The definitive volume for anyone interested in historical institutionalism and International Relations.

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: Orfeo Fioretos: Institutions and Time in International Relations


• II. States and Institutions in Time


• 2: Stephen D. Krasner: The Persistence of State Sovereignty


• 3: G. John Ikenberry: The Rise, Character, and Evolution of International Orders


• 4: Abraham L. Newman: Sequencing, Layering, and Feedbacks in Global Regulation


• 5: Tine Hanrieder and Michael Zürn: Reactive Sequences in Global Health Governance


• 6: Joseph Jupille, Walter Mattli, and Duncan Snidal: Dynamics of Institutional Choice


• 7: Henry Farrell and Martha Finemore: Global Institutions without a Global State


• III. Changes and Continuities in International Cooperation


• 8: Etel Solingen and Wilfred Wan: International Security: Critical Junctures, Developmental Pathways, and Institutional Change


• 9: Judith Goldstein and Robert Gulotty: The Limits of Institutional Reform in the United States and the Global Trade Regime


• 10: Eric Helleiner: Incremental Origins of the Bretton Woods


• 11: Kathryn Sikkink: Latin America and the Idea of the International Protection of Human Rights


• 12: Karen J. Alter: The Evolution of International Law and Courts


• 13: Manuela Moschella and Catherine Weaver: Bounded Reform in Global Economic Governance at the IMF and World Bank


• 14: Steven Bernstein and Hamish van der Ven: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics


• IV. Conclusion


• 15: Robert O. Keohane: Observations on the Promise and Pitfalls of Historical Institutionalism in International Relations