▪ Abstract Scholars have become acutely interested in how behavior driven by ideas rather
than self-interest determines policy-making outcomes. This review examines the literature …

Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping
“ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern …

The authors analyze the nation-state as a worldwide institution constructed by worldwide
cultural and associational processes, developing four main topics:(1) properties of nation …

The history of international political orders is written in terms of continuity and change in
domestic and international political relations. As a step toward understanding such …

THIS BOOK IS about some of the most important problems confronting social scientists who
study institutions and institutional change. It is also about globalization, particularly the …

Social constructivism in international relations has come into its own during the past decade,
not only as a metatheoretical critique of currently dominant neo-utilitarian approaches (neo …

The paper undertakes an ordinary language analysis of the current meanings of “identity,” a
complicated and unclear concept that nonetheless plays a central role in ongoing debates in …

How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? With The
Struggle for Recognition in International Relations, Michelle Murray offers a new answer to …

" Constructive engagement" became a catchphrase under the Clinton administration for
America's reinvigorated efforts to pull China firmly into the international community as a …

Socialization theory is a neglected source of explanations for cooperation in international
relations. Neorealism treats socialization (or selection, more properly) as a process by which …