Alexander Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University.

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Power of International OrganizationsIOs and Information TransmissionStatecraft and IOsThe United Nations and the Legitimation of ForceCase Selection and OutlineChapter 2. Coercion, Institutions, and InformationThe Politics and Costs of CoercionInstitutions and InformationCoercion through IOsTwo Pathways of Information TransmissionInstitutional Variation and the Security CouncilAlternative ArgumentsObservable Implications and Research DesignChapter 3. The Security Council in the Gulf War, 1990–1991Background and EventsChoosing (How) to InterveneSignaling Intentions to State LeadersTransmitting Policy Information to Foreign PublicsAssessing the Role of LegitimacyChapter 4. Coercive Disarmament: The Interwar YearsChanneling Power between the WarsThe Postwar HoneymoonCracks in the CoalitionThe Decline of UN InspectionsDesert Fox and Its AftermathThe Evolution of U.S. Coercive StrategyReviving Inspections: A Divided CouncilChapter 5. The Second Iraq War: Down the UN Path, 2002–2003From September 11 to IraqAppealing to the General AssemblyBack to the Council: Resolution 1441Renewed InspectionsA Second Resolution?Explaining U.S. MotivationsChapter 6. The Second Iraq War: Bypassing the Security CouncilWas It a "Unilateral" Policy?The Costs of Working through the UNSensitivity to IO ConstraintsRegional Options: Constrained Forum ShoppingInternational Reactions to Iraq 2003The International Political Costs of the WarChapter 7. Conclusion: How the Security Council MattersMultilateralism in U.S. Foreign PolicyBeyond the SuperpowerThe Security Council as a Political InstitutionAppendix: Selected Security Council ResolutionsBibliographyIndex

Thompson's books adds to the small but growing body of work addressing why powerful countries would channel foreign policies through IOs. A major strength of Channels of Power is that it pays serious attention to theory development, generating falsifiable hypotheses about state behavior and international reaction to activity at the Security Council. Channels of Power is very well written and researched and its an important contribution to the literature on international organizations and security policy.- Terrence Chapman (Political Science Quarterly)

Alexander Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University.

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Power of International OrganizationsIOs and Information TransmissionStatecraft and IOsThe United Nations and the Legitimation of ForceCase Selection and OutlineChapter 2. Coercion, Institutions, and InformationThe Politics and Costs of CoercionInstitutions and InformationCoercion through IOsTwo Pathways of Information TransmissionInstitutional Variation and the Security CouncilAlternative ArgumentsObservable Implications and Research DesignChapter 3. The Security Council in the Gulf War, 1990–1991Background and EventsChoosing (How) to InterveneSignaling Intentions to State LeadersTransmitting Policy Information to Foreign PublicsAssessing the Role of LegitimacyChapter 4. Coercive Disarmament: The Interwar YearsChanneling Power between the WarsThe Postwar HoneymoonCracks in the CoalitionThe Decline of UN InspectionsDesert Fox and Its AftermathThe Evolution of U.S. Coercive StrategyReviving Inspections: A Divided CouncilChapter 5. The Second Iraq War: Down the UN Path, 2002–2003From September 11 to IraqAppealing to the General AssemblyBack to the Council: Resolution 1441Renewed InspectionsA Second Resolution?Explaining U.S. MotivationsChapter 6. The Second Iraq War: Bypassing the Security CouncilWas It a "Unilateral" Policy?The Costs of Working through the UNSensitivity to IO ConstraintsRegional Options: Constrained Forum ShoppingInternational Reactions to Iraq 2003The International Political Costs of the WarChapter 7. Conclusion: How the Security Council MattersMultilateralism in U.S. Foreign PolicyBeyond the SuperpowerThe Security Council as a Political InstitutionAppendix: Selected Security Council ResolutionsBibliographyIndex

Thompson's books adds to the small but growing body of work addressing why powerful countries would channel foreign policies through IOs. A major strength of Channels of Power is that it pays serious attention to theory development, generating falsifiable hypotheses about state behavior and international reaction to activity at the Security Council. Channels of Power is very well written and researched and its an important contribution to the literature on international organizations and security policy.- Terrence Chapman (Political Science Quarterly)

Alexander Thompson is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University.

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Power of International OrganizationsIOs and Information TransmissionStatecraft and IOsThe United Nations and the Legitimation of ForceCase Selection and OutlineChapter 2. Coercion, Institutions, and InformationThe Politics and Costs of CoercionInstitutions and InformationCoercion through IOsTwo Pathways of Information TransmissionInstitutional Variation and the Security CouncilAlternative ArgumentsObservable Implications and Research DesignChapter 3. The Security Council in the Gulf War, 1990–1991Background and EventsChoosing (How) to InterveneSignaling Intentions to State LeadersTransmitting Policy Information to Foreign PublicsAssessing the Role of LegitimacyChapter 4. Coercive Disarmament: The Interwar YearsChanneling Power between the WarsThe Postwar HoneymoonCracks in the CoalitionThe Decline of UN InspectionsDesert Fox and Its AftermathThe Evolution of U.S. Coercive StrategyReviving Inspections: A Divided CouncilChapter 5. The Second Iraq War: Down the UN Path, 2002–2003From September 11 to IraqAppealing to the General AssemblyBack to the Council: Resolution 1441Renewed InspectionsA Second Resolution?Explaining U.S. MotivationsChapter 6. The Second Iraq War: Bypassing the Security CouncilWas It a "Unilateral" Policy?The Costs of Working through the UNSensitivity to IO ConstraintsRegional Options: Constrained Forum ShoppingInternational Reactions to Iraq 2003The International Political Costs of the WarChapter 7. Conclusion: How the Security Council MattersMultilateralism in U.S. Foreign PolicyBeyond the SuperpowerThe Security Council as a Political InstitutionAppendix: Selected Security Council ResolutionsBibliographyIndex

Thompson's books adds to the small but growing body of work addressing why powerful countries would channel foreign policies through IOs. A major strength of Channels of Power is that it pays serious attention to theory development, generating falsifiable hypotheses about state behavior and international reaction to activity at the Security Council. Channels of Power is very well written and researched and its an important contribution to the literature on international organizations and security policy.- Terrence Chapman (Political Science Quarterly)