Advanced Seminar in International Relations

International Organizations course pack, compiled assigned readings.

Optional introductory reading: John Duffield, “What Are International Institutions?” International Studies Review 9, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 1-22

Optional introductory reading: Lisa Martin and Beth Simmons, “International Organizations and Institutions,” in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, eds., Handbook of International Relations 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2012), 326-351

Optional introductory reading: Ian Hurd, “Choices and Methods in the Study of International Organizations,” Journal of International Organization Studies 2, no 2 (2011): 7-22

Optional introductory reading: J. Samuel Barkin, “Efficiency and Ideas,” in International Organization: Theories and Institutions (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 39-51.

Optional except for presentation week: Robert O. Keohane, “The Demand for International Regimes,” International Organization 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 325-355

Required: Lloyd Gruber, “Institutions, Collective Action, and the Prospect of Mutual Gain,” in Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 16-32.

Required: Celeste A. Wallander, “Institutional Assets and Adaptability: NATO After the Cold War,” International Organization 54, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 705-735

Required: Daniel Nielson and Michael J. Tierney, “Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform,” International Organization 57, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 241-276.

Optional except for presentation week: Kenneth W. Abbott, Philipp Genschel, Duncan Snidal, and Bernhard Zangl, “Two Logics of Indirect Governance: Delegation and Orchestration,” British Journal of Political Science 46, no. 4 (October 2016): 719-729

Required: Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore, “The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations,” International Organization 53, no. 4 (Autumn 1999): 699-732

Required: Alastair Iain Johnston, “Treating International Institutions as Social Environments,” International Studies Quarterly 45, no. 4 (December 2001): 487-515

Required: Séverine Autesserre, “Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention,” International Organization 63, no. 2 (April 2009): 249-280

Optional except for presentation week: Vincent Pouliot, “Hierarchy in Practice: Multilateral Diplomacy and the Governance of International Security,” European Journal of International Security 1, no. 1 (February 2016): 5-26

Required: Julie L. Mueller, “The IMF, Neoliberalism, and Hegemony,” Global Society 25, no. 3 (July 2011): 377-402

Required: Jennifer Thomson, “The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Institutionalism: A Research Agenda,” International Studies Review, advance article, June 21, 2018

Required: Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson, “The Globally Governed – Everyday Global Governance,” Global Governance 24, 2 (April-June 2018): 193-210.

Required: Himadeep Muppidi, “Colonial and Post-Colonial Global Governance,” in Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds. Power in Global Governance (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 273-293.

Optional except for presentation week: Stephen D. Krasner, “Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables,” International Organization 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 185-205

Required: Stephan Haggard and Beth A. Simmons, “Theories of International Regimes,” International Organization 41, no. 3 (Summer 1987): 491-517

Required: Robert O. Keohane and David G. Victor, “The Regime Complex for Climate Change,” Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 1 (March 2011): 7-23

Required: Kenneth W. Abbott, “The Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change,” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30, no. 4 (August 2012): 571-590

Required: Amandine Orsini, Jean-Frédéric Morin, and Oran Young, “Regime Complexes: A Buzz, a Boom, or a Boost for Global Governance?” Global Governance 19, no. 1 (January-March 2013): 27-39

Optional except for presentation week: Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, “Power in International Politics,” International Organization 59, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 39-75

Required: Lisa L. Martin, “Interests, Power, and Multilateralism,” International Organization 46, no. 4 (Autumn 1992): 765-792

Required: Lloyd Gruber, “Power Politics and the Free Trade Bandwagon,” Comparative Political Studies 34, no. 7 (September 2001): 703-741

Required: Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Vincent Pouliot, “Power in Practice: Negotiating the International Intervention in Libya,” European Journal of International Relations 20, no, 4 (December 2014): 889-911

Required: Ian Hurd, “Legitimacy, Power, and the Symbolic Life of the UN Security Council,” Global Governance 8, no. 1 (January-March 2002): 35-51

Required: Erik Voeten, “The Political Origins of the UN Security Council’s Ability to Legitimize the Use of Force,” International Organization 59, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 527-557

Required: Alexander Thompson, “Coercion Through IOs: The Security Council and the Logic of Information Transmission,” International Organization 60, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 1-34

Required: Lise Morjé Howard and Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal, “The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping,” International Organization 72, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 71-103

Optional except for presentation week: John Gerard Ruggie, “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order,” International Organization 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 379-415

Required: Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, “Expertise and Power at the International Monetary Fund,” in Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), 45-72.

