International Organization articles from March 1998

International Organization archives from March 1998

The origins of central banking: solutions to the free-rider problem.
March 22, 1998... Certain domestic institutions are sources of international power, by way of their abilities to encourage investment and to mobilize social resources in wartime. For example, states with democratic institutions almost always win the wars they...

Bargaining, enforcement, and international cooperation.
March 22, 1998... Introduction A cluster of arguments referred to as "cooperation theory" or "neoliberal institutionalism" stands as one of the more interesting and important developments in international relations theory in the last fifteen years.(1) Focused...

Politics at the water's edge: parties, voters, and the use of force abroad.
March 22, 1998... Theoretical and empirical analyses of the political determinants of macroeconomic policy abound. In political-business cycle models, incumbent presidents use macroeconomic policy as a campaign tool.(1) In models of partisan politics, Republican...

Geopolitical relations in the European middle ages: history and theory.
March 22, 1998... One thing is clear: the Middle Ages could not live on Catholicism, nor could the ancient world on politics. On the contrary, it is the manner in which they gained their livelihood which explains why in one case politics, in the other case...

Economic interests, party, and ideology in early cold war era U.S. foreign policy.
March 22, 1998... Although it is widely acknowledged that economic interests influence the politics of trade policy, most research on international relations treats security issues differently. The realist paradigm prevailing in the analysis of security issues...

Managing the evolution of multilateralism.
March 22, 1998... In the past five years a relatively extensive literature has emerged that explores the demand for multilateral cooperation, that is, those factors that motivate states to develop (or resist developing) formal institutions that operate to...

Tariffs and trade fluctuations: does protectionism matter as much as we think?
March 22, 1998... Introduction Much of the theoretical and empirical analysis in international political economy over the last twenty-five years has concerned the relationships among power concentration and its behavioral implications (hegemony-leadership),...