Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0691140286 ISBN 13: 9780691140285

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2009

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Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has more and more given way to a recognition of the importance of nonstate actors, nonmilitary forms of power, interdependence, international institutions, and cooperation. Drawing together a group of leading international relations theorists, this book explores the frontiers of new research on the role of such forces in world politics.


The topics explored in these chapters include the uneven role of peacekeepers in civil wars, the success of human rights treaties in promoting women's rights, the disproportionate power of developing countries in international environmental policy negotiations, and the prospects for Asian regional cooperation. While all of the chapters demonstrate the empirical and theoretical vitality of liberal and institutionalist theories, they also highlight weaknesses that should drive future research and influence the reform of foreign policy and international organizations.


In addition to the editors, the contributors are Vinod Aggarawal, Jonathan Aronson, Elizabeth DeSombre, Page Fortna, Michael Gilligan, Lisa Martin, Timothy McKeown, Ronald Mitchell, Layna Mosley, Beth Simmons, Randall Stone, and Ann Tickner.

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Helen V. Milner is the B. C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Andrew Moravcsik is professor of politics and international affairs, and director of the European Union Program, at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

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"Dedicated to the life's work of Robert O. Keohane, this is a book of exceptional intellectual coherence and vigor. A large number of Keohane's distinguished former students here celebrate his seminal contribution to the field of international relations and international political economy. The chapters explore and exemplify his widely recognized and cited institutionalist framework. The volume is a testimony to the undiluted impact Keohane's scholarship continues to have on legions of students and colleagues."--Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University

"Robert O. Keohane is a giant in the field of international relations, not only because he has produced innovative ideas and approaches, but also because of his teaching and mentoring. This edited volume by former Keohane students and colleagues is a fitting tribute to his oeuvre, pushing his thinking on power, interdependence, and the role of nonstate actors into previously understudied domains and dimensions of institutionalism, with results that the rest of us might not have thought of before but which won't entirely surprise the master himself. Highly recommended for all serious students of international relations."--John Gerard Ruggie, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"This important and timely book pushes the theoretical envelope of neoliberal institutionalism and represents an important step forward in international relations theory. The scholarship is sound, well-documented, and effectively presented, and the ideas are framed and explored in ways that will give them lasting value."--Giulio Gallarotti, Wesleyan University

"Covering a wide range of topics and probing the strengths as well as some weaknesses of neoliberal institutionalism, this book will interest a broad cross-section of international relations scholars."--Edward D. Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables.......................................................................................................................................ixContributors.....................................................................................................................................................xiPreface..........................................................................................................................................................xiiiChapter 1 Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics: Research Frontiers Helen V. Milner....................................................3Chapter 2 Institutions, Power, and Interdependence Randall W. Stone............................................................................................31Chapter 3 The Transaction Costs Approach to International Institutions Michael J. Gilligan.....................................................................50Chapter 4 The Influence of International Institutions: Institutional Design, Compliance, Effectiveness, and Endogeneity Ronald B. Mitchell.....................66Chapter 5 Peacekeepers as Signals: The Demand for International Peacekeeping in Civil Wars V. Page Fortna and Lisa L. Martin...................................87Chapter 6 Women and International Institutions: The Effects of the Women's Convention on Female Education Beth A. Simmons......................................108Chapter 7 Private Governance for the Public Good? Exploring Private Sector Participation in Global Financial Regulation Layna Mosley...........................126Chapter 8 Power, Interdependence, and Domestic Politics in International Environmental Cooperation Elizabeth R. DeSombre.......................................147Chapter 9 The Dynamics of Trade Liberalization Vinod K. Aggarwal...............................................................................................164Chapter 10 International Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World Jonathan D. Aronson.................................................................185Chapter 11 The Big Influence of Big Allies: Transgovernmental Relations as a Tool of Statecraft Timothy J. McKeown.............................................204Chapter 12 On Taking Religious Worldviews Seriously J. Ann Tickner.............................................................................................223Chapter 13 Robert Keohane: Political Theorist Andrew Moravcsik.................................................................................................243Bibliography.....................................................................................................................................................265Index............................................................................................................................................................291

Chapter One

Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics RESEARCH FRONTIERS Helen V. Milner

IN THE MID-1970S a new paradigm emerged in international relations. While many of the ideas in this new paradigm had been discussed previously, Keohane and Nye put these pieces together in a new and fruitful way to erect a competitor to realism and its later formulation, neorealism. First elaborated in Power and Interdependence, this paradigm is now usually referred to as neoliberal institutionalism. In the thirty years since Power and Interdependence, this new paradigm has developed substantially and has become the main alternative to realism for understanding international relations. Keohane's seminal work, After Hegemony, which is a centerstone of the neoliberal paradigm, provided the most compelling theoretical justification for the existence and role of international institutions in world politics. Since then the progress of the neoliberal paradigm can be plainly seen in a number of key works, such as Legalization and World Politics, The Rational Design of International Institutions, and Delegation and Agency in International Organizations. Each of these projects, and many others, takes the key ideas of the neoliberal institutionalist paradigm and pushes them forward into new areas of research. They attest to the continuing theoretical power of the paradigm.

Furthermore, the paradigm has proven highly robust empirically. Globalization, for instance, has made the world ever more tightly connected, as Power and Interdependence foresaw years ago. Among other trends in world politics, including the increasing prominence of nonstate actors such as multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and international institutions, globalization has made the prevailing competing paradigm, neorealism, a less powerful explanation of international relations, and has raised the importance of the neoliberal paradigm. The key ideas articulated by Keohane and Nye in the 1970s are increasingly winning the theoretical and empirical battles in international relations to understand a globalized world.

The four key elements of the neoliberal institutionalist paradigm are emphases on nonstate actors, including international institutions, on forms of power besides military force and threats, on the role of interdependence in addition to anarchy in the international system, and on the importance of cooperation as well as conflict in international politics. These elements contrast starkly with the tenets of realism and neorealism. Keohane originally developed many of these themes in his works, but other scholars have taken many of his ideas and advanced them substantially. This volume is intended to extend our theoretical and empirical understanding of the neoliberal institutionalist paradigm.

This volume assesses the progress that has been made in developing the paradigm and discusses areas where it has encountered new problems. Some of the chapters apply ideas from the paradigm to understand issues that have become increasingly visible, such as women's rights, religion, intellectual property rights, and peacekeeping. Others address anomalies and puzzles that the paradigm has encountered, and suggests ways that it can deal with them. The volume shows the broad range of topics addressed by, and the increasing theoretical depth of, the paradigm. Neoliberal institutionalism is alive and well as a theoretical construct in international relations today.

Neoliberal institutionalism shares a number of features with the paradigm that it contests, neorealism. The approaches in this volume also tend to share these features. Importantly, both neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism argue for a systemic-level theory of international politics. Systemic theorists believe that the international system exercises an important influence upon states; this environment constrains and shapes them powerfully. Because of this, systemic theorists argue that these external forces must be taken into account first in any theoretical explanation of international relations. To fail to do so would lead to the confusing proliferation of domestic variables to explain a systemic outcome. Neorealists see anarchy and the balance of capabilities as the central systemic factors influencing states. Neoliberal institutionalists accept the importance of these factors, but they also think that the effects of anarchy are mitigated by both mutual interdependence and...

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691140286
• ISBN 13: 9780691140285
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 299
• Herausgeber: Milner Helen V., Moravcsik Andrew
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