PUBLICATIONS: IAN HURD

Books

  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice. Cambridge University Press, 5th ed. 2024. Cambridge University Press

  • How to Do Things with International Law. Princeton University Press, 2017. Princeton University Press

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. Oxford University Press, 2016. Edited with Jacob Katz Cogan and Ian Johnstone. Oxford University Press

  • The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority. Routledge, 2008. Edited with Bruce Cronin.

  • After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the UN Security Council. Princeton University Press, 2008. Chinese translation, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2018.

Journal Articles

  • “World Order from Birmingham Jail,” Ethics and International Affairs, forthcoming 2024.

  • “The Problem with the Problem of Order,” Ethics and International Affairs, forthcoming 2024.

  • “The Science of World Order,” International Politics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00579-4.

  • “The Case Against International Cooperation,” International Theory, 2022. PDF

  • “‘If I Had A Rocket Launcher,’: Self-Defense and Forever War in International Law,” Houston Law Review, v.56, n. 2, 2019.

  • “Empire of International Legalism,” Ethics and International Affairs, 2018. PDF

  • “Legitimacy and Contestation in Global Governance: Revisiting the Folk Theory of International Institutions,” Review of International Organizations, 2018.

  • “Targeted Killing in International Relations Theory: Recursive Politics of Technology, Law, and Practice,” Contemporary Security Policy, 2017. PDF

  • “The Permissive Power of the Ban on War,” European Journal of International Security v.2, n.1, 2017. PDF

  • “How to Get Away with Cholera: The UN, Haiti, and International Law,” with Mara Pillinger and Michael Barnett, Perspectives on Politics v.14, n.1, 2016. PDF

  • “Enchanted and Disenchanted International Law,” Global Policy v.7, n.1, 2016. PDF

  • “The International Rule of Law and the Domestic Analogy,” Global Constitutionalism v.4, n.3, 2015: 365-395. PDF

  • “Three Models of the International Rule of Law/Tres Modelos de Imperio Internacional de la Ley,” Revisto Filosofia Eidos, n.23, 2015. PDF

  • “The International Rule of Law: Law and the Limit of Politics,” Ethics and International Affairs 28, no.1, 2014. PDF

  • “The UN Security Council and the International Rule of Law,” Chinese Journal of International Politics v.7, n.3, 2014. PDF

    • 联合国安理会与国际法治 in Chinese PDF

  • “Almost Saving Whales: The Ambiguity of Success at the International Whaling Commission,” Ethics and International Affairs, 2012. PDF

  • “Choices and Methods in the Study of International Organizations,” Journal of International Organization Studies v.2, n.2, 2011. PDF

  • “Law and the Practice of Diplomacy,” International Journal v.66, no.3, 2011. PDF

  • “Is Humanitarian Intervention Legal? The Rule of Law in an Incoherent World," Ethics and International Affairs v.25, no.3, 2011. PDF

  • “Myths of Membership: The Politics of Legitimation in UN Security Council Reform,” Global Governance, 2008, v.14, n.2. PDF

  • “Breaking and Making Norms: American Revisionism and Crises of Legitimacy,” International Politics, 2007, v.44:194-213. PDF

  • “The Strategic Use of Liberal Internationalism: Libya and the UN Sanctions, 1992-2003,” International Organization, Summer, v. 59, 3, 2005. PDF

  • “Of Words and Wars: The Security Council’s Hard Life Among the Great Powers,” Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, v.5, n.1, Winter/Spring 2004. PDF

  • “Labor Standards through International Organizations: The Global Compact in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Corporate Citizenship, v.11, July 2003. PDF

  • “Legitimacy, Power, and the Symbolic Life of the Security Council,” Global Governance, v.8, n.1, 2002: 35-51. PDF

  • “Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics,” International Organization, v.53, n.2, 1999. PDF

 

Book Chapters

  • “Authority and International Courts: A Comment on Content Independent Social Science,” in The Authority of International Courts in a Complex World Karen Alter, Laurence Helfer, and Mikael Madsen eds. Oxford University Press, 2018.

  • “UN Security Council,” in Alexandra Gheciu and William Wohlforth eds. Oxford Handbook of International Security Oxford University Press, 2017.

  • “Permissive Law on the International Use of Force,” American Society of International Law Proceedings, v.110, 2016. PDF

  • “What is the International Rule of Law?” in Javier Solana and Angel Saz-Carranza eds. The Global Context: How Politics, Investment, and Institutions Impact European Businesses. ESADE: Barcelona, 2015. PDF

  • “Diplomacy and the Politics of International Law,” in Ole Jacob Sending, Vincent Pouliot, and Iver Neumann eds. Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics Cambridge University Press, 2015. PDF

  • “Torture and the Politics of Legitimation in International Law,” in The Legitimacy of Human Rights Regimes: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives, Andreas Føllesdal, Johan Karl Schaffer, and Geir Ulfstein eds. Cambridge University Press, 2013. PDF

  • “The Selectively Expansive UN Security Council: Domestic and International Threats to Peace and Security,” Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, v. 106, 2013. PDF

  • “United Nations,” in Richard Devetak et al. eds. Introduction to International Relations, 2nd. ed. Cambridge University Press, 2011. PDF

  • “Constructivism,” in Duncan Snidal and Christian Reus-Smit eds. Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Oxford University Press, 2008. PDF

  • “Theories and Tests of International Authority,” in Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd eds. The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority. Routledge, 2008. PDF

  • “Introduction” with Bruce Cronin in Cronin and Hurd eds. The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority. Routledge, 2008.

