- US commercial and monetary policy : unravelling the paradox of external strength and internal weakness -- Approaches to the state : alternative conceptions and historical dynamics -- Sovereignty : an institutional perspective -- Structural causes and regime consequences : regimes as intervening variables -- State power and the structure of international trade -- Global communications and national power : life on the Pareto frontier -- Sovereignty and its discontents -- Organized hypocrisy in nineteenth-century East Asia -- Sharing sovereignty : new institutions for collapsed and failing states -- Garbage cans and policy streams : how academic research might affect foreign policy.