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Publications

Books

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2010. Who Governs the Globe? Edited volume with Deborah Avant and Susan Sell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

2004. Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics. With Michael Barnett. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

2003. The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

1996. National Interests in International Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

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2009. "Ontology and Methodology in the American School of IPE" (with Henry Farrell), Review of International Political Economy 61, 1: 58-71.

2009. "Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity," World Politics 61, 1: 58-85.

2005. "Fights about Rules: the role of efficacy and power in changing multilateralism," Review of International Studies 31: 187-206.

2001. "Exporting the English School,” Review of International Studies 27, 3: 509-13.

2001. "Alternatives to ‘Legalization’: Richer Views of Law and Politics" (with Stephen J. Toope), International Organization 55: 743-58.

2001. "Taking Stock: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations and Comparative Politics" (with Kathryn Sikkink), Annual Review of Political Science 4: 391-416.

2000. "Are Legal Norms Distinctive?" Journal of International Law and Politics 32: 699-705.

1999. "The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations" (with Michael Barnett), International Organization 53: 699-732.

1998. "International Norm Dynamics and Political Change" (with Kathryn Sikkink), International Organization 52: 887-917.

1996. "Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology's Institutionalism," International Organization 50: 325-47.

1993. "International Organizations as Teachers of Norms: UNESCO and Science Policy," International Organization 47: 565-98.

Chapters in Edited Volumes


2008. "Paradoxes in Humanitarian Intervention" in Richard Price (ed.), Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 197-224.

2007. "Political Approaches [to the United Nations]" (with Michael Barnett) in Thomas Weiss and Sam Daws (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the United Nations. New York: Oxford University Press, 41-57.

2007. "The Politics of Global Partnership" in Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith, and Hildy Teegen (eds.), NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 103-12.

2006. "New Directions, New Collaborations for International Law and International Relations" in Thomas Biersteker et al. (eds.), International Law and International Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge, 266-77.

2005. "The Power of Liberal International Organizations" (with Michael Barnett) in Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall (eds.), Power and Global Governance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 161-84.

1999. "Rules of War and Wars of Rules: the International Red Cross and the Restraint of State Violence" in John Boli and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 149-65.

1998. "Military Intervention and the Organization of International Politics" in Joseph Lepgold and Thomas G. Weiss (eds.), Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 181-204.

1998. "Redefining Development at the World Bank" in Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard (eds.), International Development and the Social Sciences. Berkeley: University of California Press, 203-227.

1996. "Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention" in Peter J. Katzenstein (ed.), The Culture of National Security: Norms, Identity, and World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 153-85.