Part I. Introduction : Institutions and time in international relations -- Part II. States and institutions in time : The persistence of state sovereignty -- The rise, character, and evolution of international order -- Sequencing, layering, and feedbacks in global regulation -- Reactive sequences in global health governance -- Dynamics of institutional choice -- Global institutions without a global state -- Part III. Changes and continuities in international cooperation : International security: Critical junctures, developmental pathways, and institutional change -- The limits of institutional reform in the United States and the global trade regime -- Incremental origins of bretton woods -- Timing and sequencing in international politics: Latin america's contributions to human rights -- The evolution of international law and courts -- Bounded reform in global economic governance at the international monetary fund and the world bank -- Continuity and change in global environmental politics -- Part IV. Conclusion : Observations on the promise and pitfalls of historical institutionalism in international relations

1. International relations -- History
2. World politics -- History