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Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organised Hypocrisy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 264 pp., $16.95 (pbk), ISBN 0 691 00711 X.
Many of us are no doubt bored will the constant barrage of euphemisms surrounding the debate over globalisation. Overly repeated suggestions that the nation-state is drawing its last breath, that national sovereignty is on the wane, or that the Internet and the communications revolution are transforming us into cosmopolitan citizens, ring hollow when met with empirical research. Liberals, of almost every variety, have been triumphant in their self-congratulatory pronouncements of systemic change, claiming that realist politics is diminishing as a tool for the conduct of inter-state relations,...