Product Description: Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These agreements foster economic integration among member states by enhancing their access to one another's markets...read more

Product Description: W. W. Norton & Company and the American Political Science Association are pleased to announce the publication of the Centennial Edition of Political Science: State of the Discipline.Editors Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner of Columbia University sought to "reflect the vibrant, often contested, diversity of political science while chronicling the past decade’s scholarship and prompting thought about future directions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents a theory of domestic politics, showing how it affects international outcomes. In developing this rational choice theory, the text argues that any explanation that treats states as unitary actors is misleading. It describes all states as polyarchic, where decision-making power is shared between two or more actors (such as legislature and executive)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the ongoing process of economic integration in Europe, the formation of Mercosur, and the possibility of a new Asia-Pacific economic bloc have led to intense debates about the current status and future direction of regionalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Much recent economic analysis has been devoted to exploring the effects of internationalization on macroeconomic policy options, national competitiveness, and rewards to various factors of production. The central proposition of this volume is that we can no longer understand politics within countries without comprehending the nature of the linkages between national economies and the world economy, and changes in such linkages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The relationship between East-West trade and the Atlantic Alliance has generated lively debate among scholars and policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic for four decades. These debates, however, are often rather parochial, with Europeans talking to Europeans, Americans to Americans, economists to economists, and so on...read more

Product Description: Questions of national security are linked to both political and economic considerations, and there are a few areas in which recent breakthroughs in political economy have been as fruitful as they have been in national security studies...read more

Product Description: Why have governments not erected as many trade barriers in the troubled 1970s and 1980s as they did in the 1920s and 1930s? Professor Milner of Columbia argues that the increased internationalization of business has made many firms in many sectors of industry opponents of protectionism, and that this makes a difference to governments...read more