Effective mitigation of climate change will require deep international cooperation, which is
much more difficult to organize than the shallow coordination observed so far. Assessing the …

Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice
personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable …

Culture matters in social theory construction because the metaphysical component of the
theoretical hard core is primarily shaped by the background knowledge of a cultural …

Why do international organizations (IOs) look so different, yet so similar? The possibilities
are diverse. Some international organizations have just a few member states, while others …

There is no integrated regime governing efforts to limit the extent of climate change. Instead,
there is a regime complex: a loosely-coupled set of specific regimes. We describe the …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single
country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent …

Since the Cold War ended, Western policymakers have sought to create security
arrangements in Europe, as well as in other regions of the globe, that are based on …

Metodi Sotirov, Maike Stelter and Georg Winkel, The emergence of the European Union
Timber Regulation: How Baptists, Bootleggers, devil shifting and moral legitimacy drive …

Extensive empirical evidence and theoretical developments in multiple disciplines stimulate
a need to expand the range of rational choice models to be used as a foundation for the …