This volume brings together leading scholars to analyse the central issues of power, order, and change in world politics.

Introduction. Power, order, and change in world politics G. John Ikenberry; Part I. Varieties of International Order and Strategies of Rule: 1. Unpacking hegemony: the social foundations of hierarchical order Charles A. Kupchan; 2. Dominance and subordination in world politics: authority, liberalism, and stability in the modern international order David A. Lake; 3. The logic of order: Westphalia, liberalism, and the evolution of international order in the modern era G. John Ikenberry; Part II. Power Transition and the Rise and Decline of International Order: 4. Hegemonic decline and hegemonic war revisited William C. Wohlforth; 5. Gilpin approaches War and Change: a classical realist in structural drag Jonathan Kirshner; 6. Order and change in world politics: the financial crisis and the breakdown of the US-China grand bargain Michael Mastanduno; Part III. Systems Change and Global Order: 7. Hegemony, nuclear weapons, and liberal hegemony Daniel Deudney; 8. Brilliant but now wrong: a sociological and historical sociological assessment of Gilpin's War and Change in World Politics Barry Buzan; 9. Nations, states, and empires John A. Hall.