Rethinking World Politics

How has globalization transformed world politics? Philip G. Cerny argues that while supranational governance bodies, global corporations, NGOs, and cross-border interest groups are not replacing nation-states, they are forging new transnational webs of power. States, hthemselves increasingly trapped in these webs. Sweeping in its scope, Rethinking World Politics is a landmark work of international relations theory that offers us new ways to think about the forces shaping the contemporary world.