Table of Contents:
  • Realism, institutionalism, and cooperation
  • Politics, economics, and the international system
  • Hegemony in the world political economy
  • Cooperation and international regimes
  • Rational-choice and functional explanations
  • Functional theory of international regimes
  • Bounded rationality and redefinitions of self-interest
  • Hegemonic cooperation in the postwar era
  • Incomplete decline of hegemonic regimes
  • Consumers' oil regime, 1974-81
  • Value of institutions and the costs of flexibility.