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Martha Finnemore

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ID1000319
NAMEMartha Finnemore
GIVEN NAMESMartha
FAMILY NAMEFinnemore
SIGNATUREFINNEMORE M
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Washington University
ORCID0000-0002-6828-1641
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS4741
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX14
  • When “Old” Constructivism Was New: Reflections on Classical Constructivism

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Alexander Wendt•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2024•Cited by: 4

    New lines of theorizing in international relations don’t appear very often. Realism proudly proclaims a lineage of 2,500-odd years. Liberalism, in its various forms, traces its roots back several centuries. The appearance and spread of constructivism in the 1990s thus invite explanation. In this essay we explore the “construction of constructivism”—both the conditions of possibility for intellectual change and the goals of scholars proposing it. …

  • Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display

    Lee Ann Fujii, Martha Finnemore•BOOK•Show Time•2021

  • Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display

    Open Access•Lee Ann Fujii, Elisabeth Jean Wood et al.•BOOK•Show Time•2021•Cited by: 18

    This book asks why some perpetrators of political violence, from lynch mobs to genocidal killers, display their acts of violence so publicly and extravagantly. Closely examining three horrific and extreme episodes — the murder of a prominent Tutsi family amidst the genocide in Rwanda, the execution of Muslim men in a Serb-controlled village in Bosnia during the Balkan Wars, and the lynching of a twenty-two-year old Black farmhand on Maryland's Ea…

  • Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 10

  • Beyond Naming and Shaming: Accusations and International Law in Cybersecurity

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Duncan B Hollis•ARTICLE•European Journal of International…•2020•Cited by: 12

    Accusations of bad state behaviour in cyberspace are proliferating, yet this increase in naming has not obviously produced much shame. Accused states uniformly deny the accusation or decline to comment, without changing behaviour. For international lawyers, the problem is compounded by the absence of international law in these charges. States are not invoking international law when they complain of other states’ behaviour, suggesting the law is w…

  • The Politics of Aspiration

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Michelle Jurkovich•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2020•Cited by: 23•References: 46

    Aspiration is an essential component of politics. It articulates goals, affirms identities and values, and structures action at all levels of social life. Yet political scientists have spent little time theorizing aspiration—what it is, how it relates to other concepts, and the kinds of effects it creates. In this article, we develop the concept theoretically and argue that aspiration creates a distinct “aspirational politics” that differs from o…

  • Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics

    Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore•BOOK•Rules for the World•2019•Cited by: 212

    Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett an…

  • The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force

    Martha Finnemore•BOOK•Purpose of Intervention•2019•Cited by: 90

    Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its members' priorities. In The Purpose of Intervention , Martha Finnemore uses one type of force, military intervention, as a window onto the shifting character of int…

  • Ethical Dilemmas in Cyberspace

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Ethics & International Affairs•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This essay steps back from the more detailed regulatory discussions in other contributions to this roundtable on “Competing Visions for Cyberspace” and highlights three broad issues that raise ethical concerns about our activity online. First, the commodification of people—their identities, their data, their privacy—that lies at the heart of business models of many of the largest information and communication technologies companies risks instrume…

  • The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations

    Michael N Barnett, Michael Barnett et al.•CHAPTER•International Organization•2017

    Do international organizations really do what their creators intend them to do? In the past century the number of international organizations (IOs) has increased exponentially, and we have a variety of vigorous theories to explain why they have been created. Most of these theories explain 10 creation as a response to problems of incomplete information, transaction costs, and other barriers to Pareto efficiency and welfare improvement for their me…

  • Minutes of April 2016, Apsa Council Meeting

    Open Access•Jennifer Hochschild, David Lake et al.•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2017

    Hochschild discussed her goals to improve the annual meeting, as well as improving

  • Constructing Norms for Global Cybersecurity

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Duncan B Hollis•ARTICLE•American Journal of International…•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 64

    On February 16, 2016, a U.S. court ordered Apple to circumvent the security features of an iPhone 5C used by one of the terrorists who committed the San Bernardino shootings. Apple refused. It argued that breaking encryption for one phone could not be done without undermining the security of encryption more generally. It made a public appeal for “everyone to step back and consider the implications” of having a “back door” key to unlock any phone—…

  • Getting a Seat at the Table: The Origins of Universal Participation and Modern Multilateral Conferences

    Martha Finnemore, Michelle Jurkovich•ARTICLE•Global Governance A Review of…•2014•Cited by: 11

