Samuel Barkin
Phone: 617.287.7489
Biography
J. Samuel Barkin is Professor of Global Governance in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research focuses on international relations theory and international organization, with particular attention to global environmental politics, international monetary politics, theories of sovereignty, and constructivist theory and epistemology. He received his PhD and MPhil in political science from Columbia University, and MA and BA in political science from the University of Toronto. Before coming to UMass Boston he taught, among other places, at the University of Florida, Brown University, and Wellesley College.
Area of Expertise
International relations theory and international organization, with particular attention to global environmental politics, international monetary politics, theories of sovereignty, and constructivist theory and epistemology.
Degrees
PhD, Columbia University (political science)
Professional Publications & Contributions
- International Organization: Theories and Institutions, 3rd edition (Palgrave, 2023).
- 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).
- 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).
Additional Information
He has written or edited ten books on international relations theory, most recently International Organization: Theories and InstitutionsI, 3rd ed., and The Sovereignty Cartel. His work has also been published in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The American Journal of International Law, The European Journal of International Relations, 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.