This adaptation of a well-known nursery rhyme is not simply autobiographical. More than a few observers have come to recognize that in a rapidly changing, interdependent world the separation of national and international affairs is problematic.1 The rhyme gives voice to a desire for stability, to a longing for certitude as to what organizes and governs the course of events, to a sense that logically boundaries should divide domestic and foreign affairs. But it also acknowledges that such boundaries may continually elude our grasp because the phenomena, problems, and processes of greatest interest are not confined by them. To probe the domestic as aspects of “comparative politics” and examine the foreign as dimensions of “international politics” is more than arbitrary: it is downright erroneous. Domestic and foreign affairs have always formed a seamless web and the need to treat them as such is urgent in this time of enormous transformation.