Modern realism claims that the fear that others will enjoy relatively greater benefits
frequently impedes international cooperation. Recent articles in this Review by Duncan …

Recent developments in the study of international institutions have created a need and
opportunity for restating the traditional realist view of the role of institutions in international …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

Games Real Actors Play provides a persuasive argument for the use of basic concepts of
game theory in understanding public policy conflicts. Fritz Scharpf criticizes public choice …

Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops
a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the …

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 …

Since the Cold War ended, Western policymakers have sought to create security
arrangements in Europe, as well as in other regions of the globe, that are based on …

This article reformulates liberal international relations (IR) theory in a nonideological and
nonutopian form appropriate to empirical social science. Liberal IR theory elaborates the …

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 …

Security matters. It is impossible to make sense of world politics without reference to it. Every
day, people somewhere in the world are killed, starved, tortured, raped, impoverished …