International Organization articles from January 2001

International Organization archives from January 2001

Class Versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade.
January 1, 2001... Introduction The expansion of international trade has been a powerful engine driving economic growth in Western nations over the last two centuries. At the same time, it has provoked an enormous amount of internal political conflict, since...

The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union.
January 1, 2001... Why did the European Union (EU) decide to expand to Central and Eastern Europe? [1] More precisely, since it is still uncertain when and under which conditions Eastern enlargement will actually take place, why did the EU open the accession...

Institutions and Investors: The Politics of the Economic Crisis in Southeast Asia.
January 1, 2001... The most dramatic development in the international political economy during the 1990s--the Asian economic crisis--deserves our attention. Given that Asia's rapid economic rise spawned so many debates in the literature, it is peculiar that a...

Foreign Aid and Statehood in Africa.
January 1, 2001... Foreign aid is supposed to encourage low-income states to develop; yet critics across the ideological spectrum accuse it of doing the opposite. Conservatives and libertarians condemn foreign aid for giving untrustworthy leaders resources they...

Liberal Social Reconstruction and the Resolution of Civil Wars in Central America.
January 1, 2001... Are forceful security guarantees necessary to resolve civil wars? Drawing on realist insights, Barbara Walter argues that insecurity is "the critical barrier to civil war settlement" and that security guarantees are a "necessary [but] not...

Stabilizing the Peace After Civil War: An Investigation of Some Key Variables.
January 1, 2001... Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Sudan: these and other civil wars have posed seemingly intractable challenges to policymakers, scholars, and human rights groups seeking to put an end to such deadly conflicts. In the wake of negotiated settlements...