Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, UCLA

International relations theory

on International Relations Theory


Ancestral and instrumental in the politics of ethnic and religious conflict (with Ayelet Harel-Shalev). Ethnic and Racial Studies 40, 12 (October 2017): 1981-2000.  Reprinted in Affect, Interest, and Political Entrepreneurs in Ethnic and Religious Conflicts.  Edited with Ayelet Harel-Shalev.  London: Routledge, 2018.

Ethnicity, extraterritoriality, and international conflict.  Ethnic and Racial Studies 40, 12 (October 2017): 2020-2038. Reprinted in Affect, Interest, and Political Entrepreneurs in Ethnic and Religious Conflicts.  Edited with Ayelet Harel-Shalev.  London: Routledge, 2018.

The Great Trilemma: Are Globalization, Democracy, and Sovereignty Compatible? International Theory 8, 2 (July 2016): 297–340.

The Attenuation of Revolutionary Foreign Policy (with Chad E. Nelson). International Politics 52, 5 (2015): 626–636. 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ip.2015.29

Realism/Neorealism. In The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., vol. 20, pp. 26-30. Edited by James D. Wright. New York: Elsevier, 2015.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.93119-2

Respites or Resolutions: Recurring Crises and the Origins of War. In The Next Great War? The Roots of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict, pp. 13–23, 221–225. Edited by Richard N. Rosecrance and Steven E. Miller. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262028998.003.0002

Recalcitrance and initiative: US hegemony and regional powers in Asia and Europe after World War II. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 14, 1 (January 2014): 147–177.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/irap/lct020

Power Politics and the Powerless. In Back to Basics: State Power in a Contemporary World, pp. 219–248. Edited by Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970087.003.0011

Sanctions, Inducements, and Market Power: Political Economy of International Influence. In Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation, pp. 29–55. Edited by Etel Solingen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511862380.004

Neoliberal Institutionalism. In The Oxford Handbook on International Relations, pp. 201–221. Edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199219322.003.0011

Separatism's Final Country (with Richard Rosecrance).  Foreign Affairs 87, 4 (July-August 2008): 141-145.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/20032725
Reprinted in International Relations in Perspective: A Reader.  Edited by Henry R. Nau.  Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010.

Incentive compatibility and global governance: existential multilateralism, a weakly confederal world, and hegemony. In Can the World be Governed?  Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism, pp. 17-84.  Edited by Alan S. Alexandroff.  Studies in International Governance.  Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, for The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), 2008.

Constraints and Determinants: Structure, Purpose, and Process in the Analysis of Foreign Policy.  In  Approaches, Levels, and Methods of Analysis in International Politics: Crossing Boundaries, pp. 189-209.  Edited by Harvey Starr.  Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

No More States?: Globalization, National Self-Determination, and Terrorism. Edited by Richard N. Rosecrance and Arthur A. Stein. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

Trade and Conflict: Uncertainty, Strategic Signaling, and Interstate Disputes. In Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate, pp. 111-126. Edited by Edward D. Mansfield and Brian Pollins. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Communications Revolutions and International Relations (with Cherie Steele). In Technology, Development, and Democracy: International Conflict and Cooperation in the Information Age, pp. 25-53. Edited by Juliann Emmons Allison. SUNY Series in Global Politics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Realism/Neorealism. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, vol. 19: 12812-15. New York: Pergamon Press, 2001.

Introduction. In The New Great Power Coalition: Toward a World Concert of Nations, pp. 1-17. Edited by Richard Rosecrance. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

Constrained Sovereignty: The Growth of International Intrusiveness. In The New Great Power Coalition: Toward a World Concert of Nations, pp. 261-281. Edited by Richard Rosecrance. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

The Theory of Overlapping Clubs (with Richard Rosecrance). In The New Great Power Coalition: Toward a World Concert of Nations, pp. 221-234. Edited by Richard Rosecrance. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

Conclusion (with Jennifer Kibbe and Richard Rosecrance). In The New Great Power Coalition: Toward a World Concert of Nations, pp. 367-379. Edited by Richard Rosecrance. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

Counselors, Kings, and International Relations: From Revelation to Reason, and Still No Policy-relevant Theory. In Being Useful: Policy Relevance and International Relations Theory, pp. 50-74. Edited by Miroslav Nincic and Joseph Lepgold. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Introduction: Prospects and Problems in the New Century (with John Mueller). In Peace, Prosperity, and Politics, pp. 1-11. Edited by John Mueller. Series on The Political Economy of Global Interdependence. Boulder: Westview, 2000.

The Justifying State: Why Anarchy Doesn't Mean No Excuses. In Peace, Prosperity, and Politics, pp. 235-255. Edited by John Mueller. Series on The Political Economy of Global Interdependence. Boulder: Westview, 2000.

