International Politics and Institutions in Time is the definitive exploration, by a group of leading international relations scholars, of the contribution of th

What is time and how does it influence our knowledge of international politics? For decades International Relations (IR) paid little explicit attention to time.

In this book, Miles Kahler examines both global and regional institutions and their importance in the world economy. Kahler explains the variation in these inst

This book applies the analytical approach called Historical Institutionalism (HI)- so far mostly used within comparative politics-to the field of International

This book moves scholarly debates beyond the old question of whether or not international institutions matter in order to examine how they matter, even in a wor