International Organization articles from March 1995

International Organization archives from March 1995

The Philadelphian system: sovereignty, arms control, and balance of power in the American states-union, circa 1787-1861.
March 22, 1995... Realism, the dominant approach to world political theory and practice, conceives of political order as a dyad and insists on a sharp divide between the domestic and interstate realms. The dominant units are states, which have hierarchical order,...

Anarchy and identity.
March 22, 1995... Does the anarchy of international politics inevitably lead to relations between states based on self-help and relative gains? If it does, we can hope to do no more than ameliorate this conflict; if it does not, perhaps we can escape from the...

Dialectical functionalism: stagnation as a booster of European integration.
March 22, 1995... Progress and stagnation have been both regular and explainable phases in the development of the European Union (EU) and its predecessor the European Communities (EC).(1) Yet, four prominent theories of European integration fail to account for its...

Openings in the wall: transnational migrants, labor unions, and U.S. immigration policy.
March 22, 1995... The field of international political economy has largely ignored the study of migration, which differs from other issues traditionally addressed by students of international political economy. Migrants are sociopolitical as well as economic...

Intellectual property protection and antitrust in the developing world: crisis, coercion, and choice.
March 22, 1995... The nations of the developing world have made a dramatic turn toward market-oriented policies. As recently as 1985, developing countries were still pressing for a new international economic order (NIEO) based on economic nationalism and the...

The effect of international environmental institutions: how we might learn more.
March 22, 1995... When is successful international collaboration possible? Can policymakers or other actors in international relations do something to facilitate cooperation, and if so, what? These questions, which are fundamental both to the study of...