The phenomenon of the Arab Spring divided both experts and politicians. On the one hand many European and American decision-makers called the Arab Spring as the fourth wave of worldwide democratization pointing to the potentially positive outcome of the on-going transition process in Egypt or...

The paper aims to show how the formal revolution in economics has influenced the developments of Rational Choice and Game Theory in Political Science. Our focus will be on American political scientist William H. Riker (1920-1993). We want to show how Riker used game theory and adapted it to...

The article puts forward a historical institutionalist account of how international organizations are ‘designed.’ I argue that deliberate institutional design is circumscribed by path-dependent power dynamics within international organizations. Power-driven path dependence is used to explain...