Abstract
In my scholarly work, I have sought to understand institutionalized multilateral cooperation in world politics, and the context of such cooperation: extensive economic interdependence, or globalization. What are the political implications of economic interdependence? Under what conditions are states facing globalization willing to share their authority with multilateral organizations over whose policies they exert only indirect and collective influence? I have developed interpretive frameworks and some theory to address these issues. In other work, I have helped to develop precepts for qualitative research design, and I have explored some normative issues associated with institutional accountability and legitimacy. My work on multilateral institutions, which was done in a period of increasing multilateral cooperation, is challenged by increasing inequality in capitalist democracies, financial crisis, and nationalist forms of populism. I am now seeking to understand the international and comparative politics of climate change, which I regard as an existential crisis.
Highlights
I was born in 1941, on the verge of America’s entry into World War II, and came to maturity during the height of what Henry R
What are the political implications of economic interdependence? Under what conditions are states facing globalization willing to share their authority with multilateral organizations over whose policies they exert only indirect and collective influence? I have developed interpretive frameworks and some theory to address these issues
Concerns about world politics were deeply embedded in my identity, but, perhaps due to my activism on Vietnam, I never identified with the American foreign policy establishment or sought influence on American foreign policy
Summary
I was born in 1941, on the verge of America’s entry into World War II, and came to maturity during the height of what Henry R. Power and Interdependence took some steps toward understanding cooperation and discord in world politics, but it did not arrive at an explanatory theory. The functional theory of After Hegemony holds that international institutions are created in a world of interstate politics without common government because their existence, within a legal framework, is expected to lower the transaction costs of bargaining and reduce uncertainty.
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