    Inclusive participation by all states is now taken for granted in many global governance efforts, but this was not always the normal practice. Nineteenth-century multilateralism, embedded in a world of “great powers,” actively rejected broad participation, valuing small numbers, hierarchy, and status in coordinating action. Construction of broader participation norms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a joint project that ow…

  • Dynamics of Global Governance: Building on What We Know

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2014•Cited by: 22•References: 17

    It is hard to quarrel with Weiss and Wilkinson's argument that deeper investigation of global governance could have big payoffs, and the four "primary pursuits" or research tasks they sketch will interest many scholars in this field. My concern is that while Weiss and Wilkinson nicely describe the importance of these tasks, they offer only cursory suggestions about ways forward when they could do much more. Unlike Weiss and Wilkinson (hereafter W…

  • Back to Basics: State Power in a Contemporary World

    Martha Finnemore, Judith Goldstein•BOOK•Back to Basics: State Power in a…•2013

    State power has been a bedrock concept in international relations for centuries, but it has taken a backseat in recent years to other topics—information, interests, identity, audiences, to name a few. Back to Basics brings state power back to center stage and sets an agenda for new theorizing about its role in international relations. In this volume, some of the field’s top scholars tackle a wide array of “puzzles about power” and offer new ways …

  • Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity: Why being a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•CHAPTER•International Relations Theory…•2011

    Despite preponderant power, unipoles often do not get their way. Why? Scholars interested in polarity and the systemic structures determined by the distribution of power have largely focused on material power alone, but the structure of world politics is as much social as it is material. In this article the author explores three social mechanisms that limit unipolar power and shape its possible uses. The first involves legitimation. To exercise p…

  • International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Stephen M Walt et al.•BOOK•International Relations Theory…•2011

    The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experi…

  • Who Governs the Globe?

    Open Access•Deborah D Avant, Martha Finnemore et al.•BOOK•Who Governs the Globe?•2010

    Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety of actors such as international organizations, corporations, professional associations, and advocacy groups, all seeking to 'govern' activity surroundi…

  • Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy

    Henry Farrell, Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2009•Cited by: 22•References: 5

    This paper explores disjunctures between ontology and methodology in the American school to better understand both the limits of this approach and ways we can counter its blind spots. Tierney and Maliniak's TRIP data point to a strong elective affinity between, on the one hand, rationalist/liberal ontological assumptions and quantitative methodologies, and on the other, constructivist assumptions and qualitative methodologies. This affinity is ne…

  • Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•World Politics•2009•Cited by: 3

  • Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•World Politics•2009•Cited by: 98

    Despite preponderant power, unipoles often do not get their way. Why? Scholars interested in polarity and the systemic structures determined by the distribution of power have largely focused on material power alone, but the structure of world politics is as much social as it is material. In this article the author explores three social mechanisms that limit unipolar power and shape its possible uses. The first involves legitimation. To exercise p…

  • Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and International Order

    Martha Finnemore, G John Ikenberry•ARTICLE•Foreign Affairs•2006•Cited by: 7

  • The New Transnationalism and Comparative Politics

    Mitchell A Orenstein, Hans Peter Schmitz et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2006•Cited by: 22•References: 15

    In the back jacket blurb to Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore's Rules for the World, Thomas Weiss writes, realists beware, noting that states matter, but so do their creations, organizations. He might have extended this caution to comparativists as well, since both comparative politics and relations scholars are increasingly challenged to respond to the rising significance of transna tional activities by state, nonstate, and subnational actors…

  • Fights about rules: The role of efficacy and power in changing multilateralism

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Studies•2005•Cited by: 7

    The American-led Iraq war that began in 2003 has generated intense discussion about when it is legitimate to use force and what force can accomplish. Often this debate is portrayed as a breakdown in consensus, with the US charting a new unilateralist course that undermines existing multilateral understandings of how force should be used. Often, too, the debate is portrayed as a transatlantic one in which Europeans (notably France, supported by Ge…

  • The power of liberal international organizations

    Open Access•Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore•CHAPTER•Power in Global Governance•2004

    International organizations are at the hub of most theoretical and historical discussions of global governance. Politicians, publics, and theorists alike believe that a globalizing world requires mechanisms to manage the growing complexity of crossnational interactions, and international organizations are the mechanism of choice. As a result of this vision, states have established more and more international organizations (IOs) to perform an incr…

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  • International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Kathryn Sikkink•ARTICLE•International Organization•1998•Cited by: 2556•References: 131

    Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping “ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern in the field. Much theorizing about norms has focused on how they create social structure, standards of appropriateness, and stability in international politics. Recent empirical research on norms, in contrast, has examined their role in creating political change, but c…

  • The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations

    Open Access•Michael N Barnett, Michael Barnett et al.•ARTICLE•International Organization•1999•Cited by: 618•References: 53

    International Relations scholars have vigorous theories to explain why international organizations (IOs) are created, but they have paid little attention to IO behavior and whether IOs actually do what their creators intend. This blind spot flows logically from the economic theories of organization that have dominated the study of international institutions and regimes. To recover the agency and autonomy of IOs, we offer a constructivist approach…

  • Norms, culture, and world politics: Insights From Sociology's Institutionalism

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Organization•1996•Cited by: 329•References: 22

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • International organizations as teachers of norms: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cutural Organization and science policy

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Organization•1993•Cited by: 313•References: 18

    Most explanations for the creation of new state institutions locate the cause of change in the conditions or characteristics of the states themselves. Some aspect of a state's economic, social, political, or military situation is said to create a functional need for the new bureaucracy which then is taken up by one or more domestic groups who succeed in changing the state apparatus. However, changes in state structure may be prompted not only by …

  • Takingstock: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations and Comparative Politics

    Martha Finnemore, Kathryn Sikkink•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Political Science•2001•Cited by: 259•References: 42

    Constructivism is an approach to social analysis that deals with the role of human consciousness in social life. It asserts that human interaction is shaped primarily by ideational factors, not simply material ones; that the most important ideational factors are widely shared or "intersubjective" beliefs, which are not reducible to individuals; and that these shared beliefs construct the interests of purposive actors. In international relations, …

  • Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics

    Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore•BOOK•Rules for the World•2019•Cited by: 212

    Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett an…

  • Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•World Politics•2009•Cited by: 98

    Despite preponderant power, unipoles often do not get their way. Why? Scholars interested in polarity and the systemic structures determined by the distribution of power have largely focused on material power alone, but the structure of world politics is as much social as it is material. In this article the author explores three social mechanisms that limit unipolar power and shape its possible uses. The first involves legitimation. To exercise p…

  • The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force

    Martha Finnemore•BOOK•Purpose of Intervention•2019•Cited by: 90

    Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its members' priorities. In The Purpose of Intervention , Martha Finnemore uses one type of force, military intervention, as a window onto the shifting character of int…

  • Alternatives to “Legalization: Richer Views of Law and Politics

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Stephen J Toope•ARTICLE•International Organization•2001•Cited by: 90•References: 23

    The authors of “Legalization and World Politics” (International Organization, 54, 3, summer 2000) define “legalization” as the degree of obligation, precision, and delegation that international institutions possess. We argue that this definition is unnecessarily narrow. Law is a broad social phenomenon that is deeply embedded in the practices, beliefs, and traditions of societies. Understanding its role in politics requires attention to the legit…

  • The Politics of Aspiration

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Michelle Jurkovich•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2020•Cited by: 23•References: 46

    Aspiration is an essential component of politics. It articulates goals, affirms identities and values, and structures action at all levels of social life. Yet political scientists have spent little time theorizing aspiration—what it is, how it relates to other concepts, and the kinds of effects it creates. In this article, we develop the concept theoretically and argue that aspiration creates a distinct “aspirational politics” that differs from o…

  • Dynamics of Global Governance: Building on What We Know

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2014•Cited by: 22•References: 17

    It is hard to quarrel with Weiss and Wilkinson's argument that deeper investigation of global governance could have big payoffs, and the four "primary pursuits" or research tasks they sketch will interest many scholars in this field. My concern is that while Weiss and Wilkinson nicely describe the importance of these tasks, they offer only cursory suggestions about ways forward when they could do much more. Unlike Weiss and Wilkinson (hereafter W…

  • Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy

    Henry Farrell, Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2009•Cited by: 22•References: 5

    This paper explores disjunctures between ontology and methodology in the American school to better understand both the limits of this approach and ways we can counter its blind spots. Tierney and Maliniak's TRIP data point to a strong elective affinity between, on the one hand, rationalist/liberal ontological assumptions and quantitative methodologies, and on the other, constructivist assumptions and qualitative methodologies. This affinity is ne…

  • The New Transnationalism and Comparative Politics

    Mitchell A Orenstein, Hans Peter Schmitz et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2006•Cited by: 22•References: 15

