Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the complexities of a world undergoing rapid change.

作者：（美国）约书亚·瑞夫纳 （Joshua Rovner） 美国南方卫理公会大学政治学副教授，兼任约翰·古德温·托尔政治学研究中心主任，专注国际政治、国家安全等方面的研究。曾任美国海军战争学院战略与政策学副教授，还曾任教于哥伦比亚大学和威廉姆斯学院。

Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese define security policy, making it inseparable from the quest for social stability through economic growth. While much of the literature on contemporary Japan has resisted emphasis on cultural uniqueness, Peter J. Katzenstein seeks to explain particular aspects of J...(展开全部)

彼得·J.卡赞斯坦（Peter J.Katzenstein），美国康奈尔大学政府系国际研究教授，曾担任著名的国际关系杂志《国际组织》主编。发表有《世界高层中的小国家》、《国家安全文化：世界政治中的文化与认同》等大量极富震撼力的作品，以在国际关系理论、比较政治学、地区研究等方面，特别是因为创了国家安全研究中的文化视角而蜚声国际关系理论界，与新现实主义的代表人物斯蒂芬·克莱斯勒（Stephen Krasnet）和新自由主义的代表人物罗伯特·基欧汉（Robert Keohane）并称为“三K”。

Running the World is an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the "most powerful committee in the history of the world"-the men and women closest to the president of the United States who make America's decisions affecting war and peace, who are the architects of everything from covert operations to market bailouts to combating terrorism. This is the National Security Council...(展开全部)

戴维•罗特科普夫，卡内基国际和平基金会访问学者，加滕•罗特科普夫国际咨询公司（总部驻华盛顿特区与纽约）总裁。他以评论员的身份出现在各大广播节目、有线电视节目及无线电台节目中，为全球许多份重要报刊撰写了100多篇有关国际安全和国际经济的社论。他曾担任信桥公司的主席兼执行总裁及基辛格联合咨询公司的总经理，并在克林顿政府时期出任负责国际贸易的商务部副部长帮办。

The Radiance of France asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological ...(展开全部)

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong’s communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the dustbin of history. In Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame, Grace C. Huang reconsiders...(展开全部)

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong’s communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the dustbin of history. In Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame, Grace C. Huang reconsiders...(展开全部)