This Article presents the case for revising the rules governing withdrawals from human rights treaties that explicitly allow for denunciation. Once a rarity, withdrawals (and threats of withdrawal) from global and regional human rights treaties have been on the rise across the globe. Standard rules of international law address these withdrawals by giving unfettered powers to executive organs of the state, only limited by notification requirements.

Why does issue linkage gain support from some domestic groups, not others? Al- though governments have long used economic tools to promote environmental and climate goals internationally, we know relatively little about when such linkage gains support or elicits backlash from environmental activists. Based on the premise that ac- tivists face severe commitment problems during linkage processes, I argue that activists’ positions on linkage vary by their ties to intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Historically deepening ‘interaction capacity’ – or inter-polity connectivity – has formed a crucial pre-condition for the emergence of a truly global politics. Who drove increases in interaction capacity, how did they do so, and for what purposes? This paper contends that IR lacks a convincing answer to these questions and responds by theorising the role of private infrastructure builders in the making of a global international system.

Remittances, the repatriated earnings of emigrant workers, have risen spectacularly in recent decades. They are a crucial lifeline for the households that receive them and one of the largest sources of capital for developing economies, outstripping both aid and foreign direct investment. The book Money Flows studies how remittances shape the relationship between remittance recipients and the authorities in migrant-sending countries by providing a comprehensive study of the political effects of remittances on the attitudes of their recipients.

Scholarship on reputations in IR has thus far left out one of the most striking features of
human psychology: identity. Categorizing others as either “us” or “them” is an automatic
and pervasive process that has significant implications for how reputations are generated and
maintained. We provide a theoretical framework—based on social identity theory—to explain
how ingroup bias affects both how we perceive other actors’ “type” and estimate their likely
behavior; in short, their reputations. Empirically, we provide two contributions. First, we

Paper co authored with Ruofan Ma, Ph.D. candidate at Harvard.

This project brings together historians and International Relations scholars to describe and compare how interpolity relations worked in different regions of the world before or during the early phases of European imperialism. Our aim is to investigate the wide spectrum of interpolity relations that existed globally prior to Europeans imposing their own principles, and to comprehend the distinct legal and diplomatic practices of non-European polities in their own contexts.