    In the back jacket blurb to Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore's Rules for the World, Thomas Weiss writes, realists beware, noting that states matter, but so do their creations, organizations. He might have extended this caution to comparativists as well, since both comparative politics and relations scholars are increasingly challenged to respond to the rising significance of transna tional activities by state, nonstate, and subnational actors…

  • Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display

    Open Access•Lee Ann Fujii, Elisabeth Jean Wood et al.•BOOK•Show Time•2021•Cited by: 18

    This book asks why some perpetrators of political violence, from lynch mobs to genocidal killers, display their acts of violence so publicly and extravagantly. Closely examining three horrific and extreme episodes — the murder of a prominent Tutsi family amidst the genocide in Rwanda, the execution of Muslim men in a Serb-controlled village in Bosnia during the Balkan Wars, and the lynching of a twenty-two-year old Black farmhand on Maryland's Ea…

  • Constructing Norms for Global Cybersecurity

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Duncan B Hollis•ARTICLE•American Journal of International…•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 64

    On February 16, 2016, a U.S. court ordered Apple to circumvent the security features of an iPhone 5C used by one of the terrorists who committed the San Bernardino shootings. Apple refused. It argued that breaking encryption for one phone could not be done without undermining the security of encryption more generally. It made a public appeal for “everyone to step back and consider the implications” of having a “back door” key to unlock any phone—…

  • Beyond Naming and Shaming: Accusations and International Law in Cybersecurity

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Duncan B Hollis•ARTICLE•European Journal of International…•2020•Cited by: 12

    Accusations of bad state behaviour in cyberspace are proliferating, yet this increase in naming has not obviously produced much shame. Accused states uniformly deny the accusation or decline to comment, without changing behaviour. For international lawyers, the problem is compounded by the absence of international law in these charges. States are not invoking international law when they complain of other states’ behaviour, suggesting the law is w…

  • Getting a Seat at the Table: The Origins of Universal Participation and Modern Multilateral Conferences

    Martha Finnemore, Michelle Jurkovich•ARTICLE•Global Governance A Review of…•2014•Cited by: 11

    Inclusive participation by all states is now taken for granted in many global governance efforts, but this was not always the normal practice. Nineteenth-century multilateralism, embedded in a world of “great powers,” actively rejected broad participation, valuing small numbers, hierarchy, and status in coordinating action. Construction of broader participation norms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a joint project that ow…

  • Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and International Order

    Martha Finnemore, G John Ikenberry•ARTICLE•Foreign Affairs•2006•Cited by: 7

  • Fights about rules: The role of efficacy and power in changing multilateralism

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Studies•2005•Cited by: 7

    The American-led Iraq war that began in 2003 has generated intense discussion about when it is legitimate to use force and what force can accomplish. Often this debate is portrayed as a breakdown in consensus, with the US charting a new unilateralist course that undermines existing multilateral understandings of how force should be used. Often, too, the debate is portrayed as a transatlantic one in which Europeans (notably France, supported by Ge…

  • Exporting the English School

    Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Studies•2001•Cited by: 7

    Barry Buzan's essay provides a welcome forum for discussion about the virtues and future direction of the English School as a resource for IR research. Like many American With apologies to my Canadian colleagues, I use the term American to mean US. I am uncomfortable ascribing the concerns outlined here to scholars in Canada who have intellectual traditions of their own and may well have a different perspective on these matters. constructivists, …

  • When “Old” Constructivism Was New: Reflections on Classical Constructivism

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Alexander Wendt•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2024•Cited by: 4

    New lines of theorizing in international relations don’t appear very often. Realism proudly proclaims a lineage of 2,500-odd years. Liberalism, in its various forms, traces its roots back several centuries. The appearance and spread of constructivism in the 1990s thus invite explanation. In this essay we explore the “construction of constructivism”—both the conditions of possibility for intellectual change and the goals of scholars proposing it. …

  • Lessons from public administration for global governance: Conclusions of the special issue on “International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System.”