Required: Eric Helleiner, “A Bretton Woods Moment? The 2007-2008 Crisis and the Future of Global Finance,” International Affairs 86, no. 3 (2010): 619-636

Required: Daniel W. Drezner, “The System Worked: Global Economic Governance During the Great Recession,” World Politics 66, no. 1 (January 2014): 123-164

Required: Andrew Moravcsik, “European Integration in Retrospect,” in The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998), pp. 492-501.

Required: Sebastian Rosato, “Introduction,” in Europe United: Power Politics and the Making of the European Union (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), 1-19.

Required: Frank Schimmelfennig, “The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Enlargement of the EU,” International Organization 55, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 47-80

Optional except for presentation week: Mads Dagnis Jensen and Holly Snaith, “When Politics Prevails: The Political Economy of a Brexit,” Journal of European Public Policy 23, no. 9 (2016): 1302-1310

Optional except for presentation week: Kathleen R. McNamara, “Imagining Europe: The Cultural Foundations of EU Governance,” Journal of Common Market Studies 53, no. S1 (September 2015): 22-39

Required: Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, “Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics,” International Social Science Journal 51, no. 159 (March 1999): 89-101

Optional except for presentation week: Thomas Risse and Kathryn Sikkink “The Socialization of International Human Rights Norms Into Domestic Practices: Introduction,” in Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink, eds., The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 1-38.

Required: Alexander Cooley and James Ron, “The NGO Scramble: Organizational Insecurity and the Political Economy of Transnational Action,” International Security 27, no. 1 (Summer 2002): 5-39

Required: Sarah S. Stroup and Wendy H. Wong, “The Authority Trap,” in The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017), 1-23

Required: Jonas Tallberg, “Paths to Compliance: Enforcement, Management, and the European Union,” International Organization 56, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 609-643

Required: Julia C. Morse and Robert O. Keohane, “Contested Multilateralism,” Review of International Organizations 9, no. 4 (2014): 385-412

Required: Phillip Y. Lipscy, “Explaining Institutional Change: Policy Areas, Outside Options, and the Bretton Woods Institutions,” American Journal of Political Science 59, no. 2 (April 2015): 341-356

Required: Zoltán A. Búzás, “Evading International Law: How Agents Comply with the Letter of the Law but Violate Its Purpose,” European Journal of International Relations 23, no. 4 (December 2017): 857-883

Required: Gráinne de Búrca, Robert O. Keohane, and Charles Sabel, “Global Experimentalist Governance,” British Journal of Political Science 44, no. 3 (July 2014): 477-486

Required: John Gerard Ruggie, “Global Governance and ‘New Governance Theory’: Lessons from Business and Human Rights,” Global Governance 20, no. 1 (January-March 2014): 5-17

Required: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “The New Interdependence Approach: Theoretical Development and Empirical Demonstration,” Review of International Political Economy 23, no. 5 (2016): 715-736

Required: Miles Kahler, “Complex Governance and the New Interdependence Approach (NIA),” Review of International Political Economy 23, no. 5 (2016): 825-839

Optional except for presentation week: Kenneth W. Abbott, Jessica F. Green, and Robert O. Keohane, “Organizational Ecology and Institutional Change in Global Governance,” International Organization 70, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 247-277

Required: Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, “The Nature and Sources of Liberal International Order” Review of International Studies 25, no. 2 (April 1999): 179-196

Required: Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, “The Power of Liberal International Organizations,” in Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds., Power in Global Governance (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 161-184.

Required: G. John Ikenberry, “The End of Liberal International Order?” International Affairs 94, no. 1 (January 2018): 7-23

Required: Jeff D. Colgan and Robert O. Keohane, “The Liberal Order is Rigged,” Foreign Affairs 96, no. 3 (May/June 2017): 36-44

Required: Graham Allison, “The Myth of the Liberal Order,” Foreign Affairs 97, no. 4 (July/August 2018): 124-133

Required: Rebecca Friedman Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper, “The Liberal International Order is More than a Myth,” Foreignaffairs.com, July 31, 2018