Monographs, edited volumes and special issues (selected)

2024 “Dialogue with the Chinese School of IR Theory: A CJIP Reader”, published across two issues of The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 17, No. 2+3, pp. 128-305 (co-edited with Toni Erskine, Peng Lu, and Xiao Ren). [* 2026 Recipient of the ISA Theory Section “Edited Volume, Special Issue, or Symposium Award”]

2023-4 Special issue on “New Directions in Foreign Policy Analysis”, published across two issues of Contexto Internacional, vol. 45, no. 2 (2023) and vol. 46, no. 2 (2024) (co-edited with Carolina Salgado and Maíra Siman).

2013 Power, realism and constructivism (Abingdon et al: Routledge), published in The New International Relations Series. [(Unanimous) Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award. The award recognizes the best book or edited volume published in the prior two years that contributes to the theorization of world politics].

2012 The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [edited volume, 60000 words written by myself]. Translation into Portuguese: O retorno da geopolítica na Europa? Mecanismos sociais e as crises de identidade na política externa (São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2020).

2012 The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance: International Political Economy meets Foucault, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan (co-edited with Iver Neumann)

2011 Foreign Policy Analysis, 5 vols (Sage Library of International Relations), London et al: Sage (co-edited with Walter Carlsnaes)

2006 Constructivism and International Relations: Alexander Wendt and his critics, London, New York: Routledge (co-edited with Anna Leander)

2004 Contemporary Security Analyses and Copenhagen Peace Research, London, New York: Routledge (co-edited with Dietrich Jung)

1998 Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of A Death Foretold (London, New York: Routledge). Translations into:

• Chinese: 國際關係與國際政治經濟學 (Taipeh: Weber Publications, 2000)
• Romanian: Realism şi relaţii internaţionale (Iaṣi, Institutul European, 2000)
• Czech: Realismus v mezinárodních vztazích a mezinárodní politické ekonomii (Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2004)
• Italian: Il realismo nelle relazioni internazionali (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2008)
• Polish: Realizm w nauce o stosunkach międzynarodowych (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2017)

1994 Power Analysis as a critique of power politics: understanding power and governance in the Second Gulf War (PhD thesis, Florence: European University Institute).

Articles (selected. Hyperlinks to open access)

2025 ‘Foregrounding Politics: From the Climate-Security Nexus to Peace in the Anthropocene’, Geoforum, vol. 165 (October): 104380

2024 ‘Forum: Debating the Chinese School(s) of IR Theory’, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 277-305 (co-authored with Peng Lu, Xiao Ren, Toni Erskine, Barry Buzan, Beate Jahn, and Justin Rosenberg).

2024 ‘Relationism(s) Unpacked: Engaging Yaqing Qin’s Relational Theory of World Politics’, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 187-205.

2024 Stefano Guzzini, Maíra Siman, and Carolina Salgado. ‘Critical and Interpretivist Foreign Policy Analysis: Reflecting on Three Challenges Ahead.’ Contexto Internacional: Journal of Global Connections vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 1-16.

2024 Stefano Guzzini, Sam Okoth Opondo, and Karen Smith. ‘Forum on Recognition in Foreign Policy (Analysis) and (The Study of) Diplomacy.’ Contexto Internacional: Journal of Global Connections, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 1-34.

2022 ‘“Vision of itself” in Foreign Policy Analysis: From the role of ideas to identity and recognition’, Teoria Polityki, Nr. 6 (2022), pp. 33-57.

2020 ‘Protean power for an open social ontology, non-efficient causal explanations and cautious political practice’, International Theory, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 449-458

2020 ‘Embrace IR anxieties (Or: Morgenthau’s approach to power, and the challenge of combining the three domains of IR theorizing)’, International Studies Review, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 268-288.

2017 ‘Symposium on Stefano Guzzini’s (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe? Social mechanisms and foreign policy identity crises’, Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 399-422 (with John Agnew, Jeffrey Checkel, Daniel H. Deudney, Jennifer Mitzen).

2017 ‘Militarizing politics, essentializing identities: Interpretivist process tracing and the power of geopolitics’, Cooperation and Conflict, vol 52, no. 3, pp. 423-445.

2017 ‘Power and cause’, Journal of International Relations and Development, 20, 4, pp. 737-759.

2015 ‘Benjamin Cohen on global political order: when Keynes meets realism – and beyond’, Contexto Internacional, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 851-887.

2015 ‘El poder en Max Weber’, Relaciones Internacionales, no. 30 (Octubre 2015 - Enero 2016), pp. 97-115. [Open Access]

2015 “What kind of theory – if any – is securitization?” (Forum with Thierry Balzacq, Heikki Patomäki, Michael Williams and Ole Wæver), International Relations, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 96-136.

