International Organization articles from June 1998

International Organization archives from June 1998

The third leg of the Kantian tripod for peace: international organizations and militarized disputes, 1950-1985.
June 22, 1998... Immanuel Kant's vision of "perpetual peace," expressed more than two centuries ago, was built on a tripod of complementary influences: (1) "republican constitutions" (in modern parlance, representative democracy) would constrain autocratic...

Wage bargaining, central bank independence, and the real effects of money.
June 22, 1998... Introduction It is well known that high international financial capital mobility undermines monetary policy autonomy when exchange rates are fixed.(1) Even in semifixed exchange rate systems of the sort currently adhered to by most OECD...

Mixed signals: central bank independence, coordinated wage-bargaining, and European Monetary Union.
June 22, 1998... The nations of the European Union (EU) are taking a major step toward greater economic and political integration by creating a monetary union to be administered by a European central bank that is formally independent of political control. There...

Systemic conflict and regional monetary integration: the case of Europe.
June 22, 1998... Introduction Study of the political economy of European monetary integration, stimulated in the 1990s by the commitment of the European Union to create an Economic and Monetary Union, has produced a rich and sophisticated literature....

Positive feedback: the impact of trade liberalization on industry demands for protection.
June 22, 1998... The continued openness of the U.S. economy during the 1970s and 1980s poses a puzzle for many theories of political economy. Despite the world economic recessions of this period, the influx of cheap goods from Asia, and the increased...

Reversing the gun sights: transnational civil society targets land mines.
June 22, 1998... Norms, Socialization, and Transnational Civil Society The security policies of states represent, prima facie, a particularly hard case for demonstrating the role of transnational nonstate actors in new issue areas of world politics. This is so...