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Social movements are increasingly recognised as significant features of contemporary world politics, yet to date their treatment in international relations theory has tended to obfuscate the considerable diversity of these social formations, and the variegated interactions they may establish with state actors and different structures of world order. Highlighting the difficulties conventional liberal and critical approaches have in transcending conceptions of movements as moral entities, the article draws from two underexploited literatures in the study of social movements in international relations, the English School and social systems theory, to specify a wider range of analytical interactions between different categories of social movements and of world political structures. Moreover, by casting social movement phenomena as communications, the article opens international relations to consideration of the increasingly diverse trajectories and second order effects produced by social movements as they interact with states, intergovernmental institutions, and transnational actors.

International non-governmental organisations and transnational activism are a prominent feature of contemporary world politics. This book sheds historical light on these phenomena by providing an in-depth study of the campaign for disarmament that took place between the two World Wars.

This article focuses on the effort to prepare Florida state government for the challenge of managing its information technology resources. The State of Florida recently made a multiyear commitment to establish a new statewide information technology resource policy and planning process. Successful implementation has demanded a sensitivity to the practices of public sector management, an understanding of technology, and an appreciation for the dynamics of organizational change. Achieving the goal of managing information and technology, a tremendous undertaking in the best of environments, has required significant investments in developing top management awareness, new strategic planning processes, special budget review processes, new organizational arrangements, and enhanced human resource skills. Once complete, the new policy and planning infrastructure will allow Florida to strategically shape the future direction of its investment in information technology resources and will allow state government to step up to the challenge of managing technological change.

Previous research on the determinants of police expenditures has not risen to the level of empirical understanding in large part because it has failed to explain substantively important variation among local jurisdictions. This suggests a need to reevaluate research strategies and to examine closely those cases which cannot be predicted using traditional, social, economic, and environmental approaches. Incorporating deviant case analysis, the authors outline an alternative approach to determine whether policy maker variables should be added to more broadly based models.