Brian Frederking, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Office: Carnegie Hall 216
Email: bfrederk@mckendree.edu
Phone: (618) 537-6913
Education
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1997
M.A., Syracuse University, 1993
B.A., McKendree College, 1990
Recent Brown Bag Presentations
"McKendree and Abraham Lincoln," January 31, 2024
"Here We Go Again: The Israel-Hamas Conflict," October 11, 2023
Books
Rengotiating the Liberal Order: Evidence from the UN Security Council, 2023, Lynne Rienner Publications.
The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent
World, 2015, 5th edition, co-edited with Paul Diehl, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publications.
The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent
World, 2010, 4th edition, co-edited with Paul Diehl, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publications.
The United States and the Security Council: Collective Security since the Cold War, 2007, London: Routledge.
Resolving Security Dilemmas: A Constructivist Explanation of the INF Treaty, 2000, London: Ashgate Press.
Renegotiating the Liberal Order: Evidence from the UN Security Council
To request a copy of this dataset, email me at bfrederk@mckendree.edu.
Codebook for the Collective Security Dataset
Output for the statistical results in Chapters 4, 5, 9, and 10
Coding results for the analyses of Security Council speeches
Book Reviews
Rengotiating the Liberal Order: Evidence from the UN Security Council.
Excerpt of a review in the December 2023 issue of Perspectives on Politics.
These are books for our time. Both represent the types of thinking needed for renegotiating the liberal order. Tatum’s historical overview deepens our vision of liberalism, its troubling drift into paternalism and arrogance, and its future possibilities. Frederking’s rigorous data-making effort produces concrete, social-scientific understandings of how liberal institutions have worked in the past. Both theoretical vision and systematic evidence will prove essential in addressing the shortcomings of the current liberal international order.
The United States and the Security Council: Collective Security since the Cold War:
Review from John Ikenberry, in the March/April 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs:
Can the world's leading states agree on rules about the use of force and collectively provide a stable peace -- or is the world doomed to great-power rivalry and security competition? This unassuming little book provides one of the best expositions yet of the dilemmas that plague current efforts to forge agreement on global security. Frederking notes that security cooperation today must cope with two historically unique realities: high levels of "security interdependence," in which threats such as nuclear proliferation and terrorism can be tackled only through sustained cooperation, and U.S. military supremacy, in which one state stands above all the others. The dilemma for the United States is that it would like to maintain its position, but if it acts unilaterally, it risks undermining its role as a legitimate leader and alienating states whose cooperation it needs. Frederking traces this conundrum as it has played out in post-Cold War UN Security Council debates over peacekeeping, economic sanctions, judicial tribunals, and the use of force. He nicely illuminates the difficulties of constructing collective security rules in a one-superpower world while also making a strong argument for why the United States should work through the Security Council nonetheless.
Book Chapters
“Campus Speech Code Committees,” in Short Games and Active Learning in Political Science: Beating the Clock, Mark Harvey, et al (eds.): Taylor and Francis Publications, 2024.
"Transitional Justice Mechanisms and Human Rights," with Max Aviles, in Emerging Threats
to Human Rights, Heather Smith-Cannoy (ed). 2019, Temple University Press.
“Language Games: Dialogical Analysis of INF Negotiations,” with Gavan Duffy and Seth Tucker, in Interpretive Political Science, Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Publications, 2010.
“Constructing Post-Cold War Collective Security,” in Interpretive Political Science, Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Publications, 2010.
“In Search of Non-Proliferation Collective Security Rules,” in The Search for WMD: Non-Proliferation, Intelligence, and Pre-Emption in the New Security
Environment, Graham F. Walker (ed.), Dalhousie University Centre for Foreign Policy
Studies, 2006, 262-273., Graham F. Walker (ed.), Dalhousie University Centre for Foreign Policy Studies,
2006, 262-273.
“Constructing Post-Cold War Collective Security,” in World Politics: a Reader, Steven Spiegel et al (eds.), Wadsworth Press, 2004, 360-384., Steven Spiegel et al (eds.), Wadsworth Press, 2004, 360-384.
"Representatives, Pressure Groups and Term Limits," with Linda Fowler of Syracuse
University, in Congress on Display, Congress at Work, William T. Bianco (ed.) University of Michigan Press, 2000, pp. 189-216.
Journal Articles
"Legitimacy and the UN Security Council Agenda," 2017, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 347-353, with Christopher Patane of the Unviersity of Missouri.
"The UN Security Council and Israeli Policies in Palestine," 2016, Illinois Political Science Review, Vol. 16, pp. 58-74.
"Putting Transitional Justice on Trial: Democracy and Human Rights in Post-Civil War
Societies," 2015, International Social Science Review, Vol. 91, No. 1, Article 3.
"Changing the Rules: A Speech Act Analysis of the End of the Cold War, International Studies Quarterly, 2009, Vol. 53: 325-347, with Gavan Duffy of Syracuse University.
"Authority in World Politics: Nuclear Proliferation in Iran and North Korea," Journal of International and Global Studies, Vol, 1, No. 1, November 2009, pp. 72-99, with McKendree students Kaitlyne Motl and
Nishant Timilsina.
“Collective Security in Afghanistan,” Illinois Political Science Review, Fall 2005, with McKendree students Sarah Haefner and Greg Mennerick.
“Simulations and Student Learning,” Journal of Political Science Education, Fall 2005, Volume 1, Issue 3. pp. 385-394.
, Fall 2005, Volume 1, Issue 3. pp. 385-394.
“Interpreting September 11,” International Politics, March 2005, Volume 42: 135-151, with McKendree students Michael Artime and Max Sanchez-Pagano.
“Constructing Post-Cold War Collective Security,” American Political Science Review, August 2003, Vol. 97, No. 3, pp.363-378.
“Language Games: Analyzing the INF Treaty Negotiations,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 2, June 1998, 271-294, with Gavan Duffy and Seth Tucker of Syracuse University.
“Resolving Security Dilemmas: A Constructivist Interpretation of the End of the Cold
War,” International Politics, Vol. 35, No. 2, June 1998.
Online Articles
“Maybe We’re Doing It Wrong,” St. Louis Supplement, online at www.supplementstlouis.com.
“Long Live Peacekeeping,” St. Louis Supplement, online at https://supplementstlouis.com.
“Hierarchy vs. Networks,” St. Louis Supplement, online at https://supplementstlouis.com.
Advisory Posts
Faculty Adviser to the Public Affairs Forum, Model United Nations, and Scholars: The McKendree College Online Journal of Undergraduate Research
Guest Appearances
Guest commentator on St. Louis radio station FM 97.1
Sept. 11 and Sept. 12, 2001, regarding the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
April 3, 2002, regarding increased conflict in the Middle East.
Nov. 20, 2002, regarding the possibility of war in Iraq.
Jan. 7, 2003, regarding Iraq and North Korea.
Guest commentator on St. Louis radio station KMOX, AM 1120 Aug. 17, 2003, regarding the influence of September 11 on world politics.
March 21, 2003, regarding the global political implications of the war in Iraq.
Guest commentator on St. Louis radio station AM 550
March 16, 2004, regarding the Illinois primary elections.
Academic Journals
Editor, Illinois Political Science Review, 2000-2001
Reviewer for International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of Political Science
Education, European Security, International Politics, Security Dialogue, Canadian Journal of
Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal
of International Relations and Development, Illinois Political Science Review
Professional Organizations
American Political Science Association
International Studies Association
American Association of University Professors
International Peace Studies Society
Research Interests
United Nations Security Council, collective security, international organizations,
international law, conflict resolution, foreign policy