2013 ‘The ends of International Relations Theory: stages of reflexivity and modes of theorising’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 521-541.

2011 ‘Securitisation as a causal mechanism’, Security Dialogue, vol. 42, no. 4-5, pp. 329-341.

2010 ‘Imposing coherence: the central role of practice in Friedrich Kratochwil’s theorising of politics, international relations and science’, Journal of Inter­national Relations and Development, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 301-322.

2005 ‘The concept of power: a constructivist analysis’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 495-521.

• (2011) selected by the editors of Millennium for their 40^th anniversary collection as one of the seven most ground-breaking articles ever published there
• (2012) reprinted in Mark Haugaard and Stewart Clegg (eds), Power and Politics (London et al: Sage), Vol. 4 (Analytic Approaches to Power), pp. 335-358.

2004 ‘The enduring dilemmas of realism in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 533-568.

2003 ‘Il costruttivismo e il ruolo delle istituzioni nelle relazioni internazionali’, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, vol. 44. no. 2, pp. 215-235. [English version accessible as COPRI Working Paper 38/2002]

2002 ‘Foreign Policy without diplomacy: the Bush administration at a crossroads’, International Relations, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 291-297.

2001 (co-authored with Anna Leander) ‘A social theory for international relations: an appraisal of Alexander Wendt’s theoretical and disciplinary synthesis’, Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 316-338.

• (2002) ‘Una teoria social para las relaciones internacionales: una evaluación de la síntesis teórica y disciplinaria de Alexander Wendt’, Desafíos, no. 6 (1/2002), pp. 52-86 (Spanish translation in Colombian journal).

2001 ‘The significance and roles of theory in teaching International Relations’, Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 98-117.

2000 ‘A reconstruction of constructivism in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 147-182.

• (2009) reprinted in Stephen Chan and Cerwyn Moore (eds), Approaches to Inter­national Relations, vol. II: Critical Approaches to International Relations: Themes and Theories (London et al.: Sage), pp. 275-305.
• (2014) Portuguese translation published in Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 376-429.

1995 ‘The “Long Night of the First Republic”: years of clientelistic implosion in Italy’, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 27-61.

1994 ‘La longue nuit de la Première République. L'implosion clientéliste en Italie’, Revue Française de Science Politique, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 979-1013.

1993 ‘Structural Power: The Limits of Neorealist Power Analysis’, International Organization, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 443-78.

• (2012) reprinted in Mark Haugaard and Stewart Clegg (eds) Power and Politics (London et al: Sage), Vol. 4 (Power and International Politics), pp. 139-176.
• (2022) “Potęga strukturalna: ograniczenia neorealistycznej koncepcji potęgi” (Polish translation by Mateusz Filary-Szczepanik), in: Anna Wojciuk and Hanna Schreiber (eds), Stosunki międzynarodowe. Antologia tekstów źródłowych. Tom 2: Współczesne oblicza dyscypliny – po 1989 roku, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, pp: 85-107.

Book chapters (selected)

2025 (co-authored with Felix Berenskötter) ‘Contested essential concepts in international relations’, in Cameron Thies (ed.) Handbook of International Relations (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar), pp. 89-105. [also accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2024: 02]

2025 (co-authored with Jimmy Casas Klausen) ‘Power in International Political Sociology’, in Stacey Goddard, George Lawson, Ole Jacob Sending (eds) Oxford Handbook in International Political Sociology (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 659-91.

2023 ‘Ideas and Identity from Rationalism to Theories of Recognition’, in Patrick A. Mello & Falk Ostermann (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 21-38.

2022 ‘Power in World Politics’, in William Thompson (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

2021 ‘Power in Communitarian Evolution’, in Piki Ish-Shalom, Markus Kornprobst, Vincent Pouliot (eds) Theorizing World Orders: Cognitive Evolution and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 35-52. [also accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2020: 04]

2020 ‘Prefácio à edição brasileira – Da geografia da política para a política da geografia’ [Preface to the Brazilian edition of The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?], in Stefano Guzzini (ed.) O retorno da geopolítica na Europa? Mecanismos sociais e as crises de identidade na política externa (São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2020), translated by Bárbara Motta, pp. 15-36. [English version accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2020: 11]

2020 ‘Saving Realist Prudence’, in J. Samuel Barkin (ed.) The Social Construction of State Power: Applying Realist Constructivism (Bristol: Bristol University Press), pp. 217-232. (DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv114c761.13) [also accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2019: 11]

2017 ‘Teorie realistyczne i praktyka. Przedmowa do wydania polskiego’ [Realist Theory and Practice. Preface to the Polish edition], in Stefano Guzzini, Realizm w nauce o stosunkach międzynarodowych, transl. by Sebastian Szymánski (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar), pp. 13-35. [English version accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2017: 08]

2017 ‘Max Weber’s power’, in Richard Ned Lebow (ed.) Max Weber and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 97-118.