  • “Conclusion,” with Bruce Cronin in Cronin and Hurd eds. The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority. Routledge, 2008

  • “Unrealizable Expectations: Collective Security, the UN Charter, and Iraq,” in Harvey Starr ed. Approaches, Levels, and Methods of Analysis in International Politics: Crossing Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. PDF

  • “Security Council Reform: Informal Membership and Practice,” in Bruce Russett ed., The Once and Future Security Council (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997).

 

Other Publications, Working Papers, Interviews, and Commentary

  • “At the Olympics, Must it Be Men Versus Women?” Chicago Tribune, July 25 2024, with Sadie Barlow.

  • “The Swiss Tax Code and Global Machinery Bring You the Olympics,” Chicago Tribune, July 24, 2024, with Sadie Barlow.

  • “Legal Games - Political Goals,” AJIL Unbound, response to Tom Ginsburg, 2020. PDF

  • “The UN Security Council: Future Prospects for a Compromised Hegemon,” e-IR blog, Nov. 8 2016. LINK

  • “End the UN’s Legal Immunity,” The Hill, July 22, 2016. LINK

  • “Thousands Died When the UN Brought Cholera to Haiti. Here’s Why It’s Getting Off Scot-Free,” The Washington Post, March 28, 2016. LINK

  • “The Bernie Doctrine,” US News & World Report, February 29, 2016. LINK

  • Interview in Chinese Social Sciences Today on the UN Security Council in world politics, 2015. LINK

  • Guest editor for symposium on the international rule of law in Ethics and International Affairs, 2014, with Ruti Teitel, David Dyzenhus, Rosa Brooks, and Christian Reus-Smit. Reprinted in Ethics for a Connected World: The Carnegie Centennial Roundtables, 2014. LINK

  • “Comment on Richard Steinberg ‘Wanted Dead or Alive: Realism in International Law,” opiniojuris.org, September 16, 2013. LINK

  • “Does a Syrian Solution Run Through Moscow?” Al Jazeera English, September 11, 2013. LINK

  • “On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria,” opiniojuris.org, August 31, 2013, reprinted at Ethics and International Affairs blog and Centre for International Policy Studies blog. LINK

  • “Bomb Syria, Even if It is Illegal,” New York Times, August 28, 2013. LINK

  • “Is Intervention in Syria Legal? Does Obama Care?” Boston Review, August 28, 2013. LINK

  • “Saving Syria: International Law is not the Answer,” Al Jazeera English, August 28, 2013. LINK

  • “Syria in the Crosshairs,” US News and World Report, August 27, 2013. LINK

  • Book review of Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art (Cambridge University Press, 2013) in International and Comparative Law Quarterly 62(3): 771-773. PDF

  • “On Law, Science and Whales: The Case of Australia v. Japan,” The Conversation 27 June 2013, http://bit.ly/13abrsA, republished at Ethics and International Affairs blog 11 July 2013. LINK

  • “Whaling in Europe is Dependent on the Continued Willingness of Governments to Fund it at a Loss,” Europp blog, Feb. 18, 2013. LINK

  • “The Security Council in a Changing World,” ETH International Relations and Security Network, July 9, 2012. LINK

  • “Finnegans Wake and Political Science Research Methods,” Ethics and International Affairs blog, Oct. 12, 2012. LINK

  • “The Libyan Intervention in the Rearview Mirror,” Telos, March 31 2011, also available in French. LINK

  • “By the Book: Bush’s Memoirs and the Rule of Law,” Policy Brief #10, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, 2010. PDF

  • “How not to Argue against the Crime of Aggression: A Reply to Michael Glennon,” Working Paper 10-001, Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, 2010. PDF

  • Book review of Richard Ned Lebow, A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2009) in Perspectives on Politics, 8(2), 2010. PDF

  • “Legitimacy,” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Self-Determination. Princeton University Press.

  • “Negotiation and Institutional Design: Deliberating over the UN Security Council at San Francisco 1945,” working paper published by the Dispute Resolution Research Center at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (#350, June 2006). http://www1.kellogg.northwestern.edu/wps/SelectDocument.asp?dept_id=DRRC

  • Book review of Ian Clark, Legitimacy in International Society, (Oxford University Press) in International History Review, 28(1), March 2006

  • “Reforming the United Nations,” Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights, 2005. PDF

  • “Legitimacy,” in Martin Griffiths ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics. Routledge, 2005.

  • “Anarchy,” in Martin Griffiths ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics. Routledge, 2005.

  • “Authority,” in Martin Griffiths ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics. Routledge, 2005.

  • “Stayin’ Alive/Too Legit to Quit: A Response to Michael J. Glennon,” Foreign Affairs, July/Aug 2003.

  • “Why Iraq, not the US, Should Prosecute Hussein’s Pals,” Chicago Tribune, May 19, 2003.

  • “The Unspoken Meanings of Symbols,” Chicago Tribune, April 10, 2003.

  • “The New Iraq Must be Independent from US,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2003.

  • Book Review of Nicholas N. Kittrie’s Rebels with a Cause (Westview Press, 2000), in Canadian Journal of Political Science, Dec. 2000.