Coba jelasin Penelitian dari Thomas J. Biersteker dong

Topik penelitian Biersteker berfokus pada tata kelola pemerintahan, sejarah hubungan internasional, ekonomi politik internasional, sanksi, organisasi internasional, diplomasi, pemeliharaan perdamaian, pembangunan negara, dan terorisme. Ia telah menulis beberapa buku, termasuk Countering the Financing of Global Terrorism bersama Sue Eckert (New York and London: Routledge Publishers, ISBN 978-0-415-39643-1, 2007), The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance bersama Rodney B. Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy bersama Robert S. McNamara, James G. Blight, Robert K. Brigham, and Col. Herbert Y. Schandler (New York: PublicAffairs Press, 1999), State Sovereignty As Social Construct, bersama Cynthia Weber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), dan Distortion or Development? Contending Perspectives on the Multinational Corporation (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1978).

Ia juga telah menulis berbagai artikel jurnal, bab buku, dan makalah kebijakan, di antaranya "The “Peculiar Problems” of Scholarly Engagement in the Policy Process," International Studies Review (2008), "A Comparative Assessment of Saudi Arabia with other Countries of the Islamic World," published in An Update on the Campaign Against the Financing of Terrorism, New York: Council on Foreign Relations (2004), "Reducing the role of the state in the economy: a conceptual exploration of IMF and World Bank prescriptions" in International Studies Quarterly (1990), "Critical Reflections on Post-Positivism in International Relations," International Studies Quarterly (1989), dan "The Dialectics of World Order: Notes for a future archaeologist of international savoir faire," bersama Hayward R. Alker, Jr., International Studies Quarterly (1984).