Logic of international relations

Readers familiar with earlier editions of The Logic of International Relations will find that the principal variation in this new edition is in the expansion and redesign of Part III, previously entitled "The Logic of International Trade and Exchange," now "The Logic of the International Political Economy." It commences with a wholly new chapter on "The International Political Economy," a chapter that presents the argument that politics and economics are inseparable in a full un derstanding of international relations. As this book has always argued that in ternational relations cannot be effectively understood from a single national perspec tive, now it has advanced beyond earlier editions the companion argument regarding politics and economics. With the redesign of the section and the introduction of the new chapter, the chapter "International Trade" has been updated and the chapter previously entitled "International Monetary Exchange" has been recast entirely. These chapters together study the decline of the United States as a dominant economic power, trace the global effects of the rise and fall of OPEC, and con centrate on the maturation of Japanese and Western European economic growth.

Other chapters of the book are revised with newest official expressions of national perspective, factual detail, and occasional new theoretical nuances. Many of these are built upon the swing to conservatism in the United States, since that political change has had profound consequences for U.S. relations in Europe, Asia and the Third World. So, too, has it made its imprint on some of the major American departures from tradition at the end of the Second World War, such as participation in the International Court of Justice from which Washington has withdrawn its declaration of acceptance of compulsory jurisdiction over the Court's handling of a Nicaraguan suit against the United States. In virtually every chapter, accordingly, the rightward shift of American politics relative to both its adversaries and its allies has necessitated substantial revision.