UMass Boston

International relations theory and international organization, with particular attention to global environmental politics, international monetary politics, theories of sovereignty, and constructivist theory 

PhD, Columbia University

• The Sovereignty Cartel (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• International Relations’ Last Synthesis? Decoupling Constructivisms and Critical Approaches, co-authored with Laura Sjoberg (Oxford University Press, 2019).
• Interpretive Quantification: Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR, co-edited with Laura Sjoberg (University of Michigan Press, 2017).
• Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Capacity to Promote Sustainability, co-authored with Elizabeth DeSombre (MIT Press, 2013).
• International Organization: Theories and Institutions, 2nd edition (Palgrave, 2013).
• Fish, co-authored with Elizabeth DeSombre (Polity Press, 2011).
• 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).
• Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources, co-editor with George Shambaugh. (SUNY Press, 1999).

Curriculum Vitae

J. Samuel Barkin, professor of global governance and human security, received his PhD and MPhil in political science from Columbia University, and MA and BA in political science from the University of Toronto.

His work has been published in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance, Millennium, and Environmental Politics, among other journals, as well as in numerous edited volumes.