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"International Politics and Institutions in Time features pioneering international relations (IR) scholars exploring the contributions that historical institutionalism offers their field. They set the agenda for explorations of a tradition whose promise looms large for understanding how states in the twenty-first century manage an international system that was partly designed for a different era. Orfeo Fioretos situates the origins and evolution of historical institutionalism within IR. Stephen D. Krasner discusses the evolution of institutions associated with state sovereignty, and Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore examine how international institutions mitigate the absence of a global state. G. John Ikenberry analyzes how institutions shape the rise and fall of global orders, while Joseph Jupille, Walter Mattli, and Duncan Snidal discuss how states choose among established institutional alternatives. Abraham Newman explores mechanisms that reproduce and at times undermine institutions of global regulatory cooperation, and Tine Hanrieder and Michael Zürn look at mechanisms shaping global health governance. Kathryn Sikkink revisits understandings of the origins of the global human rights regime; Eric Helleiner the foundations of the Bretton Woods system; and Karen J. Alter the proliferation of international courts. Etel Solingen and Wilfred Wan demonstrate the effects of path-dependence in shaping international security strategies and cooperation; Manuela Moschella and Catherine Weaver the effects for global economic cooperation; Judith Goldstein and Robert Gulotty for the international trade regime; and Steven Bernstein and Hamish van der Ven for international environmental cooperation. Robert O. Keohane concludes the volume with a vigorous assessment of historical institutional research in IR." (4ème de couv.).