Global Governance and International Organizations
PhD Comprehensive Exam Reading List
The following readings are in addition to those required by the core concentration courses.
Abbot, Kenneth W. & Snidal, Duncan. (1998). Why States Act through Formal International
Organizations. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 42:1, pp. 3-32.
Abbott, Kenneth W. & Snidal, Duncan. (2000). Hard and soft law in international governance.
International Organization, 54:3, pp. 421-456.
Acharya, Amitav. (2009). Whose Ideas Matter?: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Adil. (2003). The Case Against a New International Environmental Organization. Global
Governance, 9, pp. 367-84.
Akhavan, Payam. (2009). Are International Criminal Tribunals a Disincentive to Peace? Human
Rights Quarterly, 31, pp. 624-654.
Alcacer, Juan & Ingram, Paul. (2013). Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental
Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment. American Journal of Sociology,
118:4, pp. 1055-98.
Aldy, Joseph & Stavins, Robert N. (May/June 2008). Climate Policy Architectures for the PostKyoto World. Environment, 50:3, pp. 6-17.
Alter, Karen J. & Meunier, Sophie. (March 2009). The Politics of International Regime
Complexity. Perspectives on Politics, 7:1, pp. 13-24.
Avant, Deborah D., Finnemore, Martha & Sell, Susan K. (2010). Who Governs the Globe?
(chap. 1, pp. 1-34). Cambridge University Press.
Barnett, Michael & Finnemore, Martha. (2004). Rules for the World: International
Organizations in Global Politics. Cornell University Press.
Barnett, Michael N. (2011). Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press.
Barnett, Michael. (1997). The UN Security Council, Indifference and Genocide in Rwanda.
Cultural Anthropology, 12:4, pp. 551-78.
Bartley, T. (2007). How foundations shape social movements: The construction of an
organizational field and the rise of forest certification. Social Problems, 54:3, pp. 229-55.
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Barton, John H., Goldstein, Judith L., Josling, Timothy E., & Steinberg, Richard H. (2010). The
Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and WTO. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. Chapters 1 ("Political Analysis of the Trade Regime"), 2 (“Creating
Constituencies and Rules for Open Markets”) 6 ("Expansion of GATT/WTO Membership and
the Proliferation of Regional Groups") and Chapter 7 ("Accommodating Nonstate Actors:
Representation of Interests, Ideas, and Information in a State-Centric System").
Beckfield, Jason. (2003). Inequality in the World Polity: The Structure of International
Organization. American Sociological Review, 68:3, pp. 401-24.
Blustein, Paul (2003). The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial
System and Humbled the International Monetary Fund. Revised edition. New York: Public
Affairs. Chapters 1-2 ("The Committee to Save the World" and "Opening the Spigot"), 5-6
("Sleepless in Seoul" and "The Naysayers"), and 13 ("Cooling Off").
Bosco, David L. (2009). Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the
Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bosco, David (2014). Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power
Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chorev, Nitsan. (2012). The World Health Organization between North and South. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press.
Daalder, Ivo & Goldgeier, James. (Sep/Oct 2006). Global NATO. Foreign Affairs, 85:5, pp. 105113.
Dobbin, Frank, Simmons, Beth & Garrett, Geoffrey. (2007). The Global Diffusion of Public
Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition, or Learning? Annual Review of Sociology,
33:1, pp. 449-72.
Drezner, Daniel W. (March 2009). The Power and Peril of International Regime Complexity.
Perspectives on Politics, 7:1, pp. 65-70.
Drezner, Daniel W. (2014). The System Worked: Global Economic Governance during the
Great Recession. World Politics, 66:1, pp. 123-164.
Drezner, Daniel W. (2003). Locating the Proper Authorities: The Interaction of Domestic and
International Institutions. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Eichengreen, Barry. (2011). Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the
Future of the International Monetary System. New York: Oxford University Press.
Eichengreen, Barry. (2008). Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary
System. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Fidler, David P. (2010). The Challenges of Global Health Governance. New York: Council on
Foreign Relations.
Finkelstein, Lawrence S. (Sep-Dec 1995). What is Global Governance? Global Governance, 1:3,
pp. 367-372.
Flint, Adrian. (2011). Governance, the International Trading System and Access to
Antiretrovirals. In HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Politics, Aid and Globalization (pp. 145168). Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Frenk, Julio & Moon, Suerie. (2013). Governance Challenges in Global Health. New England
Journal of Medicine, 368:10, pp. 936-942.
Gostin, L. O. (2012). A framework convention on global health: Health for all, justice for all.
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 307:19, pp. 2087-2092.
Gould, Erica R. (2006). The International Monetary fund, Conditionality, and Supplementary
Financiers. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
Grasso, Marco. (2010). An Ethical Approach to Climate Adaption Finance. Global
Environmental Change, 20:1, pp. 74-81
Gruber, Lloyd. (2000). Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational
Institutions. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Gutner, Tamar L. (2005). Explaining the Gaps between Mandate and Performance: Agency
Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform. Global Environmental Politics, 5:2, pp. 10-37.
Gutner, Tamar L. & Thompson, Alexander. (2010). The Politics of IO Performance: A
Framework. Review of International Organizations, 5:3, pp. 227-248.
Hawkins, Darren G., Lake, David L., Nielson, Daniel L., & Tierney, Michael J. (Eds.). (2006).
Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (chap. 1, Delegation under Anarchy:
States, International Organizations, and Principal-Agent Theory). Cambridge University Press.
Henning, C. Randall. (Summer 1998). Systemic Conflict and Regional Monetary Integration:
The Case of Europe. International Organization, 52, pp. 537-573.
Hurd, Ian. (Spring 1999). Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics. International
Organization, 53:2, pp. 379–408.
