Kirton, John J.

International organization/ edited by John J. Kirton. - Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. - xxii, 509 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I Overviews of the Field: International organization: a state of the art on an art of the state, Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard Ruggie; Theories and empirical Studies of international institutions, Lisa L. Martin and Beth A. Simmons; What are international institutions?, John Duffield.

Part II Core Concepts and Competing Theories: Power and Interdependence revisited, Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye Jr; Structural causes and regime consequences: regimes as intervening variables, Stephen D. Krasner; International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order, John Gerard Ruggie; International institutions: 2 approaches, Robert O. Keohane; Concerts, collective security, and the future of Europe, Charles A. Kupchan and Clifford A. Kupchan; The false promise of international institutions, John J. Mearsheimer.

Part III New Directions: Introduction: epistemic communities and international policy coordination, Peter M. Haas; Multilateralism and world order, Robert W. Cox; Is American multilateralism in decline?, G. John Ikenberry; Imagined (security) communities: cognitive regions in international relations, Emanuel Adler; Governance, good governance and global governance: conceptual and actual challenges, Thomas G. Weiss; The emerging roles of NGOs in the UN system: from Article 71 to a people's millennium assembly, Chadwick Alger.

Part IV Compliance, Effectiveness and the Domestic Dimension: Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of 2-level games, Robert D. Putnam; The politics, power, and pathologies of international organization, Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore;

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