Books and monographs
New book
The Nation-State in Transformation: Economic Globalisation, Institutional Mediation and Political Values – Edited and introduced by Michael Böss. Aarhus University Press.
This book is about the significance of the state in a globalised economy. It analyses how small states adapt to the international market, and thus continues the tradition initiated by Peter J. Katzenstein. By focussing on the experiences of Denmark and Ireland, it demonstrates how, around the turn of the century, two small economies adapted successfully to economic globalisation by drawing on each their own neo-corporatist strategies and institutional cultures. The book argues that the nation-state is transformed by economic globalisation, and that the institutional mediation of globalisation helps us explain why some states seem to possess more capacity to adjust than others. This makes it an infinitely more complex task to understand how ‘varieties of capitalism’ develop. For not only must we bring the ‘state-back-in’ and consider various strategies of growth and – in the light of the present economic setback – recovery, we must also consider how history, culture and collective identities influence the performance of the nation-state in the new world order.
Contributions from Francis Fukuyama, David Marsh, John A. Hall, Hohn L. Campbell, Georg Sørensen, Brian Girvin, Rory O’Donnell, Joseph Ruane, Chris McInerney, Bjørn Hvinden, Lars Bo Kaspersen and Linda Thorsager, Gunnar H. and Gert T. Svendsen, Henrik Bang and Michanel Bös
East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Editor, with Kent E. Calder.
Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2007). Editor.
Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Editor. Published earlier as La Brechaentre America Latina y Estados Unidos: Determinantes politicos y institucionales del desarrollo economico (Buenos Aires: Fundacion Grupo Mayan, 2006).
Beyond Bioethics: A Proposal for Modernizing the Regulation of Human Biotechnologies (Washington, DC: School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Co-authored with Franco Furger.
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Editor. Author of Introduction, “Nation-building and the Failure of Institutional Memory,” and Conclusion, “Guidelines for Future Nation-Builders.”
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004).
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002).
Information and Biological Revolutions: Global Governance Challenges — Summary of a Study Group. Editor, with Caroline S. Wagner (Rand MR-1139-DARPA, 1999).
The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (New York: Free Press, 1999).
The End of Order (London: The Social Market Foundation, 1997).
The Virtual Corporation and Army Organization (with Abram N. Shulsky), Santa Monica: RAND Corporation MR-863-A, 1997.
Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (New York: Free Press, 1995).
The US-Japan Security Relationship After the Cold War (with Kongdan Oh), Santa Monica: RAND Corporation MR-283-USDP, 1993 (also published in a Japanese edition by Tokuma Shoten, 1994).
The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992).
Gorbachev and the New Soviet Agenda in the Third World , Santa Monica: RAND Corporation R-3634-A, February 1989.
Soviet Civil-Military Relations and the Power Projection Mission , Santa Monica: RAND Corporation R-3504-AF, April 1987.
The Soviet Union and the Third World: The Last Three Decades. Editor, with Andrzej Korbonski (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987). Author of Chap. 2, “Soviet Strategy in the Third World.”
Moscow's Post-Brezhnev Reassessment of the Third World , RAND Corporation R-3337-USDP, February 1986.
