Selected Publications

  • Quantum Mind and Social Science, Cambridge University Press. Buy Here
  • New Systems Theories of World Politics, edited by Mathias Albert, LarsErik Cederman, and Alexander Wendt, Palgrave
  • “Sovereignty and the UFO” (with Raymond Duvall), Political Theory, 36(4), 607-633
  • “Agency, Teleology, and the World State: A Reply to Shannon,” European Journal of International Relations, 11(4), 589-598
  • “Why a World State is Inevitable,” European Journal of International Relations, 9(4), 491-542
  • “The State as Person in International Theory,” Review of International Studies, 30(2), 289-316
  • “Driving with the Rearview Mirror: On the Rational Science of Institutional Design,” International Organization, 55(4), 1019-1049
  •  “On Constitution and Causation in International Relations,” Review of International Studies, 24 (special issue), 101-117
  • Social Theory of International Politics, Cambridge University Press “Best Book of the Decade” Award, the International Studies Association (2006) Buy Here
  • “Hierarchy Under Anarchy: Informal Empire and the East German State” (with Daniel Friedheim), International Organization, 49, 689-721; earlier version in Thomas Biersteker and Cynthia Weber, eds. (1996), State Sovereignty as Social Construct, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 240-277
  •  “Constructing International Politics,” International Security, 19, 71-81
  • “Collective Identity Formation and the International State,” American Political Science Review, 88, 384-396; revised as “Identity and Structural Change in International Politics,” in Yosef Lapid and Friedrich Kratochwil, eds. (1996), The Return of Culture and Identity to International Theory, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 47-66
  • “Dependent State Formation and Third World Militarization” (with Michael Barnett), Review of International Studies, 19, 321-347
  • “Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power 4 Politics,” International Organization, 46(2), 391-425
  • “The Difference that Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent” (with Ian Shapiro), Politics and Society, 20(2), 197-223
  • “The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory,” International Organization, 41(3), 335-370

 

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