The Rise of the Virtual State Wealth and Power in the Coming Century

A leading scholar of international relations tells why the rise of virtual economies will make military conquest obsolete.

* Preface Part One: The Theory * 1. A New Kind of Nation * 2. The Shift from Stocks to Flows * 3. How States Become Virtual * 4. The Conflict-As-Usual Thesis Part Two: Political and International Implications * 5. Domestic Implications: The Market and the State * 6. Governance and the World Economy Part Three: States in the Virtual Age * 7. The Virtual States: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan * 8. Japan * 9. The United States * 10. Europe and Russia * 11. China and Emerging Nations Part Four: The New System of International Politics and Economics * 12. The Increasing Intangibility of Value in the World Economy * 13. The State and the World * Appendix * International Theory: A New Paradigm? * Notes * Index