This book showcases the best new international relations research on hierarchy and moves the discipline forward in this new direction.

International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of n

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All complex and large-scale societies are organized along

Explains how actors control access to international resources, creating a stratified international system of political equals and unequals.

The hierarchy of states presents Ian Clark's Reform and resistance in the international order, a well-established text on international relations first publishe