1 table Shopping Cart Reviews Table of Contents Etel Solingen provides a comprehensive explanation of foreign policy based on how states throughout the world have confronted the rapid emergence of a global economy and international institutions. The author discusses in rich detail the Middle East, Latin America's Southern Cone, and the Korean peninsula, and builds on examples drawn from almost every other region of the world. At home, coalitions struggle to define the internal allocation and management of resources, and to undermine their rivals. Throughout their regional neighborhoods, coalitions opposing internationalization often compete for dominance, sometimes militarily.
Coalitions favoring internationalization, instead, often cooperate.
Etel Solingen is Professor of Politics and Society at the University of California, Irvine. A new explanation for regional conflict and cooperation. . . .