Key Publications
Special Responsibilities: Global problems and American power, 2012, Bukovansky, Mlada; Clark, Ian; Eckersley, Robyn; Price, Richard; Reus-Smit, Christian; Wheeler, Nicholas J., Cambridge UP
Negotiating Anglo-America: Australia, Canada, and the United States, Pauly, Louis W.; Reus-Smit, Christian, 2012, in Peter J. KATZENSTEIN (ed.), Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational Identities Beyond West and East, Abingdon/London/New York, Routledge,, 127-151
International Relations, Irrelevant? don’t blame theory, 2012, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2012, 40, 3, 525–540
Obligation through Practice, International Theory, 2011, 3, 2, 339–347
On Rights and Institutions’, in Charles Beitz and Robert Goodin, Global Basic Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
'Reuniting Ethics and Social Science: The Oxford Handbook of International Relations', Ethics & International Affairs, 22(3) 2008: 261–71 (co-authored with Duncan Snidal).
'Reading History Through Constructivist Eyes', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 37(2) 2008: 395–414.
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 (co-edited with Duncan Snidal).
'Special Issue: Resolving International Crises of Legitimacy', International Politics, 44(2–3) 2007 (co-edited with Ian Clark).
'Liberal Hierarchy and the Licence to Use Force', Review of International Studies, 31(SI) 2005: 71–92.
Theories of International Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, 2005, 2009 (co-authored with Scott Burchill, Jack Donnelly, Richard Devetak, Andrew Linklater, Terry Nardin, Matthew Paterson and Jacqui True).
American Power and World Order. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 2004.
The Politics of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (editor).
'Human Rights and the Social Construction of Sovereignty', Review of International Studies, 27(4) 2001: 519–38 (awarded the BISA Prize).
The Moral Purpose of the State: Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.