Barbara Koremenos
BIO
Barbara Koremenos is a Political Science Professor at the University of Michigan. She received an MPP and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Koremenos won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award — the first such winner to study international relations and law. In her book, The Continent of International Law: Explaining Agreement Design (Cambridge University Press), she draws on contract theory and game theory to develop comparative static predictions regarding how international law can be structured to make international cooperation most successful given harsh international political realities. She tests these predictions with an original scientific dataset across the issues of economics, environment, human rights, and security. Her current projects include explaining the subnational diplomacy undertaken by the U.S. fifty states and designing solar geoengineering institutions that incentivize mitigation rather than discourage it. Her journal publications include American Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Legal Studies, Law and Contemporary Problems, and Review of International Organizations. Koremenos has served on two National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees and one American Academy of Arts and Sciences panel using her expertise to shed light on international law and norms frameworks, medicine regulation, and international health cooperation for future pandemics. She regularly consulted for the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government from 2019-2024.
- Carlson, M., Barbara Koremenos. 2021. Cooperation Failure or Secret Collusion? Absolute Monarchs and Informal Cooperation. The Review of International Organizations 16:95-135.
- Horton, Joshua, Barbara Koremenos. 2020. Steering and Influence in Transnational Climate Governance: Nonstate Engagement in Solar Geoengineering Research . Global Environmental Politics 2(3):93-111.
- Koremenos, Barbara. 2019. Duration ≠ Seriousness of Commitment: An Empirical and Theoretical Critique of Nyarko's Treaties vs. Executive Agreements. AJIL Unbound 113:178-183.
- Barbara Koremenos. 2016. The Continent of International Law: Explaining Agreement Design. Cambridge University Press :457.
- Koremenos, Barbara, Prakash, Aseem , Heritier, Adrienne , Brousseau, Eric . 2015. Organizational Leadership and Collective Action in International Governance: An Introduction. Global Policy 6(3):234-236.
- Koremenos, Barbara. 2015. The Role of State Leadership in the Incidence of International Governance. Global Policy 6(3):237-246.
- Koremenos, Barbara. 2013. The Continent of International Law. Journal of Conflict Resolution 57(4):653-681.
- Koremenos, Barbara. 2013. What's left out and why? Informal provisions in formal international law. Review of International Organizations 8(2):137-162.
