International Organization articles from March 1999

International Organization archives from March 1999

World economic expansion and national security in pre-World War I Europe.
March 22, 1999... Profound and rapid changes in the costs and risks of international trade are now widely acknowledged to be a potent source of domestic political conflict. By altering the relative prices of goods available from world markets, these changes...

Do democratic institutions constrain or inform? Contrasting two institutional perspectives on democracy and war.
March 22, 1999... How do domestic political institutions affect the way states interact in international crises? In the last decade we have witnessed an explosion of interest in this question, thanks largely to the well-known claim that democratic states do not...

A new statecraft? Supranational entrepreneurs and international cooperation.
March 22, 1999... Does informal intervention by high officials of international organizations decisively influence the outcomes of multilateral negotiations? In the words of two leading international lawyers, can "faceless international bureaucrats, unelected...

The social context in coercive international bargaining.
March 22, 1999... Although international relations scholarship emphasizing the role of social constructs such as norms and culture has established a beachhead in the area of security studies,(1) it has yet to take on another bastion of the rational materialist...

Perverse institutionalism: NATO and the Greco-Turkish conflict.
March 22, 1999... Last year the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved the expansion of the Atlantic alliance. Whereas some advocates of enlarging NATO, particularly Eastern European leaders for whom the Soviets' iron grip is an all too recent memory, stress the...

Legitimacy and authority in international politics.
March 22, 1999... What motivates states to follow international norms, rules, and commitments? All social systems must confront what we might call the problem of social control - that is, how to get actors to comply with society's rules - but the problem is...

The European Union and international outcomes.
March 22, 1999... Analysts of the European Union (EU) and international bargaining have generally failed to appreciate how the shift within the EU from unanimity to qualified majority voting has affected European bargaining positions and international...