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Thomas J. Biersteker

Political Science

#1009

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#1243

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#534

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Political Science

Thomas J. Biersteker's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and a notable constructivism scholar. He became the first Curt Gasteyger Professor of International Security at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007, where he is also a member of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding. He is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Social Science Research Council and is on the Editorial Board of Stability: International Journal of Security and Development. His more recent work included advising the United Nations’ Secretariat and the governments of Switzerland, Sweden and Germany on the design of targeted sanctions. In 2020, he was awarded the University of Chicago Professional Achievement Award.

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Thomas J. Biersteker's Published Works

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The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance: Conclusions and directions (2002) (379)
State sovereignty as social construct: Frontmatter (1996) (288)
Power in Global Governance (2005) (214)
State sovereignty as social construct: The social construction of state sovereignty (1996) (169)
The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance: The emergence of private authority in the international system (2002) (165)
The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a Future Archeologist of International Savoir Faire (1984) (139)
Reducing the Role of the State in the Economy: A Conceptual Exploration of IMF and World Bank Prescriptions (1990) (117)
Beyond the published discipline: Toward a critical pedagogy of international studies (2014) (100)
Distortion or development?: Contending perspectives on the multinational corporation (1979) (94)
State, Sovereignty, and Territory (2002) (92)
Multinationals, the State and Control of the Nigerian Economy (1987) (87)
Global change, regional response: The “triumph” of liberal economic ideas in the developing world (1995) (85)
Governance Without Government: The “triumph” of neoclassical economics in the developing world: policy convergence and bases of governance in the international economic order (1992) (80)
Critical Reflections on Post-Positivism in International Relations (1989) (78)
Argument Without End: In Search Of Answers To The Vietnam Tragedy (1999) (76)
The Rebordering of North America: Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context (2014) (73)
The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions (2008) (66)
Countering the financing of terrorism (2008) (64)
Targeted Sanctions: The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action (2016) (47)
The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance: “Regulation for the rest of us?” Global civil society and the privatization of transnational regulation (2002) (44)
The parochialism of hegemony: Challenges for “American” International Relations (2009) (44)
UN targeted sanctions datasets (1991–2013) (2018) (40)
The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance: CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (2002) (37)
The effectiveness of United Nations targeted sanctions (2013) (34)
Evolving Perspectives on International Political Economy: Twentieth-Century Contexts and Discontinuities (1993) (31)
The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance: Private authority as global governance (2002) (31)
Informal governance in world politics (2020) (29)
Self-reliance in theory and practice in Tanzanian trade relations (1980) (28)
Targeted Sanctions and Individual Human Rights (2010) (28)
The Illusion of State Power: Transnational Corporations and the Neutralization of Host-Country Legislation (1980) (26)
International initiatives to combat the financing of terrorism (2008) (25)
The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance: Bibliography (2002) (24)
Eroding Boundaries, Contested Terrain (1999) (23)
Globalization and the modes of operation of major institutional actors (1998) (22)
Dealing With Debt: International Financial Negotiations And Adjustment Bargaining (1993) (20)
How and when do sanctions work? The evidence (2015) (16)
International Law and International Relations: Bridging Theory and Practice (2006) (15)
Thinking about United Nations targeted sanctions (2016) (14)
EU Sanctions in Context: Three Types (2015) (14)
Prospects for the UN Peacebuilding Commission (2007) (10)
Interrelationships Between Theory and Practice in International Security Studies (2010) (10)
Counter-terrorism measures undertaken under UN Security Council auspices (2008) (8)
Globalization as a Mode of Thinking in Major Institutional Actors (2000) (8)
The impacts of United Nations targeted sanctions (2016) (7)
UN Targeted Sanctions as Signals: Naming and Shaming or Naming and Stigmatizing? (2015) (6)
State sovereignty as social construct: Reconstructing the analysis of sovereignty: concluding reflections and directions for future research (1996) (5)
