Michael Barnett

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Michael N. Barnett (born 1960) is a major constructivist scholar of international relations. His research has been in the areas of international organizations, international relations theory, and Middle Eastern politics. With Emanuel Adler, he reintroduced the concept of security community to international relations. Barnett is currently the Harold Stassen Chair of International Affairs in the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1990 to 2004. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two daughters.

[edit] Books

  • Power and Global Governance Co-edited with Raymond Duvall (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics. Co-authored with Martha Finnemore (Cornell University Press, 2004)
  • "Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda." (Cornell University Press, 2002)
  • "National Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle." Co-authored with Shibley Telhami (Cornell University Press, 2002)
  • "Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order." (Columbia University Press, 1998)
  • "Security Communities." Co-edited with Emanuel Adler (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
  • "Israel in Comparative Politics: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom." Edited. (State University of New York Press, 1996)
  • "Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel." (Princeton University Press, 1992)

[edit] Selected Articles

  • "Peacebuilding: What is in a Name?" with Hunjoon Kim, Mandeline O’Donnell, and Laura Sitea. Global Governance 13 (2007)
  • Power in International Politics With Raymond Duvall. International Organization, Vol. 59 (2005)
  • "The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations." With Martha Finnemore. International Organization, Vol. 53 (1999)

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