The Dual World Polity: Fragmentation and Integration in the Network of Intergovernmental Organizations

Global Energy Governance: Trade, Infrastructure, and the Diffusion of International Organizations

“…First, while the literature on the diffusion of international organizations and international institutions is large, little attention has been paid to their design (Elkins et al 2006;Beckfield 2008;Baccini and Dür 2012). Our study showed that in explaining the diffusion of IGOs, the design should be taken into account both theoretically and empirically.…”

Predicting the trajectory of the evolving international cyber regime: Simulating the growth of a social network

“…Thus, it is not surprising to find that increasing use has been made of SNA and network-oriented explanations of international phenomena in recent years. Among the substantive issues considered have been alliance formation (Cranmer et al, 2012a,b;Warren, 2010), international trade and investment (Hafner-Burton et al, 2009;Jung and Lake, 2011;Kim and Shin, 2002;Leblang, 2010;Manger et al, 2012), economic sanctions (Cranmer et al, 2014), intergovernmental organization networks (Beckfield, 2008;Dorussen and Ward, 2008;EilstrupSangiovanni and Jones, 2008;Hafner-Burton and Montgomery, 2006), terrorist networks (Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and Jones, 2008;Everton, 2012;Kahler, 2009aKahler, , 2009b, human rights norms (Lake and Wong, 2009;Stein, 2009), policy diffusion (Cao, 2010), international conflicts (Faber, 1987;Kim and Barnett, 2007;Maoz, 2006Maoz, , 2009Maoz, , 2011, collective action problems (Scholz et al, 2008;Siegel, 2009), world systems theory (Chase-Dunn and Jorgenson, 2003), and democratic peace theory (Pevehouse and Russett, 2006).…”

The regionalization of intergovernmental organization networks: A non-linear process

“…A recurring question among contemporary scholars of international relations is the extent to which the world polity is becoming more regionalized Meyer et al, 1997;Lake and Morgan, 1997;Mattli, 1999;Beckfield, 2008Beckfield, , 2010. Regionalization theorists (Lake and Morgan, 1997;Katzenstein, 1996Katzenstein, , 2005Duina, 2007) argue that state activities are increasingly focused on political economies based on transnational regions.…”

“…Much of the evidence of regionalization is drawn from the study of IGOs (Avant et al, 2010;Boli and Thomas, 1997;Meyer et al, 1997;Katzenstein, 1996Katzenstein, , 2005Duina, 2007;Beckfield, 2008Beckfield, , 2010. Implicit in the use of IGOs as the unit of analysis is the belief that states' behavior in the international arena can best be understood by looking at the behavior of the organizations of which the states are members and at the relationships these organizations form with each other (Avant et al, 2010;Ingram and Torfason, 2010).…”

“…Before providing further details about our methodology, we articulate the empirical implications of regionalization and describe the data we use for the analysis. Beckfield (2008Beckfield ( , 2010 has provided perhaps the most exhaustive network account of how the world polity is becoming more regionalized. In his analysis of the evolution of the relationships between IGOs and between member states, Beckfield discovered that while states have increasingly become more connected over time since the beginning of the twentieth century, IGOs have become more selective.…”