Yale Ferguson is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark. He is the co-author with Richard W. Mansbach of The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System (1976), The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (1988), The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of International Relations Theory (1989), Politics: Authority, Identities, and Change (1996) and The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (2003). Richard Mansbach is Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University. He is the co-author and editor of many books including, with Yale H. Ferguson, The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System (1976), The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (1988), The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of International Relations Theory (1989), Politics: Authority, Identities, and Change (1996) and The Elusive Quest Continues: Theory and Global Politics (2003).

"Of course to either remap global politics or explain the forces that shape change is a formidable task. It is thus impressive that they have managed to argue their case as successfully as they have, especially in such a lively and often delightfully irreverent way." - Janice Bially Mattern, Lehigh University

• Preface; 1. Post-international politics; 2. Theory and method; 3. Political space and time; 4. States and other politics; 5. Identities in a post-international world; 6. A post-international world economy; 7. War in a post-international world; 8. Technology and change; 9. The future.