The unintended consequences of United Nations targeted sanctions (2016) (5)
Designing United Nations targeted sanctions : initial findings of the Targeted Sanctions Consortium (TSC) evaluating impacts and effectiveness of UN targeted sanctions (2012) (5)
10. (Mis)Measuring Success in Countering the Financing of Terrorism (2010) (4)
The ILO’s Role in Global Governance: Limits and Potential (2019) (4)
Due Process and Targeted Sanctions : Update of the "Watson Report" (2012) (4)
Addressing challenges to targeted sanctions (2009) (4)
Rising powers and reform of the practices of international security institutions (2015) (4)
Connecting scholarly expertise to international policy practice at the United Nations 1 (2017) (3)
Exploring the Relationships between UN Sanctions and Mediation (2022) (3)
Dialectical Reflections on Transformations of Global Security during the Long Twentieth Century (2014) (3)
The parochialism of hegemony (2009) (3)
United Nations targeted sanctions and other policy tools: diplomacy, legal, use of force (2016) (3)
Introducing Global Perspectives: An Editorial Essay (2020) (3)
UN targeted sanctions: historical development and current challenges (2021) (2)
The Potential of Europe’s Sharp and Soft Power (2020) (1)
Coordination of United Nations sanctions with other actors and instruments (2016) (1)
Security Council dynamics and sanctions design (2016) (1)
UN Sanctions and Mediation: Establishing Evidence to Inform Practice (2019) (1)
SanctionsApp as expertise (and exclusionary ignorance) in a global policy setting 1 (2018) (1)
Introduction: Theorizing Private Authority (2002) (1)
Indigenisation in Nigeria: Renationalisation or Denationalisation? (1983) (1)
Implementation of United Nations targeted sanctions (2016) (1)
Global security governance (2016) (1)
An EU Agenda for Global Governance (2011) (1)
INO volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Maintaining Control: Multinational Responses to the Second Decree (1987) (0)
Global Perspectives on Security, Cooperation, International Institutions, and International Relations (2020) (0)
Types of UN Targeted Sanctions and their Effectiveness : Research Note (2014) (0)
INO volume 45 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
The World Bank (2019) (0)
INO volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
The Challenges of Institution Building - Prospects for the UN Peacebuilding Architecture (2010) (0)
Targeted Sanctions Consortium (TSC) participants (2016) (0)
International Financial Negotiations and Adjustment Bargaining: An Overview (2019) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Fronting, Commercial Consolidation, and Inequality (1987) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Dialectics of Indigenization: Stagnation and Transformation at Alternative Levels ofAnalysis (1987) (0)
INO volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. The Control of Finance and the Development of Capitalism in Nigeria (1987) (0)
INO volume 46 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
How and when do sanctions work (2015) (0)
APPENDIX A. Research Methods and Sampling of Companies of Individuals Interviewed (1987) (0)
APSR EXTERNAL REVIEWERS, 2008–2009 (2009) (0)
NEW PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (2006) (0)
UN sanctions and mediation (2019) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. The State as Collaborator: The First Indigenization Decree (1987) (0)
TSC database codebook (2016) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. The State as Initiator: The Second Indigenization Decree (1987) (0)
APPENDIX C. Microeconomic Data Gathered about the Operations of Manufacturing Firms (1987) (0)
List of cases and episodes (2016) (0)
APPENDIX B. Methodology and Codebook for Data Set Assembled on Incorporated Enterprises in Nigeria (1987) (0)
Negotiated Settlement through Sanctions Relief: Options for the Korean Peninsula (2020) (0)
APPENDIX D. Chronology of Economic Nationalism in Nigeria (1987) (0)
The Institutional “Hinge”: How the End of the Cold War Conditioned Canadian, Russian, and Swiss IR Scholarship (2020) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Assessments of Indigenization: A Critical Review of Six Theoretical Approaches (1987) (0)
UN Targeted Sanctions as Signals (2015) (0)
INO volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1989) (0)
Theory in pursuit of practice (1997) (0)
The Governance of International Organisations (2020) (0)
Regulating Foreign Investment: Europe and the U.S. to International Shocks: Japan and the U.S. Issue Linkages in Multilateral Trade Negotiations (2009) (0)
The impacts and effectiveness of UN nonproliferation sanctions: a provisional report: Iran and North Korea (2012) (0)
INO volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1993) (0)
Global governance in peril (2020) (0)
Informal governance in world politics (2020) (0)
Nigeria, 1983-1986: Reaching Agreement with the Fund (2019) (0)
INO volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1994) (0)
Privatization of Global Governance (2017) (0)

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