Renegotiating the World Order

Phillip Y. Lipscy is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, California and the Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His fields of research include international relations, international organizations, international and comparative political economy, and the politics of East Asia, particularly Japan. Lipscy obtained his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, Massachusetts and his M.A. in international policy studies and B.A. in economics and political science at Stanford University, California.

• 1. Introduction; 2. A theory of institutional change; 3. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; 4. Japan in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; 5. INTELSAT; 6. ICANN; 7. The League of Nations and the United Nations Security Council; 8. Policy area discipline: development institutions and regional integration projects; 9. China-Taiwan competition over international organizations: a placebo test; 10. Conclusion.

'Phillip Y. Lipscy shows, using rationalist theory, that variation in competition among international institutions explains variation in their willingness to undergo fundamental institutional change. Renegotiating the World Order is a theoretically innovative and empirically impressive book on an important topic.' Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University, New Jersey