Abstract The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores
novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the …

Gridlock in the multilateral climate negotiations has created growing scholarly and practical
interest in the use of minilateral forums. A large variety of climate club proposals have been …

In any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others.
Practitioners often refer to this form of diplomatic hierarchy as the'international pecking …

Hierarchy-centered approaches to IR promise to deliver what anarchy-centered approaches
have not: a framework for theorizing and empirically analyzing world politics as a global …

A decade ago in 2007 we published a forum in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
(IRAP) on 'Why there is no non-Western IR theory?'. Now we revisit this project ten years on …

How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American
empire, or is global power shifting to the East with the rise of China? Arguing that existing …

We live today in the first global system of sovereign states in history, encompassing all of the
world's polities, peoples, religions and civilizations. Christian Reus-Smit presents a new …

The slow progress of the international climate negotiations has generated calls for a shift
from large-n multilateralism (inclusive multilateralism) to more streamlined negotiations that …

It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world
experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters …

The modern international order faces profound challenges. Power is shifting to non-Western
states and diffusing to non-state actors, including transnational insurgents. This is more than …