Professor Barnett has published extensively on international relations theory, global governance, humanitarian action, and the Middle East
One State Reality
Co-edited with Nathan J. Brown and Marc Lynch State Cornell University Press.
Global Governance in a World of Change
Co-edited with Jon C. W. Pevehouse and Kal Raustiala. Cambridge University Press.
Humanitarianism and Human Rights – A World of Differences?
2020. Cambridge University Press.
The Star and the Stripes – A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews
2016. Princeton University Press.
Paternalism Beyond Borders
2016. Cornell University Press.
Eyewitness to a Genocide
2016. A new “Afterword.”
Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism
2011. Cornell University Press.
Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics
With Martha Finnemore. 2004. Cornell University Press.
Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread
With Tom Weiss
2011. Routledge Press.
The International Humanitarian Order
2010. Routledge Press
Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, and Ethics
2008. Co-edited with Tom Weiss. Cornell University Press.
Power in Global Governance
2005. Co-edited with Raymond Duvall. Cambridge University Press.
National Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East
2002. Co-edited with Shibley Telhami. Cornell University Press.
Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order
1998. Columbia University Press.
Security Communities
Co-edited with Emanuel Adler 1998. Cambridge University Press.
Israel in Comparative Politics: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom.
1996. State University of New York Press.
Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt
1996. Columbia University Press.