International Organization articles

Recent articles from International Organization

The Territorial Integrity Norm: International Boundaries and the Use of Force.
March 22, 2001... Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. --Deuteronomy 27:17 Good fences make good neighbors. --Robert Frost, Mending Wall In the late twentieth century many international relations scholars and observers have commented on the declining importance of interstate...

Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth.
March 22, 2001... The 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in 1998 was marked by a flurry of conferences and publications by historians, but it was largely ignored in the discipline of international relations (IR). This oversight is odd because in IR the end of the Thirty Years' War is regarded as the...

Loosening the Ties that Bind: A Learning Model of Agreement Flexibility.
March 22, 2001... The tyranny of an unamendable constitution might lead to revolution; the forced continuance of the legal status quo as between states might make it more difficult to preserve peace. [1] We all know that future generations will have to live, even on a strictly technological level, in a...

Capital Mobility and the Origins of Stock Markets.
March 22, 2001... Political institutions play a role in shaping factor mobility across sectors, space, and borders. I provide an illustration of this accepted, though hardly researched, idea by looking at the emergence of modern capital markets in the nineteenth century. The rise of corporate finance...

The Institutional Foundations of Intergovernmentalism and Supranationalism in the European Union.
March 22, 2001... We present a unified model of the politics of the European Union (EU). We focus on the effects of the EU's changing treaty base--from the founding Rome Treaty (ratified in 1958) to the Single European Act (SEA, 1987), the Maastricht Treaty on European Union (1993), and the Amsterdam Treaty...