2017 (co-authored with Anna Leander) ‘Following Onuf’s rules on rule: the legal road to social constructivism’, in Harry Gould (ed.) The Art of World Making: Nicholas Onuf and his critics (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 175-188.

2017 ‘International political sociology, or: the social ontology and power politics of process’, in Xavier Guillaume & Pinar Bilgin (eds) Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology (Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 366-375. [also accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2016: 06]

2017 ‘Foreign policy identity crises and uses of the West’, in Gunther Hellmann and Benjamin Herborth, eds, Uses of the West: Security and the Politics of Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 13-36. [also accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2015: 05]

2016 ‘Power’, in Felix Berenskoetter (ed.) Concepts in World Politics (London et al.: Sage), pp. 23-40.

2015 ‘A História dual da Securitização’, in André Barrinha & Maria Raquel Freire (eds) Segurança, Liberdade e Política: Pensar a Escola de Copenhaga em Português (Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), pp. 15-32. [English version accessible as DIIS Working Paper 2015: 02]

2014 (Ewelina Sokolowska & SG) ‘The open-endedness and indeterminacy of Human Nature’, Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 142-146.

2013 ‘Liberal international order’, in Tim Dunne and Trine Flockhart (eds) Liberalism and World Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press/Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 190), pp. 247-256.

2013 ‘In the beginning was conceptualisation’, in Fredrik Bynander & Stefano Guzzini (eds) Rethinking foreign policy (London et al: Routledge), pp. 3-14.

2013 ‘Power: Bourdieu’s field analysis of relational capital, misrecognition and domination’, in Rebecca Adler-Nissen (ed.) Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking key concepts (Abingdon et al.: Routledge), pp. 79-91.

2012 ‘The ambivalent diffusion of power in global governance’, in Stefano Guzzini & Iver Neumann (eds) The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance: International Political Economy meets Foucault (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 1-37.

2006 ‘From (alleged) unipolarity to the decline of multilateralism? A power-theoretical critique’, in Edward Newman, Ramesh Thakur and John Tirman (eds) Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power, International Order and Structural Change (Tokyo et al.: United Nations University Press), pp. 119-138.

2004 ‚In den IB nichts Neues? Der 11. September und die Rollenverständnisse der Disziplin‘, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, vol. 11, no. 1 (June), pp. 135-146.

2004 ‘“The Cold War is what we make of it”: when peace research meets constructivism in International Relations’, in Stefano Guzzini & Dietrich Jung (eds) Contempo­rary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research (London, New York: Routledge), pp. 40-52.

2004 ‘Constructivism and International Relations: an analysis of Niklas Luhmann’s conceptualisation of power’, in Mathias Albert & Lena Hilkermeier (eds) Observing International Relations: Niklas Luhmann and World Politics (London, New York: Routledge), pp. 208-222.

2001 ‘Calling for a less “brandish” and less grand reconvention’, Review of International Studies, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 495-501. (DOI: 10.1017/s0260210501004958)

2000 ‘Strange’s oscillating realism: opposing the ideal - and the apparent’, in Thomas Lawton, Amy Verdun and James Rosenau (eds) Strange Power: shaping the parameters of international relations and international political economy (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 215-228.

2000 ‘The use and misuse of power analysis in international theory’, in Ronen Palan (ed.) Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories (London, New York: Routledge), pp. 53-66.

1999 ‘The Italian Democrats of the Left’, in Robert Ladrech and Philippe Marlière (eds) Social Democratic Parties in the European Union: History, Organization, Policies (London: Macmillan), pp. 133-147. (DOI: 10.1057/9780230374140_11)

1998 (co-authored with Anna Leander) ‘EMU and the crisis of European social contracts’, in Petri Minkkinen and Heikki Patomäki (eds) The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic P.), pp. 133-163. Previously published in 1997 by Helsinki: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, pp. 131-161).

1997 ‘Robert Gilpin: A Realist Quest for the Dynamics of Power’, in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver (eds) The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (London, New York: Routledge), pp. 121-144. [Also accessible as EUI Working Paper SPS No. 94/7]

1997 ‘Maintenir les dilemmes de la modernité en suspens: analyse et éthique poststructuralistes en Relations Internationales’, in Klaus-Gerd Giesen (ed.) L'éthique de l'espace politique mondial: métissages disciplinaires (Bruxelles: Bruylant), pp. 247-285.