This article reviews four recent books on balancing and the balance of power. Both in
isolation and when taken together, they provide strong analytical and empirical warrants …

Liberals claim that globalization has led to fragmentation and decentralized networks of
power relations. This does not explain how states increasingly “weaponize …

The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious
manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline.... Vitalis has also …

Chinese “aid” is a lightning rod for criticism. Policy-makers, journalists, and public
intellectuals claim that Beijing uses its largesse to cement alliances with political leaders …

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 …

What are the different political institutions rebels create to engage captive civilian
populations, and how do they arrive at distinct political arrangements? Rebel-controlled …

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-
Northeast's Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section's Best Book of the Year …

The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century
was the original" great game." But in the past quarter century, a new" great game" has …

After the end of World War II, various iterations of hegemony studies focused on such topics
as the connection between hegemonic powers and the provision of international public …

International relations research has regarded networks as a particular mode of organization,
distinguished from markets or state hierarchies. In contrast, network analysis permits the …