Keohane Robert O. Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

Routledge, 2002. — 298 p.Robert O. Keohane has been one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in international relations for more than three decades. His groundbreaking work in institutional theory has redefined our understanding of international political economy. This book is a selection of his most recent
essays, which address such core issues as interdependence, institutions, the development of international law, globalization, and global governance. The essays are placed in historical and intellectual context by a substantial new introduction outlining the developments in Keohane’s thought. In an original afterword (Chapter 12), the author offers a challenging interpretation
of the September 11th attacks and their aftermath. Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World is essential reading for anyone with an interest in international relations.
Introduction: from interdependence and institutions to globalization and governance.
From interdependence to institutional theory.
Institutional and realist theory.
Institutionalism and the puzzle of compliance.
Liberalism, sovereignty and security.
From institutions to law.
From interdependence to globalism.
From institutions to governance.
Interdependence and institutions.
International institutions: can interdependence work?
Theory and reality, 1919–89.
Yesterday’s controversies: 1989–95.
Today’s debates.
Overcoming the democratic deficit.
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International liberalism reconsidered.
Marxism and realism.
Liberalism as a theory of international relations.
Evaluating liberalism: doctrine and practice.
Hobbes’s dilemma and institutional change in world politics: sovereignty in international society.
Hobbes’s dilemma and the institutionalist response.
Institutions: constitutional government and sovereignty.
Sovereignty under conditions of high interdependence.
Zones of peace and conflict: a partially Hobbesian world.
Responses to conflict: is the United States bound to lead?
Risk, threat, and security institutions.
A typology of security institutions.
Institutional hypotheses on change and adaptation.
The transformation of NATO 1.
Law.
International relations and international law: two optics.
The instrumentalist optic.
International law and the normative optic.
Evaluation.
The optics’ causal pathways and their common nodes.
The concept of legalization.
The elements of legalization.
The variability of legalization.
The dimensions of legalization.
Legalized dispute resolution: interstate and transnational.
A typology of dispute resolution.
The politics of litigation and compliance: from interstate to judicial politics.
The interstate and transnational dynamics of legalization.
Globalism, liberalism, and governance.
Governance in a globalizing world.
Defining globalism.
Globalization and levels of governance.
Globalization and domestic governance.
The governance of globalism: regimes, networks, norms.
Conclusions: globalism and governance.
The club model of multilateral cooperation and problems of democratic legitimacy.
The club model of multilateral cooperation.
Adversary democracy and unitary democracy in global institutions.
Transparency and participation in the WTO.
Democracy, legitimacy, and accountability.
Conclusions: the WTO, legitimacy, and governance.
Governance in a partially globalized world.
Desirable institutions for a partially globalized world.
Institutional existence and power.
Institutional design: bringing ideals and reality together.
The globalization of informal violence, theories.
of world politics, and the liberalism of fear.
The globalization of informal violence and the reconceptualization of space.
Interdependence and power.
Institutions and legitimacy.
The liberalism of fear.