From 1999 to 2004, Mansbach was a co-editor of International Studies Quarterly, an official journal of the International Studies Association.[9][10] The ISA's Midwest Region had previously awarded Mansbach and Yale H. Ferguson the Lynne Rienner/Quincy Wright Award for their coauthored 1996 book, Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change.[11] In 2014, Mansbach received the ISA's James N. Rosenau Award.[12] In 2017, the ISA convened a Distinguished Scholar Panel to honor Mansbach and Ferguson.[13] ISA–Midwest honored Mansbach again in 2021, with the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award.[14]
Selected books
Mansbach, Richard W.; Ferguson, Yale H.; Lampert, Donald E. (1976). The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System. Prentice-Hall. ISBN9780139479526.[15]
Mansbach, Richard W.; Vasquez, John A. (1981). In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm for Global Politics. Columbia University Press. ISBN9780231050609.[16]
Ferguson, Yale H.; Mansbach, Richard W. (1988). The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN9780872495708.[17]
Ferguson, Yale H.; Mansbach, Richard W. (1996). Polities: authority, identities and change. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN9781570031281.[18]
Ferguson, Yale H.; Mansbach, Richard W. (2012). Globalization: The Return of Borders to a Borderless World. Routledge. ISBN9780415521970.[19]
Hermann, Charles F. (June 1978). "The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actors in the Global System. By Richard W. Mansbach, Yale H. Ferguson, and Donald E. Lampert. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Pp. x + 326. $8.95, paper.)". American Political Science Review. 72 (2): 801–802. doi:10.2307/1954260. JSTOR1954260. S2CID152001182.
Volgy, Thomas J. (December 1976). "Book Reviews : The Web of World Politics: Non-State Actors in the Global System. By RICHARD W. MANSBACH, YALE H. FERGUSON, and DONALD E. LAMPERT. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1976. $8.95. )". Political Research Quarterly. 29 (4): 658–659. doi:10.1177/106591297602900427. S2CID154128024.
Peterson, M. J. (October 1981). "In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm for Global Politics. By Richard W. Mansbach and John A. Vasquez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. xxv, 559. Indexes. $25". American Journal of International Law. 75 (4): 1003–1005. doi:10.2307/2201380. JSTOR2201380. S2CID148071131.
Wittkopf, Eugene R. (March 1982). "In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm for Global Politics. By Richard W. Mansbach and John A. Vasquez. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. xxv + 599. $25.00.)". American Political Science Review. 76 (1): 198–200. doi:10.1017/S0003055400186897.
Haas, Michael (November 1982). "Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm. by Ronald H. Chilcote; In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm for Global Politics. by Richard W. Mansbach, John A. Vasquez". The Journal of Politics. 44 (4): 1120–1122. doi:10.2307/2130682. JSTOR2130682.
Banks, Michael (March 1, 1982). "Book Review: Richard W. Mansbach and John A. Vasquez, In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm for Global Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, 559 pp., £14.50)". Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 11 (1): 85–86. doi:10.1177/03058298820110010903. S2CID143614746.
^Zinnes, Dinna A. (December 1990). "The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics. By Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. 312p. $29.95. - Inquiry, Logic, and International Politics. By Benjamin A. Most and Harvey Starr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. 243p. $39.95. - Formal Theories in International Relations. By Michael Nicholson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 254p. $49.50". American Political Science Review. 84 (4): 1332–1337. doi:10.2307/1963269. JSTOR1963269. S2CID227290681.
Jones, R. J. Barry (July 1997). "Polities: authority, identities and change. By Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1996. 476pp. Index. $49.95; ISBN 1 57003 128 2. Pb.: $24.95; ISBN 1 57003 027 8". International Affairs. 73 (3). doi:10.2307/2624277. JSTOR2624277.
Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio (March 2001). "Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change. By Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 476p. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper". American Political Science Review. 95 (1): 253–254. doi:10.1017/S0003055401782019. S2CID147501393.
^Yildirim, Tevfik Murat (January 8, 2014). "Globalization: The Return of Borders to a Borderless World by Ferguson, Yale H. and Mansbach, Richard W.. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 316pp., £27.99, ISBN 978 0 415 52197 0". Political Studies Review. 12 (1): 115–116. doi:10.1111/1478-9302.12041_45. S2CID149882777.