Explores emerging issues in world politics in the 21st century By succinctly integrating power transition theory and national policy, this outstanding team of scholars explores key issues in current world politics, including proliferation and deterrence, the international political economy, regional hierarchies, and the role of alliances. Blending quantitative and traditional analyses, theory and practice, history and informed predictions, Power Transitions draws a map of the new world that will stimulate, provoke, and offer solutions.Authors include: Mark Abdollohian, Carole Alsharabati, Brian Efird, Jacek Kugler, Douglas Lemke, Allan C. Stam III, Ronald L. Tammen, and A.F.K Organski. ‘This is a book that will be a must-read for all students of international relations and that should be read by a broad segment of the foreign policy decision-making community. It is an important gathering together and expansion of fifty years of theoretical and empirical insight’. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution, Stanford University