Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

Has Realism Become Cost-Benefit Analysis? A Review Essay

| Fall 2001

Abstract

Richard Rosecrance of the University of California, Los Angeles, reviews Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions by Lloyd Gruber. Rosecrance applauds Gruber for offering new insights into why states join international and supranational institutions even when balance-of-power considerations would suggest they do otherwise. Rosecrance disagrees, however, with Gruber's explanations for the decline of balancing and the growing strength and number of institutions.

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For Academic Citation: Rosecrance, Richard. “Has Realism Become Cost-Benefit Analysis? A Review Essay.” Quarterly Journal: International Security, vol. 26. no. 2. (Fall 2001):
132-154
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