This Working Paper is a chapter forthcoming in Piki Ish-Shalom, Markus Kornprobst, and Vincent Pouliot, eds, Perspectives on Cognitive Evolution and World Ordering: Opening New Vistas, discussing Emanuel Adler's opus magnum on World Ordering. It uses Adler's analysis of power to unpack his...

What we want to know: the substance of international relations -- Ten fundamental questions -- Tools for thinking: a few basic concepts -- Power and the nation-state -- The limits of power: symbol and reality -- Groups and interests -- The power of elites -- All-purpose interest groups -- How a...