International Organization articles from January 2000

International Organization archives from January 2000

"Let's Argue!": Communicative Action in World Politics.
January 1, 2000... Introduction The controversy between social constructivism and rational choice has become one of the most significant recent debates in the field of international relations and has largely crossed disciplinary boundaries between...

From Mercenary to Citizen Armies: Explaining Change in the Practice of War.
January 1, 2000... Common sense is a method of arriving at workable solutions from false premises by nonsensical reasoning. Joseph Alois Schumpeter Mercenaries went out of style in the nineteenth century. States altered the conduct of war by raising...

Bargaining, Enforcement, and Multilateral Sanctions: When Is Cooperation Counterproductive?
January 1, 2000... Introduction A common thread in the economic sanctions literature is the assumption that multilateral cooperation among the potential sanctioning states is a necessary and/or sufficient condition for generating a successful outcome. [1]...

What Single Voice? European Institutions and EU-U.S. Trade Negotiations.
January 1, 2000... Introduction "Let's unite. And the world will listen to us" was an ad campaign used to mobilize the pro-European camp in France during the 1992 referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on European Union. [1] This slogan summarizes well one of...

The Politics of Dispute Settlement Design: Explaining Legalism in Regional Trade Pacts.
January 1, 2000... In recent years two parallel trends have emerged in the organization of international trade. The first development is the rise of regionalism, with a host of new integration initiatives drawn along geographical lines. More than thirty regional...