The essays in this book trace the development of the author's thinking about international institutions between 1980 and 1988. The introduction, written especia

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

A new theoretical framework for understanding how social, economic, and political conflicts influence international institutions and their place in the global o

Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have gro

Phillip Y. Lipscy explains how countries renegotiate international institutions when rising powers such as Japan and China challenge the existing order. This bo