Hierarchy Amidst Anarchy: Transaction Costs and Institutional Choice

by Weber, Katja

• ISBN13: 9780791447208
• ISBN10: 0791447200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Hierarchy Amidst Anarchy is a study of state security provisions, explaining not only why states cooperate, and with whom, but also why they choose the specific types of cooperation they do. In contrast to competing theories that explain international cooperation in terms of the desire to be "bigger" or "stronger", Weber insists that the key to understanding countries' international institutional choices can be found by focusing on economic theories of organization and, more specifically, transaction costs.

Author Biography

Katja Weber is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Developing the Transaction Costs Model	13	(18)
Wartime Alliances during the Final Years of the Napoleonic Wars	31	(18)
Security Arrangements Following Napoleon's Abdication	49	(24)
In Search of Security via NATO	73	(18)
The European Defense Community (EDC)	91	(20)
Conclusion: Transaction Costs and a Theory of Integration	111	(20)
Notes	131	(36)
Bibliography	167	(24)
Index	191