Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational PowerFor several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U. S. S. R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past several decades has been the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the nation