Twenty Years of Institutional Liberalism

Humanity’s Law. 

22 Teitel, 

Humanity’s Law,

 pp. 211−12. 

23 Kenneth N. Waltz, 

Theory of International Politics

 (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979). 

24 Carr, 

The Twenty Years’ Crisis,

 p. 179. 

25 Robert G. Gilpin, 

War and Change in World Politics

 (Cambridge: Cambridge University 

Press, 1981), p. 7. 

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26  John J. Mearsheimer, ‘Back to the Future: Instability in Europe after the Cold War’, 

International Security

, 15(1), 1990, pp. 5056; the quotation is on p. 8. 

27  Walt W. Rostow, 

The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto

 (Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press, 1960). 

28  G. John Ikenberry, 

Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the 

American World Order

 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), p. 345. 

29  Steven Pinker, 

The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined 

(New York: 

Viking, 2011). 

30 For a careful, sober and authoritative overview of climate science and the issues it generates 

for public policy, see National Academy of Sciences, 

America’s Climate Choices

, 5 vols, 

including the overview volume (Washington: National Academies Press, 2011). 

31 Martin Wolf, ‘Sinking into the Great Stagnation’, 

Financial Times

, 21 December 2011, p. 11. 

32 Although the quote may be apocryphal, Winston S. Churchill is said to have commented, 

‘Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing … after they have exhausted all 

other possibilities.’ 

33  Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., 

Power and Interdependence

, 4th edn (Boston, 

MA: Longman, 2012), p. 46. 

34  Judith N. Shklar, 

Ordinary Vices

 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University 

Press, 1984). 

Robert O. Keohane

 is Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author 

of 

After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

 (1984) and 

Power 

and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

 (2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) 

of Power and Interdependence

 (3rd edn 2001), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of 

Designing Social Inquiry

 (1994). He has served as the editor of 

International Organization

 and as 

president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. 

He won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (1989), and the Johan Skytte 

Prize in Political Science (2005). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences; he is a Corresponding 

Member of the British Academy.