Rising powers often seek to reshape the world order, triggering confrontations with those
who seek to defend the status quo. In recent years, as international institutions have grown …

This review analyzes the methods being used and developed in global environmental
governance (GEG), an applied field that employs insights and tools from a variety of …

Whaling as a commercial enterprise is now defunct, not least due to the moratorium placed
on it by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) almost 20 years ago. However, two …

Do regional hegemons use their power in regional organizations to advance foreign policy
objectives? The authors investigate whether Japan leverages its privileged position at the …

Why do states create overlap** international institutions? This practice presents a puzzle:
conventional wisdom suggests that states should use existing institutions to minimize the …

Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) of develo**
countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors increasingly rely on …

Why are anti-and pro-whaling coalitions still engaged in morally heated confrontations over
whales tracing back to the 1970s? Revisiting the global whaling controversy, this article …

The conventional wisdom emphasizes agency slack or bias as the central problem of
international delegation. I show that the possibility of a unilateral influence contest is equally …

Why do states ratify international treaties? While previous research has emphasized
domestic political factors, we focus on power politics in situations in which powerful states …

Negligible effects of removing whales on commercial fish biomass relative to the effect of a
fishing moratorium. Estimated increases in fish biomass for best estimates of whale feeding …