Alison Brysk, Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy (Oxford 2009)
Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Cornell 1997)
Tim Dunne and Nicholas Wheeler, eds., Human Rights and Global Politics (Cambridge 1999). Review by William Felice available in Ethics & International Affairs 14 (2000).
David Forsythe, Human Rights in International Relations (Cambridge 2002)
Mary Ann Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Random House, 2001)
Carol C. Gould, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights (Cambridge 2004). See the review by Fiona Robinson, Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 2 (2007).
James Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights (Wiley 2007)
Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (Cambridge 2001). See the review by William Felice in Ethics & International Affairs 15, no. 1 (2001).
Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover, eds., Women, Culture, and Development (Oxford 1995)
R. J. Vincent, Human Rights in International Relations (Cambridge 1986)
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues (Harvard 2006). See the review by Clare Chambers, Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 2 (2007).
On Global GovernanceMichael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds., Power in Global Governance (Cambridge 2005)James Bohman, Democracy Across Borders: From Dêmos to Dêmoi (MIT 2007).
Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law (Oxford 2004). Review by Deen Chatterjee available in Ethics & International Affairs 19, no. 2 (2005).
Daniel H. Deudney, Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Princeton 2007). See the review by Takashi Inoguchi, Ethics & International Affairs 22, no. 3 (2008).
John Dryzek, Deliberative Global Politics: Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World (Polity 2006)
Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell 2004)
David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Stanford 1995)
Andrew Hurrell, On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society (Oxford 2007)
G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars (Princeton 2001)
Akira Iriye, Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (California 2004). Review by John Ruggie available in Ethics & International Affairs 17, no. 1 (2003)
Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (Random House 2006). See the review by Barbara Crossette, Ethics & International Affairs 21, no. 3 (2007) .
Robert O. Keohane, Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (Routledge 2002)
Andrew Kuper, Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions (Oxford 2004). Review by Eris Cavallero available in Ethics & International Affairs 19, no. 2 (2005).
Terry Nardin, Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (Princeton 1983). See the review by Robert Myers, Worldview Magazine 27, no. 3 (1984, Carnegie Council).
Thomas G. Weiss, What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (Polity 2008)
On Identity and Membership
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso 2006)
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity (Princeton 2007). See Carnegie Council Public Affairs book talk transcript.
Brian Barry, Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism (Harvard 2002). Review by P. E. Digeser available in Ethics & International Affairs 16, no. 1 (2002).
Ronald Beiner, ed., Theorizing Citizenship (SUNY 2007)
Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens (Cambridge 2004)
Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism (Oxford 2006)
Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro, and Danilo Petranovic, eds., Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances (Cambridge 2007)
Linda Bosniak, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (Princeton 2006)
Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Harvard 1998)
Joseph H. Carens, Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness (Oxford 2000)
Emma Haddad, The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns (Cambridge 2008)
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford 2005)
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (Oxford 2007).
Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community (South Carolina 1998). Review by Chris Brown available in Ethics & International Affairs 12 (1998).
Robert McKim and Jeff McMahan, eds., The Morality of Nationalism (Oxford 1997)
David Miller, On Nationality (Oxford 1995). Review by Michael J. Green available in Ethics & International Affairs 10 (1996).
Martha Nussbaum, The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future (Harvard 2007). See Carnegie Council Public Affairs book talk transcript and audio.
Susan Moller Okin, Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (Princeton 1999)
Yael Tamir, Liberal Nationalism (Princeton 1993). Review by Chris Brown available in Ethics & International Affairs 12 (1998).