International Institutions

by Judith L Goldstein

• ISBN13: 9781847878984
• ISBN10: 1847878989
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-28
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Sovereign nations share the international system with a host of non-statetransnational actors. Some of these entities have been created by statesthemselves, often as a result of the need to jointly solve a commonproblem, such as the United Nations. Other international entitiesare created when members of a society organize across traditionalnational boundaries to deal with a collective concern, such as AmnestyInternational or Oxfam. To understand and explain contemporary worldpolitics we need to consider these institutions, as key actors influencingissues of war and peace.Although transnational actors are not new on the world stage, the numberand type of these international entities expanded dramatically afterWorld War II. This set examines both the rise of these new transnationalactors and their effect on international politics and policies.Volume One: Causes - Why Do International Institutions Exist?Volume Two: Consequences - When, Where and Why InternationalInstitutions are EffectiveVolume Three: Types of Institutions - Security and EconomicVolume Four: Types of Institutions - Environment, Human Rights,International Courts, Multilateralism, Regionalism

Table of Contents

Causes

Coordination Versus Prisoners' Dilemma: Implications for international cooperation and regimes

Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions

Multilateralism: The anatomy of an institution

International Organization: A state of the art on an art of the state

World Society and the Nation-State

Regime Dynamics: The rise and fall of international regimes

Introduction: Epistemic communities and international policy coordination

Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics

Why States Act through Formal International Organizations

Interests, Power, and Multilateralism

Regimes and the Limits of Realism: Regimes as autonomous variables

The Demand for International Regimes

International Public Goods without International Government

International Agreements: A rational choice approach

The False Promise of International Institutions

Consequences: When, Where, and Why International Institutions are Effective

Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto frontier

Cave! Hic Dragones: A critique of regime analysis

The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations

Sharing Sovereignty: New institutions for collapsed and failing states

Norms and State Structure: UNESCO and the creation of state science bureaucracies

Institutional Conditions for Diffusion

The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders

International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order

Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation?

Do Treaties Constrain or Screen? Selection bias and treaty compliance

The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic delegation in postwar Europe

Types of Institutions: Security and Economic

From Balance to Concert: A study of international security cooperation

NATO's Functions after the Cold War

Beyond Anarchy: The importance of security institutions

Norms and Security: The case of international assassination

The Role of Multilateral Institutions in International Trade Cooperation

The New Wave of Regionalism

Regulatory Shift: The rise of judicial liberalization at the WTO

The Politics of Dispute Settlement Design: Explaining legalism in regional trade pacts

An Exclusive Country Club: The effects of the GATT on trade, 1950-94

Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the effects of the GATT and the WTO on world trade

International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and compliance in international monetary affairs

Balance-of-Payments Financing: Evolution of a regime

The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations

Types of Institutions: Environment, Human Rights, International Courts, Multilateralism, Regionalism

Introduction: Legalization and world politics

In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-based bargaining and outcomes in the GATT/WTO

Europe Before the Court: A political theory of legal integration

Legalization, Trade Liberalization, and Domestic Politics: A cautionary note

Feminist Approaches to International Law

The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing natural resources and the environment

Regime Design Matters: Intentional oil pollution and treaty compliance

Women's Rights, the European Court, and Supranational Constitutionalism

The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter

The Justice Cascade: The evolution and impact of foreign human rights trials in Latin America

Incomplete Internalization and Compliance with Human Rights Law

Reconstituting the Global Public Domain - Issues, Actors, and Practices

Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics

Governance in a Partially Globalized World

Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.