Every year, states negotiate, conclude, sign, and give effect to hundreds of new international
agreements. Koremenos argues that the detailed design provisions of such agreements …

Preferential trade agreements are an important feature of the global trade system. Several
questions, ranging from the rationale for preferential arrangements to their impact on …

Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon that is observed across river
basins, but one that is predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of …

International tribunals confront a “Judicial Trilemma.” More specifically the states that design,
and the judges that serve on, international courts face an interlocking series of tradeoffs …

This article introduces a Thematic Section and theorizes the multiple ways that judicializing
international relations shifts power away from national executives and legislatures toward …

The global governance of development increasingly relies on multi-stakeholder partnerships
between states, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations. This …

How does the increasingly dense network of overlapping institutions in global governance
affect the design of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)? We argue that institutional …

To understand why some international institutions have stronger dispute settlement
mechanisms (DSMs) than others, we investigate the dispute settlement provisions of nearly …

International tribunals rely on interpretation of legal texts as a crucial tool in adjudication.
What is puzzling is the wide variation we observe in treaty interpretation by international …

To explain trade policies, a large literature draws on domestic institutions. Institutions that
are more responsive to narrow-interest groups are expected to succumb to protectionist …