Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

314 Pages·2002·1.11 MB·English

by  Robert Keohane

Power and Governance in a
Partially Globalized World
Robert O. Keohane has been one of the most innovative and influential
thinkers in international relations for more than three decades. His ground-
breaking 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 ori-
ginal 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.
Robert O. Keohane is James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke
University. He has also taught at Swarthmore College, Stanford, Brandeis,
and Harvard. His publications include After Hegemony (Princeton Uni-
versity Press 1984), International Institutions and State Power (Westview
1989), Ideas and Foreign Policy, co-edited with Judith Goldstein (Cornell
University Press 1993), and Power and Interdependence, co-authored with
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (third edition: Addison Wesley Longman 2001).

Power and Governance in a
Partially Globalized World
Robert O. Keohane
London and New York
First published 2002
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
© 2002 Robert O. Keohane
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction: from interdependence and institutions to
globalization and governance 1
ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 2002
From interdependence to institutional theory 2
Institutional and realist theory 6
Institutionalism and the puzzle of compliance 7
Liberalism, sovereignty and security 10
From institutions to law 12
From interdependence to globalism 14
From institutions to governance 15
PART I
Interdependence and institutions 25
2 International institutions: can interdependence work? 27
ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 1998
Theory and reality, 1919–89 28
Yesterday’s controversies: 1989–95 31
Today’s debates 32
Overcoming the democratic deficit 34
Want to know more? 37
3 International liberalism reconsidered 39
ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 1990
Marxism and realism 41
viii Contents
Liberalism as a theory of international relations 44
Evaluating liberalism: doctrine and practice 53
4 Hobbes’s dilemma and institutional change in world politics:
sovereignty in international society 63
ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 1995
Hobbes’s dilemma and the institutionalist response 66
Institutions: constitutional government and sovereignty 68
Sovereignty under conditions of high interdependence 71
Zones of peace and conflict: a partially Hobbesian world 75
Responses to conflict: is the United States bound to lead? 77
Conclusion 79
5 Risk, threat, and security institutions 88
CELESTE A. WALLANDER AND ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 1999
A typology of security institutions 90
Institutional hypotheses on change and adaptation 95
The transformation of NATO 104
Conclusions 108
PART II
Law 115
6 International relations and international law: two optics 117
ROBERT O. KEOHANE, 1996
The “instrumentalist optic” 119
International law and the “normative optic” 120
Evaluation 122
The optics’ causal pathways and their common nodes 123
Conclusion 128
7 The concept of legalization 132
KENNETH W. ABBOTT, ROBERT O. KEOHANE,
ANDREW MORAVCSIK, ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER AND
DUNCAN SNIDAL, 2000
The elements of legalization 132
The variability of legalization 134
The dimensions of legalization 139
Conclusion 148