Edited by Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein, Back to Basics asks scholars to reflect on the role power plays in contemporary politics and how a power politics approach is influential today. Back to Basics maintains that state power is central to IR; however, each equally eminent contributing author proposes differing visions of the role of power in relation to interests and states... The book is significant for both policy and theory, and is sure to be required reading for international studies?