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

This book examines momentous changes over the last century which have advanced women's status around the globe.

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