Review Sovereignty is a powerful and important book, destined to become a standard realist position in the current contexts of globalization and security theory. -- Review Krasner stakes out a rigorous... position.... [A] must... read... [for] those who have the slightest interest in... international relations. -- Virginia Quarterly Review Review Stephen Krasner played a key role in transforming state sovereignty from a neorealist presumption into an object of sustained inquiry. Thus his new book is particularly noteworthy. . . . Keeping different kinds of sovereignty straight is crucial to the study of international relations, whether at the hands of neorealists or constructivists, nonliberal institutionalists, or postmodernists. (Fred H. Lawson The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ) Krasner stakes out a rigorous and important position. This book is one that must be read by those who have the slightest interest in the history of international relations. (Virginia Quarterly Review ) Sovereignty is a powerful and important book, destined to become a standard realist position in the current contexts of globalization and security theory. (Choice )