Background Note‪?‬

Abstract: International politics has fragmented, involving more diverse actors in myriad new sites. A new politics of ethnicity and nationalism is altering the conditions of both coexistence and cooperation. Interpreting these changes has become a matter of deep ideological and political contestation among intellectuals concerned with international law, organization, and security. The post-Cold War transformations of international affairs are hard to interpret. Foreign policy professionals $$ Illegible Word $$ when they sharply differentiate national culture and global governance or global economics and global politics.