The "globalization debate" is often cast as a dispute between optimists who see global markets working to all societies’ long-term economic advantage and pessimists who fear that international integration will ultimately discourage long-term economic growth and development. As important as it...

Why do states frequently act through supranational institutions, and why do these institutions look the way they do? While most studies emphasize the collective-gains rationale for delegated authority, the analysis presented here raises an altogether different possibility. What makes...

What explains the developing world's newfound enthusiasm for free trade? Are developing country leaders jumping on the NAFTA, EU, APEC, and WTO bandwagons in order to achieve Pareto-improving gains? Or might it simply be their desire not to be left behind while their neighbors "go it alone"?...

Why do international regimes like the European Union, NAFTA, and the WTO exist? The conventional wisdom says it is because they provide positive-sum benefits, facilitating collectively desirable equilibria that their member states could never hope to obtain -- at least not as efficiently -- on...

Taking a fresh look at the European Monetary System and its institutional successor, Europe's newly-inaugurated monetary union, this chapter asks whether power asymmetries and the "threat" of domestic political turnover might be influencing the types of international institutions and dispute...

Taking a fresh look at the European Monetary System and its institutional successor, Europe’s newly-inaugurated monetary union, this paper asks whether power asymmetries and the “threat” of domestic political turnover might be influencing the types of international institutions and dispute...

For several years now, rational choice theorists of international relations have been working aggressively to incorporate models of power, bargaining, and distributional conflict into their larger explanatory edifice. So far, however, few of these theorists have thought to challenge the view,...

This paper calls for a theoretical orientation in the way we think about globalization and its long-term consequences for the poor. In contrast with much of the theoretical literature on globalization to date – the lion’s share of it written by economists – the alternative perspective it...