Has Realism Become Cost-Benefit Analysis? A Review Essay

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.