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 10

  • Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•World Politics•2009•Cited by: 3

  • Ethical Dilemmas in Cyberspace

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Ethics & International Affairs•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This essay steps back from the more detailed regulatory discussions in other contributions to this roundtable on “Competing Visions for Cyberspace” and highlights three broad issues that raise ethical concerns about our activity online. First, the commodification of people—their identities, their data, their privacy—that lies at the heart of business models of many of the largest information and communication technologies companies risks instrume…

  • International organizations as teachers of norms: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cutural Organization and science policy

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Organization•1993•Cited by: 313•References: 18

    Most explanations for the creation of new state institutions locate the cause of change in the conditions or characteristics of the states themselves. Some aspect of a state's economic, social, political, or military situation is said to create a functional need for the new bureaucracy which then is taken up by one or more domestic groups who succeed in changing the state apparatus. However, changes in state structure may be prompted not only by …

  • National Interests in International Society

    Martha Finnemore•BOOK•National Interests in International…•1996

    How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological institutionalism to develop a systemic approach to state interests and state behavior by investigating an international structure not of power but of meaning and social value. An understanding of what sta…

  • Norms, culture, and world politics: Insights From Sociology's Institutionalism

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Organization•1996•Cited by: 329•References: 22

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • People in Political Science

    Open Access•Diane Blair, George Iii et al.•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•1998

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button

  • International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Kathryn Sikkink•ARTICLE•International Organization•1998•Cited by: 2556•References: 131

    Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping “ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern in the field. Much theorizing about norms has focused on how they create social structure, standards of appropriateness, and stability in international politics. Recent empirical research on norms, in contrast, has examined their role in creating political change, but c…

  • The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations

    Open Access•Michael N Barnett, Michael Barnett et al.•ARTICLE•International Organization•1999•Cited by: 618•References: 53

    International Relations scholars have vigorous theories to explain why international organizations (IOs) are created, but they have paid little attention to IO behavior and whether IOs actually do what their creators intend. This blind spot flows logically from the economic theories of organization that have dominated the study of international institutions and regimes. To recover the agency and autonomy of IOs, we offer a constructivist approach…

  • Exporting the English School

    Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Studies•2001•Cited by: 7

    Barry Buzan's essay provides a welcome forum for discussion about the virtues and future direction of the English School as a resource for IR research. Like many American With apologies to my Canadian colleagues, I use the term American to mean US. I am uncomfortable ascribing the concerns outlined here to scholars in Canada who have intellectual traditions of their own and may well have a different perspective on these matters. constructivists, …

  • Alternatives to “Legalization: Richer Views of Law and Politics

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Stephen J Toope•ARTICLE•International Organization•2001•Cited by: 90•References: 23

    The authors of “Legalization and World Politics” (International Organization, 54, 3, summer 2000) define “legalization” as the degree of obligation, precision, and delegation that international institutions possess. We argue that this definition is unnecessarily narrow. Law is a broad social phenomenon that is deeply embedded in the practices, beliefs, and traditions of societies. Understanding its role in politics requires attention to the legit…

  • Takingstock: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations and Comparative Politics

    Martha Finnemore, Kathryn Sikkink•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Political Science•2001•Cited by: 259•References: 42

    Constructivism is an approach to social analysis that deals with the role of human consciousness in social life. It asserts that human interaction is shaped primarily by ideational factors, not simply material ones; that the most important ideational factors are widely shared or "intersubjective" beliefs, which are not reducible to individuals; and that these shared beliefs construct the interests of purposive actors. In international relations, …

  • The power of liberal international organizations

    Open Access•Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore•CHAPTER•Power in Global Governance•2004

    International organizations are at the hub of most theoretical and historical discussions of global governance. Politicians, publics, and theorists alike believe that a globalizing world requires mechanisms to manage the growing complexity of crossnational interactions, and international organizations are the mechanism of choice. As a result of this vision, states have established more and more international organizations (IOs) to perform an incr…

  • Fights about rules: The role of efficacy and power in changing multilateralism

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Studies•2005•Cited by: 7

    The American-led Iraq war that began in 2003 has generated intense discussion about when it is legitimate to use force and what force can accomplish. Often this debate is portrayed as a breakdown in consensus, with the US charting a new unilateralist course that undermines existing multilateral understandings of how force should be used. Often, too, the debate is portrayed as a transatlantic one in which Europeans (notably France, supported by Ge…

  • Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and International Order

    Martha Finnemore, G John Ikenberry•ARTICLE•Foreign Affairs•2006•Cited by: 7

  • The New Transnationalism and Comparative Politics

    Mitchell A Orenstein, Hans Peter Schmitz et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2006•Cited by: 22•References: 15

    In the back jacket blurb to Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore's Rules for the World, Thomas Weiss writes, realists beware, noting that states matter, but so do their creations, organizations. He might have extended this caution to comparativists as well, since both comparative politics and relations scholars are increasingly challenged to respond to the rising significance of transna tional activities by state, nonstate, and subnational actors…

  • Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy

    Henry Farrell, Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2009•Cited by: 22•References: 5

    This paper explores disjunctures between ontology and methodology in the American school to better understand both the limits of this approach and ways we can counter its blind spots. Tierney and Maliniak's TRIP data point to a strong elective affinity between, on the one hand, rationalist/liberal ontological assumptions and quantitative methodologies, and on the other, constructivist assumptions and qualitative methodologies. This affinity is ne…

  • Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•World Politics•2009•Cited by: 3

  • Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity: Why Being a Unipole Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•World Politics•2009•Cited by: 98

    Despite preponderant power, unipoles often do not get their way. Why? Scholars interested in polarity and the systemic structures determined by the distribution of power have largely focused on material power alone, but the structure of world politics is as much social as it is material. In this article the author explores three social mechanisms that limit unipolar power and shape its possible uses. The first involves legitimation. To exercise p…

  • Who Governs the Globe?

    Open Access•Deborah D Avant, Martha Finnemore et al.•BOOK•Who Governs the Globe?•2010

    Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety of actors such as international organizations, corporations, professional associations, and advocacy groups, all seeking to 'govern' activity surroundi…

  • Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity: Why being a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•CHAPTER•International Relations Theory…•2011

    Despite preponderant power, unipoles often do not get their way. Why? Scholars interested in polarity and the systemic structures determined by the distribution of power have largely focused on material power alone, but the structure of world politics is as much social as it is material. In this article the author explores three social mechanisms that limit unipolar power and shape its possible uses. The first involves legitimation. To exercise p…

  • International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Stephen M Walt et al.•BOOK•International Relations Theory…•2011

    The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations theory. Since the Enlightenment, scholars have speculated that patterns of cooperation and conflict might be systematically related to the manner in which power is distributed among states. Most of what we know about this relationship, however, is based on European experi…

  • Back to Basics: State Power in a Contemporary World

    Martha Finnemore, Judith Goldstein•BOOK•Back to Basics: State Power in a…•2013

    State power has been a bedrock concept in international relations for centuries, but it has taken a backseat in recent years to other topics—information, interests, identity, audiences, to name a few. Back to Basics brings state power back to center stage and sets an agenda for new theorizing about its role in international relations. In this volume, some of the field’s top scholars tackle a wide array of “puzzles about power” and offer new ways …

  • Getting a Seat at the Table: The Origins of Universal Participation and Modern Multilateral Conferences

    Martha Finnemore, Michelle Jurkovich•ARTICLE•Global Governance A Review of…•2014•Cited by: 11

    Inclusive participation by all states is now taken for granted in many global governance efforts, but this was not always the normal practice. Nineteenth-century multilateralism, embedded in a world of “great powers,” actively rejected broad participation, valuing small numbers, hierarchy, and status in coordinating action. Construction of broader participation norms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a joint project that ow…

  • Dynamics of Global Governance: Building on What We Know

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2014•Cited by: 22•References: 17

    It is hard to quarrel with Weiss and Wilkinson's argument that deeper investigation of global governance could have big payoffs, and the four "primary pursuits" or research tasks they sketch will interest many scholars in this field. My concern is that while Weiss and Wilkinson nicely describe the importance of these tasks, they offer only cursory suggestions about ways forward when they could do much more. Unlike Weiss and Wilkinson (hereafter W…

  • Constructing Norms for Global Cybersecurity

    Open Access•Martha Finnemore, Duncan B Hollis•ARTICLE•American Journal of International…•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 64

    On February 16, 2016, a U.S. court ordered Apple to circumvent the security features of an iPhone 5C used by one of the terrorists who committed the San Bernardino shootings. Apple refused. It argued that breaking encryption for one phone could not be done without undermining the security of encryption more generally. It made a public appeal for “everyone to step back and consider the implications” of having a “back door” key to unlock any phone—…

  • The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations

    Michael N Barnett, Michael Barnett et al.•CHAPTER•International Organization•2017

    Do international organizations really do what their creators intend them to do? In the past century the number of international organizations (IOs) has increased exponentially, and we have a variety of vigorous theories to explain why they have been created. Most of these theories explain 10 creation as a response to problems of incomplete information, transaction costs, and other barriers to Pareto efficiency and welfare improvement for their me…

  • Minutes of April 2016, Apsa Council Meeting

    Open Access•Jennifer Hochschild, David Lake et al.•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2017

    Hochschild discussed her goals to improve the annual meeting, as well as improving

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