Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. By Daniel H. Deudney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 391p. $35.00.

Among books on international relations theory, this is one of the most important works to be published in recent years. Daniel Deudney synthesizes traditional IR theory with the logic of republican politics, producing a book that is as creative and original as it is erudite and sophisticated.