Policy Analyses
“For the Game. For the World.” FIFA and Human Rights,” Corporate Responsibility Initiative Report #68, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (April 2016).
“Business and Human Rights: The Next Chapter,” Dovenschmidt Quarterly, 4 (2013).
“Kiobel and Corporate Social Responsibility: An Issues Brief,” Harvard Kennedy School, (September 4, 2012).
“Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum,”Brief Amici Curiae of Former UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie; Professor Philip Alston; and the Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law in Support of Neither Party, United States Supreme Court, No. 10-1491 (June 12, 2012).
“The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: The Legal Context and Operational Implications” (with Amy K. Lehr & Elizabeth Holland), Business Law News—California (No. 4,2012).
“The Construction of the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework: The True Confessions of a Principled Pragmatist,” European Human Rights Law Review, 2 (2011).
“Business and Human Rights: A Political Scientist’s Guide to Survival in a Domain where Lawyers and Activists Reign,” Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, 6 (November 2008).
“Treaty road not travelled,” Ethical Corporation (May 2008).
“Standards and Practices: Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights,” Ethical Corporation (October 2007).
“The Global Compact: An Extraordinary Journey,” in Claude Fussler, et al., eds., Raising the Bar: Creating Value with the UN Global Compact” (Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf, 2004).
“How to Marry Civic Politics and Private Governance, in John Ruggie, et al., eds., The Impact of Corporations on Global Governance: A Report of the Empire and Democracy Project (New York: Center on International Cooperation, NYU, and Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 2004).
“The U.N. Oil-for-Food Program: What Went Wrong—And Right?” UNA-USA Policy Brief, No. 3 (June 2004).
“Marriages of Convenience – But Marriages Nonetheless,” in Susan Stern and Elisabeth Seligman, eds., The Partnership Principle: New Forms of Governance in the 21st Century (London: Archetype, 2004).
“This Crisis of Multilateralism is Different,” The InterDependent (October 2003).
“Breaking the Loving Embrace: African Solutions for African Problems,” in Africa Economic Summit 2003: Harnessing the Power of Partnership (Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2003).
“The United States, the United Nations and the Transatlantic Rift,” Annual Lecture of the Transatlantic Programme (Florence: European University Institute, 2003).
“Trade, Sustainability and Global Governance,” Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 27:2 (2002).
“The UN: Bush’s Newest Ally?” The Nation (December 31, 2001).
“Weaving the Global Compact: Sustaining the Single Global Economic Space,” UN Chronicle, 37 (September 2000).
“Globalization, the Global Compact and Corporate Social Responsibility,” Transnational Associations, 52:6 (2000).
"The United Nations and the Collective Use of Force: Whither -- Or Whether?" International Peacekeeping, 3 (Winter 1996/7); also in Michael Pugh, ed., The UN, Peace and Force (London: Cass, 1997); also published as occasional paper by the United Nations Association of the United States of America (New York: UNA-USA, 1996).
"Consolidating the European Pillar: The Key to NATO's Future," Washington Quarterly, 20 (Winter 1997); also in Quaderni Forum [Florence], 9 (No. 4, 1996).
"Wandering in the Void: Charting the U.N.'s New Strategic Role," Foreign Affairs, 72 (November/ December 1993); also in William H. Lewis, ed., Peacekeeping: The Way Ahead?(Washington, D.C.: National Defense University, McNair Paper # 25, 1993); in Foreign Affairs Agenda 1994: Critical Issues in Foreign Policy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1994); and in Charles W. Kegley, Jr., and Eugene R. Wittkopf, eds., The Global Agenda: Issues and Perspectives (New York: McGraw Hill, 1995); Japanese translation in Chuo Koron (February 1994).
“United States Strategy in a Changing World,” Disarmament, 13 (No. 4, 1990).
"The United States and the United Nations: Toward a New Realism," International Organization, 39 (Spring 1985); also in Paul F. Diehl, ed., The Politics of International Organizations: Patterns and Insights (Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1989); and in Peter A. Toma and Robert F. Gorman, eds., International Relations: A Primer on Understanding Global Issues (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1991).
"A Political Commentary on Cancun," Third World Quarterly, 4 (July 1982);
"The Politics of Money," Foreign Policy, 43 (Summer 1981).
"The North-South Dialogue: Problems and Prospects of Developing Nations," Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Special Edition, from a panel discussion(Autumn 1978).
"Environmental and Resource Interdependencies: Reorganizing for the Evolution of International Regimes" (with Ernst B. Haas), in Report of the Commission on the Organization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975).