International Institutions

The Emerging World Order in the 21st Century: An English School Approach

Global International Society will survive, though it will be neither under the aegis of the hegemonic Liberal International Order nor a bipolar Cold War-type order.

Review – Underground Empire

Andrew Latham • Oct 21 2025 • Features

Farrell and Newman show how U.S. control of global infrastructure became a source of power and how its overuse now threatens the very system it built.

Why Polarity Misleads: Toward a New Grammar of International Relations

Arthur Michelino • Sep 26 2025 • Articles

The appeal of polarity lies in its simplicity, but it no longer reflects the architecture of global politics.

Interview – Stéphanie Martel

E-International Relations • Sep 1 2024 • Features

Stéphanie Martel explores the role of multilateral institutions, ASEAN’s aspirations to create a ‘security community’, and Canada’s international role.

The Technocratic Legacies of International Organisations

Jan Eijking • Jul 6 2023 • Articles

Studying technocratic internationalism puts the intellectual legacies of present-day international organisations into needed perspective—with exciting results.

International Organisations and Global Stratification: Rethinking IR’s Cooperation Paradigm

Caroline Fehl and Katja Freistein • Nov 11 2020 • Articles

IR institutionalists have rarely accounted for the reproduction of systemic inequalities within and across institutions.

The Process of European Integration Through the Lenses of Institutionalism

Albert Hayrapetyan • Sep 6 2020 • Articles

Institutionalism is probably the least helpful theory towards understanding the major events in the history of European integration.

Global Governance and COVID-19: The Implications of Fragmentation and Inequality

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Antulio Rosales • May 6 2020 • Articles

COVID-19 has seen nation-state specific solutions become the norm, but this fragmented response faces important limitations in implementing a global response.

The End of the Global Liberal Order?

Mauro F. Guillén • Mar 4 2017 • Articles

The global liberal order still represents the best option for a peaceful and prosperous future, but it will need to be reformed or it will become moribund.

Interview – Robert O. Keohane

E-International Relations • Feb 26 2016 • Features

Robert Keohane explains why IR should be world politics, that globalization does not equal democratization, and he relates to the ways theory has improved.

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