The Limits of Strategic Choice: Constrained Rationality and Incomplete Explanation. In Strategic Choice and International Relations, pp. 197-228. Edited by David A. Lake and Robert Powell. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Geostructuralism and International Politics: The End of the Cold War and the Regionalization of International Security (with Steven E. Lobell). In Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World, pp. 101-122. Edited by David A. Lake and Patrick M. Morgan. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy. Edited by Richard Rosecrance and Arthur A. Stein. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Beyond Realism: The Study of Grand Strategy (with Richard Rosecrance).  In The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy, pp. 3-21.  Edited by Richard Rosecrance and Arthur A. Stein.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Domestic Constraints, Extended Deterrence, and the Incoherence of Grand Strategy: The U.S., 1938-1950. In The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy, pp. 96-123.  Edited by Richard Rosecrance and Arthur A. Stein.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Governments, Economic Interdependence, and International Cooperation. In Behavior, Society, and International Conflict, vol. 3, pp. 241-324.  Edited by Philip E. Tetlock, Jo L. Husbands, Robert Jervis, Paul C. Stern, and Charles Tilly.  New York: Oxford University Press, for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1993.


Why Nations Cooperate: Circumstance and Choice in International Relations. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Strategy as Politics, Politics as Strategy: Domestic Debates, Statecraft, and Star Wars. In The Logic of Nuclear Terror, pp. 186-210.  Edited by Roman Kolkowicz.  New York: Allen and Unwin, 1987.

The Hegemon's Dilemma: Great Britain, the United States, and the International Economic Order. International Organization 38 (Spring 1984): 355-386.   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818300026758

Reprinted in:
The International Trading System: Globalization and History.  Edited by Kevin O'Rourke.  Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO, edited by Kym Anderson and Bernard Hoekman.  Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004.

Theory and Structure in International Political Economy.  Edited by Charles Lipson and Benjamin J. Cohen.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1999.
 
The Rise of Free Trade. Volume 4: Free Trade Reappraised: The New Secondary Literature.  Edited by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey.  London: Routledge, 1997. 

The International System and the International Political Economy: State Structures and Strategies.  The Library of International Political Economy Series, no.~6.  Edited by Joseph M. Grieco.  London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993.

When Misperception Matters. World Politics 34 (July 1982): 505-526.   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2010332

Coordination and Collaboration: Regimes in an Anarchic World. International Organization 36 (Spring 1982): 299-324. 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818300018968

Reprinted in:
Neorealism şi Neoliberalism: Dezbaterea Contemporană. Edited by David A. Baldwin.  Romanian translation by Mihaela Asavi, Ramona-Elena Lupu, and Mihnea-Adrian Vilceanu.  Iaşi: Institutul European, 2010.

Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate.  Edited by David A. Baldwin.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Key Concepts in International Political Economy.  The Library of International Political Economy Series, no. 5.  Edited by David A. Baldwin. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993.

International Regimes.  Edited by Stephen D. Krasner.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983.

The Politics of Linkage. World Politics 33 (October 1980): 62-81.   DOI: \url{http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2010255}
JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2010255


Evaluating War: Outcomes and Consequences (with Bruce M. Russett). In Handbook of Political Conflict: Theory and Research, pp. 399-422.  Edited by Ted Robert Gurr.  New York: The Free Press, 1980.


The Nation at War. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

 

History, Quantitative Analysis, and the Balance of Power (with Alan Alexandroff and Richard Rosecrance).  Journal of Conflict Resolution 21 (March 1977): 35-56.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/002200277702100103   JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/173682


Conflict and Cohesion: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Conflict Resolution 20 (March 1976): 143-172
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002200277602000106

Power, Balance of Power and Status in Nineteenth Century International Relations (with Richard Rosecrance, Alan Alexandroff, and Brian Healy). Sage Professional Papers in International Studies, no. 29 (1974).
 

Interdependence: Myth or Reality? (with Richard Rosecrance).  World Politics 26 (October 1973): 1-27.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2009915

Reprinted in: 
Theorien der Internationalen Politik: Einfuührung und Texte.  Edited by Ursula Lehmkuhl.  Munchen/ Wien: Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996, 2nd ed. 1997, 3rd ed. 2001.  

Globalism Versus Realism: International Relations' Third Debate.  Edited by Ray Maghroori and Bennett Ramberg.  Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982.

Comparative Modernization.  Edited by Cyril E. Black.  New York: The Free Press, 1976.

The Balance of Power in International History: Theory and Reality (with Brian Healy).  Journal of Conflict Resolution 17 (March 1973): 33-61. 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002200277301700103