International Organization articles from March 2001

International Organization archives from March 2001

The Territorial Integrity Norm: International Boundaries and the Use of Force.
March 22, 2001... Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. --Deuteronomy 27:17 Good fences make good neighbors. --Robert Frost, Mending Wall In the late twentieth century many international relations scholars and observers have...

Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth.
March 22, 2001... The 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in 1998 was marked by a flurry of conferences and publications by historians, but it was largely ignored in the discipline of international relations (IR). This oversight is odd because in IR...

Loosening the Ties that Bind: A Learning Model of Agreement Flexibility.
March 22, 2001... The tyranny of an unamendable constitution might lead to revolution; the forced continuance of the legal status quo as between states might make it more difficult to preserve peace. [1] We all know that future generations will have to...

Capital Mobility and the Origins of Stock Markets.
March 22, 2001... Political institutions play a role in shaping factor mobility across sectors, space, and borders. I provide an illustration of this accepted, though hardly researched, idea by looking at the emergence of modern capital markets in the...

The Institutional Foundations of Intergovernmentalism and Supranationalism in the European Union.
March 22, 2001... We present a unified model of the politics of the European Union (EU). We focus on the effects of the EU's changing treaty base--from the founding Rome Treaty (ratified in 1958) to the Single European Act (SEA, 1987), the Maastricht Treaty on...

Investing in the Peace: Economic Interdependence and International Conflict.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... Research appears to substantiate the liberal conviction that trade fosters global peace. Still, existing understanding of linkages between conflict and international economics is limited in at least two ways. First, cross-border economic...

Research Design and Method in International Relations: Editors' Introduction.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... This symposium addresses important questions of research design and method in international relations. Donald P. Green, Soo Yeon Kim, and David H. Yoon demonstrate the magnitude of unmeasured heterogeneity--a particular case of omitted...

Dirty Pool.
March 22, 2001... The quantitative study of international relations is dominated by analyses of pooled cross-sections. When analyzing dependent variables, such as the occurrence of a militarized dispute or the level of trade between two nations, researchers...

Clear and Clean: The Fixed Effects of the Liberal Peace.
March 22, 2001... In their article in this issue, Donald P. Green, Soo Yeon Kim, and David H. Yoon claim, contrary to liberal theory and extensive evidence from pooled time-series analyses, that neither joint democracy nor economic interdependence...

Throwing Out the Baby with the Bath Water: A Comment on Green, Kim, and Yoon.
March 22, 2001... Donald P. Green, Soo Yeon Kim, and David H. Yoon contribute to the literature on estimating pooled times-series cross-section models in international relations (IR). [1] They argue that such models should be estimated with fixed effects when...

Proper Nouns and Methodological Propriety: Pooling Dyads in International Relations Data.(analysis of the controversial statistical methods used by Donald P. Green, Soo Yeon Kim and David H. Yoon in their findings on the effect of democracy on military disputes.)(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2001... The intellectual stakes at issue in this symposium are very high: Donald P. Green, Soo Yeon Kim, and David H. Yoon apply their proposed methodological prescriptions and conclude that a key finding in the field of international relations is...