The concepts of sovereignty and power provide a leitmotif in Krasner's contributions to international relations. The incisive and original insights of sovereignty as “organized hypocrisy” have helped illuminate important dilemmas in world politics. But how states manage dilemmas of sovereignty also hold important implications for power. Power, in turn, influences the repertoire of responses to dilemmas of sovereignty. I explore the reciprocal relationship between sovereignty compromises and power by zooming in and out of three different scenes of contemporary international relations: the ascent of China as a great power, variants of regionalism, and the evolving non-proliferation regime. These three realms are particularly suitable for a volume addressing Krasner's contributions: they offer fruitful arenas for investigating two master variables in Krasner's work; they have attracted considerable attention in the study and praxis of international relations, both of which have been weaved in his own work; and they address various levels of analysis -- domestic structures, rulers, states, entire regions, and international regimes -- relevant to his contributions.1 Scene 1 focuses on a single state, China's shifting sovereignty compromises in tandem with its ascent to power. Scene 2 turns to the regional level to illuminate divergent sovereignty compromises in the Middle East and East Asia, with attendant consequences for aggregate regional power. Scene 3 explores how both vastly compromised sovereignty and power relations influenced the evolution of the international non-proliferation regime
