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The origins of alliances

Stephen M. Walt
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The article was published on 1987-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1604 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: International studies & International relations.

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International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

Martha Gail Finnemore, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1998 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that norms evolve in a three-stage "life cycle" of emergence, cascades, and internalization, and that each stage is governed by different motives, mechanisms, and behavioral logics.
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Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics

Alexander Wendt
- 01 Mar 1992 - 
TL;DR: The debate between realists and liberals has reemerged as an axis of contention in international relations theory as mentioned in this paper, and the debate is more concerned today with the extent to which state action is influenced by "structure" versus "process" and institutions.
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Rationalist explanations for war

James D. Fearon
- 01 Jun 1995 - 
TL;DR: The authors show that there will exist negotiated settlements that rational states would mutually prefer to a risky and costly fight under very broad conditions, under the assumption that states have both private information about capabilities and resolve and the incentive to misrepresent it.
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Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics

Andrew Moravcsik
- 01 Sep 1997 - 
TL;DR: The authors reformulates liberal international relations (IR) theory in a nonideological and nonutopian form appropriate to empirical social science and demonstrates that the existence of a coherent liberal theory has significant theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications.
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The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders

James G. March, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1998 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that the tendency of students of international political order to emphasize efficient histories and consequential bases for action leads them to underestimate the significance of rule-and identity-based action and inefficient histories.