International Organization articles from June 1999

International Organization archives from June 1999

Editors' note.(articles on international security)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 1999... This issue contains five articles that deal with international security. This is rather a lot for a journal known for its emphasis on international political economy, and a sharp contrast to the previous issue, which dealt entirely with "IPE."...

The nuclear taboo: the United States and the normative basis of nuclear non-use.
June 22, 1999... A normative element--a "nuclear taboo"--must be taken into account in explaining why the United States has not used nuclear weapons since 1945. Realists would deny that a taboo exists or that it can be identified separately from the behavioral...

Inward bound: domestic institutions and military conflicts.
June 22, 1999... International relations scholars are increasingly turning to the study of domestic politics to explain international behavior. In this article I argue that domestic institutions in democratic states greatly affect the propensity of a leader to...

Piecing together the democratic peace: the CSCE, norms, and the "construction" of security in post-Cold War Europe.(Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe)
June 22, 1999... The theoretical debate on the role of norms in international relations has focused almost exclusively on norms as interests and whether they cause behavior that would otherwise not occur. The choice by states to reshape the normative framework...

Military technology races.
June 22, 1999... I study the dynamics of a race to develop a new weapon as a function of a nation's absolute and relative technological position as well as of the characteristics of the weapon. A technological breakthrough by one of the rivaling nations...

War is in the error term.
June 22, 1999... Deductively consistent, rationalist explanations for war generally imply that the onset of war is unpredictable and that theories of war are indeterminate. James Fearon shows that a rationalist explanation for war most often suggests that...

The New Wave of Regionalism.
June 22, 1999... The rapid growth of economic regionalism has stimulated a large and influential body of research. Many existing studies, however, place little emphasis on the political conditions that shape regionalism. Lately, the drawbacks of such an...

Wage bargaining, Central Bank independence, and the real effects of money: erratum.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 1999... A transcription error in Iversen's article in the Summer 1998 International Organization (volume 52, no. 3, pages 469-504) led to an error in Equation 13 on page 480. Below we print the correct equation. This change has no bearing on the...