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PConstructing the World PolityEssays on internationalinstitutionalization

John Gerard Ruggie

London and New York

Contents

Foreword ixPreface and acknowledgements xi

Introduction: What makes the world hang together?Neo-utilitarianism and the social constructivist challenge 1

Part I International organization:

"I wouldn't start from here if I were you" 41

1 The new institutionalism in international relations 45

2 Embedded liberalism and the postwar economic regimes 62

3 Epistemology, ontology, and the study of international regimes 85

4 Multilateralism at century's end 102

Part II The system of states: problematizing Westphalia 131

5 Political structure and dynamic density 137

6 Social time and ecodemographic contexts 155

7 Territoriality at millennium's end 172

Part III The question of agency: making history in the new era 199

8 Interests, identity, and American foreign policy 203

9 NATO and the transatlantic security community 229

10 UN forces: whither—or whether? 240

Notes 256Publications by John Gerard Ruggie 271References 275Index 302