Jennifer Sterling-Folker

Biography

Selected publications

• Editor, Making Sense of International Relations Theory, second edition.
• Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy: Explaining U.S. International Monetary Policy-Making After Bretton Woods.

• “All Hail to the Chief: Liberal IR Theory in the New World Order.” International Studies Perspective, vol. 16, no. 1 : 40-49. Contribution to a special symposium on "Diversity in IR Theory."
• “A Disagreeable Dinner Guest? Waltz and the Study of Global Governance.” Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 49, no. 3 : 530-534. Prepared for inclusion in a special issue, “Waltz Today: Reflections on the Legacy of Kenneth N. Waltz.”
• “The Emperor Wore Cowboy Boots.” International Studies Perspective, vol. 9, no. 3 : 319-330.
• “Lamarckian With a Vengeance: Human Nature and American International Relations Theory.” Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 9, no. 3 : 227-246.
• “Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide.” Co-author with Rosemary E. Shinko. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Special Issue, vol.33, no. 3, : 637-664. Reprinted in Power in World Politics, editors Felix Berenskoetter and M. J. Williams.
• "Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading." International Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1 : 73-97.
• "Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1 : 97-119.
• "Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 1 : 1-25.

• “Be Careful What You Wish For: Positivism and the Desire for Relevance in the American Study of IR.” In What’s the Point of International Relations?, Rorden Wilkinson, Jan Selby, and Synne Dyvik, eds..
• “Disciplining Human Nature: The Evolution of American Social Scientific Theorizing.” Co-author with Jason Charrette. In Man, Agency, and Beyond: The Evolution of Human Nature in International Relations, Daniel Jacobi and Annette Freyberg-Inan, eds..
• “Realism.” Co-author with Jason Charrette. In International Organization and Global Governance, Thomas G. Weiss & Rorden Wilkinson, eds..
• “Constructivism.” Co-author with Dina Badie. In The Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy, Steven Hook and Christopher Jones, eds..
• “Neoliberalism.” In International Relations Theory: Discipline and Diversity, Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, eds.,.
• "Realist Theorizing as Tradition: Forward Is As Forward Does.” In Rethinking Realism in International Relations: Between Tradition and Innovation, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Patrick James, and Ewan Harrison, eds..
• “Neoclassical Realism and Identity: Peril Despite Profit Across the Taiwan Straits.” In Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, Steven Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey Taliaferro, eds..
• "Realist Global Governance: Revisiting Cave! hic dragones and Beyond." In World Orders and Rule Systems, Contending Perspectives on Global Governance, Matthew Hoffmann and Alice Ba, eds..
• "Conflict and the Nation-State: Magical Mirrors of Muggles and Refracted Images." Co-authored with Brian Folker. In Harry Potter in International Relations, Daniel Nexon and Iver B. Neumman, eds..
• "Evolutionary Tendencies in Realist and Liberal Theory". In Evolutionary Interpretations of World Politics, ed. William R. Thompson.
• "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: ‘Assertive Multilateralism’ in Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy-Making." In After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World, ed. James M. Scott..