International Organization articles from March 1997

International Organization archives from March 1997

The fragmentation and consolidation of international systems.
March 22, 1997... The world today, Benjamin Barber points out, is "falling precipitantly apart and coming reluctantly together at the very same moment."(1) While states from Canada to India are threatened with breakup due to fractious nationalist impulses of their...

American identity and neutral rights from independence to the War of 1812.
March 22, 1997... The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral. Under a vigorous national government, the natural strength and...

The use of analogies in developing outer space law.
March 22, 1997... Scholars focusing on international relations generally or foreign policy decision making are now paying increasing attention to the ways in which mental constructs -- ideas, beliefs, ideologies, or worldviews -- affect political actors'...

Varying methods of state violence.
March 22, 1997... At some point during 1991-92, something substantial changed in the way Israel's security agencies interrogated Palestinian detainees. The change was not in the number of detainees interrogated; on any given day in 1993, some four hundred to six...

U.S. politics and greater regulation of inward foreign direct investment.
March 22, 1997... An analyst of U.S. foreign economic policy observes that each wave of antiforeign sentiment associated with the surge of foreign direct investment (FDI) coming into the United States washes ashore a flotsam of restrictive and exclusionary laws...