The signature feature of twenty-first-century international cooperation is arguably not the
regime but the regime complex. A regime complex is an array of partially overlapping and …

Lack of progress in global climate negotiations has led scholars to reconsider polycentric
approaches to climate policy. Several examples of subglobal mechanisms to reduce …

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

The water-energy-food nexus has become a popular concept in environmental change
research and policy debates. Proponents suggest that a nexus approach promotes policy …

On February 16, 2016, a US court ordered Apple to circumvent the security features of an
iPhone 5C used by one of the terrorists who committed the San Bernardino shootings. Apple …

Abstract “Contested multilateralism” describes the situation that results from the pursuit of
strategies by states, multilateral organizations, and non-state actors to use multilateral …

It is increasingly clear that the world of climate politics is no longer confined to the activities
of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the …

Private organizations play a growing role in governing global issues alongside traditional
public actors such as states, international organizations, and subnational governments …

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental
politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of …

This article summarizes the Correlates of War Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO)
Version 3.0 datasets. The new datasets include information about the population of IGOs in …