Weiss is best known for questioning the converging effect associated with globalisation by pointing to the mediating role played by domestic nation-state institutions and capabilities and arguing that the effect non-state powers have upon a government can be enabling as well as constraining. Furthermore, within this argument, rather than a movement towards a neoliberal model, Weiss sees the emergence of what she calls "governed interdependence". This theory is forwarded in The Myth of the Powerless State (1998) and submitted to empirical testing in States in the Global Economy (2003).