Ikenberry, G. John. (2000). After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of
Order after Major Wars (chapters 1, 2, 3). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ikenberry, G. John. (May/June 2011). Future of the Liberal World Order: Internationalism after
America. Foreign Affairs, 90, pp. 56-68
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Jonsson, Christer. (2012). Changing Actors and Actions in the Global Fight Against Aids. In Joel
E. Oestrich, (Ed.), International Organizations as Self-Directed Actors. New York: Routledge.
Joyce, Joseph P. (2013). The IMF and Global Financial Crises: Pheonix Rising? Cambridge.
Chapters 1 ("Introduction"), 2 ("Bretton Woods"), 10 ("The great recession"), and 11 ("The
world turned upside down").
Kahler, Miles & Lake, David A. (Eds.). (2003). Governance in a Global Economy: Political
Authority in Transition (chap. 1, Globalization and Governance). Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press.
Katz, Rebecca & Fischer, Julie. (2010). The Revised International Health Regulations: A
Framework for Global Pandemic Response. Global Health Governance, 3:2.
Katzenstein, Peter J. (1996). Regionalism in comparative perspective. Cooperation and Conflict,
31:2, pp. 123-159.
Keck, Margaret E. & Sikkink, Kathryn. (1998). Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in
International Politics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Keohane, Robert & Slaughter, Anne Marie. (2000). Legalized Dispute Resolution. International
Organization, 54:3, pp. 457–488.
Keohane, Robert & Martin, Lisa. (Summer 1995). The Promise of Institutionalist Theory.
International Security, 20:1, pp. 39-51.
Keohane, Robert O. (1984). After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political
Economy (chap. 1 & 9, pp. 1-17, 182-216). Princeton.
Kickbusch, Ilona. (2005). Action on global health: Addressing global health governance
challenges. Public Health, 119:11, pp. 969-973.
Koremenos, Barbara, Lipson, Charles, & Snidal, Duncan. (2001). The Rational Design of
International Institutions. International Organization, 55:4, pp. 761-799.
Krahmann, Elke. (2003). National, Regional, and Global Governance: One Phenomena or Many?
Global Governance, 9:3, pp. 323-346.
Krasner, Stephen D. (1983). Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as
Intervening Variables. In Stephen D. Krasner, (Ed.), International Regimes. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press.
Lavelle, Kathryn C. (2011). Legislating International Organization: The U.S. Congress, the
IMF and the World Bank. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Marsh, David. (2011). The Euro: The Battle for the New Global Currency. New Haven: Yale
University Press.
Marx, Colin, Halcli, Abigail, & Barnett, Clive. (2012). Locating the global governance of HIV
and AIDS: Exploring the geographies of transnational advocacy networks. Health & Place, 18:3,
pp. 490-495.
Mearsheimer, John J. (1994). The False Promise of International Institutions. International
Security, 19:3, pp. 5-49.
Merry, Sally Engle. (2011). Measuring the World: Indicators, Human Rights, and Global
Governance. Current Anthropology, 52:S3, pp. S83-S95.
Pollack, Mark A. (2003). The Engines of European Integration: Delegation, Agency, and
Agenda Setting in the EU. New York: Oxford University Press.
Posner, Eric A. & Sunstein, Cass R. (Sep 2008). Justice and Climate Change. Discussion Paper
08-04, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
Reinhardt, Carmen M. & Rogoff, Kenneth S. (2009). This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of
Financial Folly. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ruger, Jennifer Prah. (2007). Global health governance and the World Bank. The Lancet,
370:9597, pp. 1471-1474.
Ruger, Jennifer Prah. (2012). Global health governance as shared health governance. Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health, 66:7, pp. 653-661.
Russett, Bruce, et. al. (07/1998), The Third Leg of the Kantian Tripod for Peace. International
Organization, 52:3, pp. 441 – 467.
Sending, Ole Jacob & Neumann, Iver B. (2006). Governance to governmentality: Analyzing
NGOs, states, and power. International Studies Quarterly, 50:3, pp. 651-672.
Slaughter, Anne-Marie. (Winter 2003). Everyday Global Governance. Daedalus, 132:1, pp. 8390.
Solingen, Etel. (June 2008). The Genesis, Design and Effects of Regional Institutions: Lessons
from East Asia and the Middle East. International Studies Quarterly, 52:2, pp. 261-294.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2002). Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton.
Stone, Randall W. (2011). Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global
Economy. New York and Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Thompson, Alexander. (2009). Channels of Power: UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in
Iraq. Cornell.
Tieku, Thomas Kwasi. (2004). Explaining the clash and accommodation of interests of major
actors in the creation of the African Union. African Affairs, 103:411, pp. 249-267.
Victor, David G. & Keohane, Robert O. (2011). The Regime Complex for Climate Change.
Perspectives on Politics, 9:1, pp. 7-23.
Vreeland, James Raymond. (2006). The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional
Lending. New York: Routledge.
Walt, Gill, Lush, Louisiana & Ogden, Jessica. (2004). International Organizations in Transfer of
Infectious Diseases: Iterative Loops of Adoption, Adaptation, and Marketing. Governance, 17:2,
pp. 189-210.
Weiss, Thomas G., Forsythe, David P. & Coate, Roger A. (2009). The United Nations and
Changing World Politics. Boulder: Westview Press.
Wendt, Alex. (1995). Constructing International Politics. International Security, 20:1, pp. 71-81.
Woods, Ngaire. (2006). The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press.
Young, Oran R. (1999). Governance in World Affairs (chap. 1, Governance without
Government). Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Zakaria, Fareed. (2008). The Future of American Power—How America Can Survive the Rise of
the Rest. Foreign Affairs, 87, pp. 18-43.
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