International Politics and Institutions in Time

International Politics and Institutions in Time is the definitive exploration, by a group of leading international relations scholars, of the contribution of the historical institutionalism tradition for the study of international politics.
Historical institutionalism is a counterpoint to the rational choice and sociological traditions of analysis in the study of international institutions, bringing particular attention to how timing and sequence of past events, path dependence, and other processes impact distributions of global power, policy choices, and the outcome of international political battles.

This book places places particular emphasis on the sources of stability and change in major international institutions, such as those shaping state sovereignty and global governance, including in the areas of international organization, law, political economy, human rights, environment, and security.

Featuring work by pioneering scholars, the volume is the most comprehensive collection to date on historical institutionalism in IR. It is projected to be of interest to multiple audiences including the international relations community, to historians, especially as that field is experiencing its own 'international' and 'global' turns, as well as sociologists and economists who work on institutions and international affairs.

Orfeo Fioretos, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University, Philadelphia.

Orfeo Fioretos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (with Tulia G. Falleti and Adam Sheingate, OUP, 2016) and author of Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism After 1950 (Cornell University Press, 2011).

I. Introduction
1. Institutions and Time in International Relations, Orfeo Fioretos
II. States and Institutions in Time
2. The Persistence of State Sovereignty, Stephen D. Krasner
3. The Rise, Character, and Evolution of International Orders, G. John Ikenberry
4. Sequencing, Layering, and Feedbacks in Global Regulation, Abraham L. Newman
5. Reactive Sequences in Global Health Governance, Tine Hanrieder and Michael Zurn
6. Dynamics of Institutional Choice, Joseph Jupille, Walter Mattli, and Duncan Snidal
7. Global Institutions without a Global State, Henry Farrell and Martha Finemore
III. Changes and Continuities in International Cooperation
8. International Security: Critical Junctures, Developmental Pathways, and Institutional Change, Etel Solingen and Wilfred Wan
9. The Limits of Institutional Reform in the United States and the Global Trade Regime, Judith Goldstein and Robert Gulotty
10. Incremental Origins of the Bretton Woods, Eric Helleiner
11. Latin America and the Idea of the International Protection of Human Rights, Kathryn Sikkink
12. The Evolution of International Law and Courts, Karen J. Alter
13. Bounded Reform in Global Economic Governance at the IMF and World Bank, Manuela Moschella and Catherine Weaver
14. Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics, Steven Bernstein and Hamish van der Ven
IV. Conclusion
15. Observations on the Promise and Pitfalls of Historical Institutionalism in International Relations, Robert O. Keohane