Although the network metaphor has become familiar in contemporary international relations, too often network has remained a metaphor rather than an instrument of analysis. This volume introduces two approaches to network analysis and applies them to international politics: networks as structures and networks as actors. In doing so, the authors emphasize the empirical leverage and new understandings generated by more systematic use of network analysis. Their research illuminates important sectors of international relations: international inequality, the emergence of the human rights movement, governance of the Internet, terrorist and criminal networks, and normative change.
