Ian Johnstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1233019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Johnstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnstone |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTONE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Global Governance in an Era of Pluralism
As the range of actors, issues and levels of negotiation at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow demonstrates, the defining feature of global governance today is pluralism. Geopolitics, including swings in US global leadership and surging US–China competition, are part of the picture, but do not adequately explain the complexity of contemporary multilateralism. Deeper, systemic forces are at work – the birth pains of a more plural global system. This art…
Status as a Reward
Rewarding in International Law foregrounds a topic that has been in the compliance literature for years but, as Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek point out, tends to get treated as the mirror opposite of penalizing and therefore of little distinct analytical significance. In this essay, I seek to engage with their argument not by way of critique but rather to highlight some gaps and build on their insights. I introduce the notion of “status” as a r…
Louis Sohn’s Legacy
Louis Sohn was an émigré scholar who fled Poland for the USA in 1939, two weeks before the Nazis invaded. His most widely known work is World Peace through World Law, co-written with Grenville Clark, a vision for a reconstructed United Nations. Writing at a time when political realism was ascendant in the USA, Sohn was labeled an ‘idealist’. Yet a strain of pragmatism also runs through his scholarship, leading many to praise him as one of the arc…
Condoning the Use of Force: The UN Security Council as Interpreter of the Jus ad Bellum
Monica Hakimi's article probes the legal significance of an interesting phenomenon: the UN Security Council condoning the use of force, as opposed to authorizing it. She offers an innovative perspective on this little-studied dimension of how the Council contributes to the development of jus ad bellum . While I applaud much in the article, I question her characterization of what the Council is condoning in the cases she reviews. She claims these …
Democracy Promotion
This chapter examines the extent to which international organizations (IOs) engage in democracy promotion. It finds that democratic norms are being articulated and acted upon by IOs. As evidence, it looks to the development of democracy's normative roots as well as the following operational activities: electoral assistance, the good governance agenda of development programs, and peace-building. It argues that these activities are both rooted in a…
The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations (IOs) in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of IOs. This book gives an overview of the world of IOs today. It emphasizes both the practical aspects of their organization and…
Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
Managing Consent in Contemporary Peacekeeping Operations
Consent to UN peacekeeping has faced powerful challenges. Host governments have either called for premature withdrawal of missions or so obstructed operations that fulfilling mandates became almost impossible. This article argues that strategies for managing deteriorating consent can be devised from relational contract theory. That theory envisages peace agreements as embodying a dynamic set of relationships among multiple actors, not only the si…
Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional un Operations in Cambodia and el Salvador
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do d…
Introduction – The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword
(2008). Introduction – The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword? International Peacekeeping: Vol. 15, The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword?, pp. 1-17
Legislation and Adjudication in the UN Security Council: Bringing Down the Deliberative Deficit
Critiques of decision making in international organizations are often framed in terms of the democratic deficit. Leveled against the United Nations Security Council, the charge has become more pointed in light of recent quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial acts—most notably the adoption of Resolutions 1373 and 1540 on the financing of terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, respectively, and the Resolution 1267 sanctions regime, …
Power in Global Governance
This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms…
The Role of the UN Secretary-General: The Power of Persuasion Based on Law
In an address to General Assembly on 12 September 2002, delivered fifteen minutes before President Bush's statement on Iraq, secretary-general (SG) made it clear that he believed new military action against Iraq should occur only on basis of a new Security Council (SC) resolution. Without stating explicitly that such authorization was necessary, he suggested that respect for international and unique legitimacy provided by UN required it. He added…
Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional U.N. Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador
Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action
Legislation and Adjudication in the UN Security Council: Bringing Down the Deliberative Deficit
Critiques of decision making in international organizations are often framed in terms of the democratic deficit. Leveled against the United Nations Security Council, the charge has become more pointed in light of recent quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial acts—most notably the adoption of Resolutions 1373 and 1540 on the financing of terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, respectively, and the Resolution 1267 sanctions regime, …
Managing Consent in Contemporary Peacekeeping Operations
Consent to UN peacekeeping has faced powerful challenges. Host governments have either called for premature withdrawal of missions or so obstructed operations that fulfilling mandates became almost impossible. This article argues that strategies for managing deteriorating consent can be devised from relational contract theory. That theory envisages peace agreements as embodying a dynamic set of relationships among multiple actors, not only the si…
