J. Samuel Barkin (born 1965) is a Canadian political scientist and a professor of

global governance Global governance (or world governance) refers to institutions that coordinate the behavior of transnationality, transnational actors, facilitate cooperation, resolve disputes, and alleviate collective action problems. Global governance broadly ...

and

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at the

University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a Public university, public US-based research university. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Ma ...

Academic career

After receiving his BA and MA from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

, Barkin got his

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and PhD from

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. In a 2003 article published in ''

International Studies Review The ''International Studies Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. Current editors-in-chief are Sumit Ganguly and Hussein Banai (Indiana Un ...

'', Barkin created a

international relations theory International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspective. It seeks to explain behaviors and outcomes in international politics. The three most prominent School of thought, schools of thought are ...

called ' realist constructivism', which combined realism and

constructivism Constructivism may refer to: Art and architecture * Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes * Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in the Soviet Union in t ...

, and argued that his new theory can "study the relationship between

normative Normativity is the phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good, desirable, or permissible, and others as bad, undesirable, or impermissible. A Norm (philosophy), norm in this sense means a standard for evaluatin ...

structures, the carriers of political morality, and uses of power" in ways existing approaches do not. In 2004, this journal launched a special issue to discuss this new theory.

Publications

Monographs

* ''The Sovereignty Cartel'' (Cambridge University Press, 2021) * ''International Organization: Theories and Institutions'', 2nd edition (Palgrave, 2013) * ''Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010) * ''Social Construction and the Logic of Money: Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership'' (SUNY Press, 2003)

Co-authored books

* ''International Relations’ Last Synthesis? Decoupling Constructivisms and Critical Approaches'', with Laura Sjoberg (Oxford University Press, 2019) * ''Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Capacity to Promote Sustainability'', with Elizabeth DeSombre (MIT Press, 2013) * ''Fish'', with Elizabeth DeSombre (Polity Press, 2011)

Co-edited volumes

* ''Interpretive Quantification: Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR'', with Laura Sjoberg (University of Michigan Press, 2017) * ''Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources'', with George Shambaugh. (SUNY Press, 1999)

References

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