The Role of the UN Secretary-General: The Power of Persuasion Based on Law
In an address to General Assembly on 12 September 2002, delivered fifteen minutes before President Bush's statement on Iraq, secretary-general (SG) made it clear that he believed new military action against Iraq should occur only on basis of a new Security Council (SC) resolution. Without stating explicitly that such authorization was necessary, he suggested that respect for international and unique legitimacy provided by UN required it. He added…
Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional U.N. Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador
Introduction – The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword
(2008). Introduction – The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword? International Peacekeeping: Vol. 15, The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword?, pp. 1-17
Aftermath of the Gulf War: An Assessment of UN Action
Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional U.N. Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador
The Role of the UN Secretary-General: The Power of Persuasion Based on Law
In an address to General Assembly on 12 September 2002, delivered fifteen minutes before President Bush's statement on Iraq, secretary-general (SG) made it clear that he believed new military action against Iraq should occur only on basis of a new Security Council (SC) resolution. Without stating explicitly that such authorization was necessary, he suggested that respect for international and unique legitimacy provided by UN required it. He added…
Power in Global Governance
This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms…
Introduction – The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword
(2008). Introduction – The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword? International Peacekeeping: Vol. 15, The US Role in Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword?, pp. 1-17
Legislation and Adjudication in the UN Security Council: Bringing Down the Deliberative Deficit
Critiques of decision making in international organizations are often framed in terms of the democratic deficit. Leveled against the United Nations Security Council, the charge has become more pointed in light of recent quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial acts—most notably the adoption of Resolutions 1373 and 1540 on the financing of terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, respectively, and the Resolution 1267 sanctions regime, …
Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional un Operations in Cambodia and el Salvador
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy
Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do d…
Managing Consent in Contemporary Peacekeeping Operations
Consent to UN peacekeeping has faced powerful challenges. Host governments have either called for premature withdrawal of missions or so obstructed operations that fulfilling mandates became almost impossible. This article argues that strategies for managing deteriorating consent can be devised from relational contract theory. That theory envisages peace agreements as embodying a dynamic set of relationships among multiple actors, not only the si…
The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations (IOs) in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of IOs. This book gives an overview of the world of IOs today. It emphasizes both the practical aspects of their organization and…
Oxford Handbook of International Organizations
Democracy Promotion
This chapter examines the extent to which international organizations (IOs) engage in democracy promotion. It finds that democratic norms are being articulated and acted upon by IOs. As evidence, it looks to the development of democracy's normative roots as well as the following operational activities: electoral assistance, the good governance agenda of development programs, and peace-building. It argues that these activities are both rooted in a…
Condoning the Use of Force: The UN Security Council as Interpreter of the Jus ad Bellum
Monica Hakimi's article probes the legal significance of an interesting phenomenon: the UN Security Council condoning the use of force, as opposed to authorizing it. She offers an innovative perspective on this little-studied dimension of how the Council contributes to the development of jus ad bellum . While I applaud much in the article, I question her characterization of what the Council is condoning in the cases she reviews. She claims these …
Louis Sohn’s Legacy
Louis Sohn was an émigré scholar who fled Poland for the USA in 1939, two weeks before the Nazis invaded. His most widely known work is World Peace through World Law, co-written with Grenville Clark, a vision for a reconstructed United Nations. Writing at a time when political realism was ascendant in the USA, Sohn was labeled an ‘idealist’. Yet a strain of pragmatism also runs through his scholarship, leading many to praise him as one of the arc…
Status as a Reward
Rewarding in International Law foregrounds a topic that has been in the compliance literature for years but, as Anne van Aaken and Betül Simsek point out, tends to get treated as the mirror opposite of penalizing and therefore of little distinct analytical significance. In this essay, I seek to engage with their argument not by way of critique but rather to highlight some gaps and build on their insights. I introduce the notion of “status” as a r…
Global Governance in an Era of Pluralism
As the range of actors, issues and levels of negotiation at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow demonstrates, the defining feature of global governance today is pluralism. Geopolitics, including swings in US global leadership and surging US–China competition, are part of the picture, but do not adequately explain the complexity of contemporary multilateralism. Deeper, systemic forces are at work – the birth pains of a more plural global system. This art…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · International Law and Human Rights (7 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)