International Organization articles from September 1994

International Organization archives from September 1994

Institutional selection in international relations: state anarchy as order.
September 22, 1994... At the end of the feudal era, a dramatic economic change occurred. Localized barter exchange started to give way to monetary exchange and translocal trade. By the beginning of the fourteenth century, a variety of new institutional forms had...

International investment and colonial control: a new interpretation.
September 22, 1994... The relationship between international investment and military conflict has long been a theme of scholarly and popular debate. The most famous focus of discussion was the Hobson-Lenin thesis that modern colonial imperialism could be traced to...

Divided government and U.S. trade policy: theory and evidence.
September 22, 1994... Researchers have proposed a variety of explanations to account for U.S. trade policymaking. The international political economy literature emphasizes the interaction between international power relations and commercial exchange, the effect of...

The change of tide in political cooperation: a limited information model of European integration.
September 22, 1994... In the mid-1970s, Prime Minister Harold Wilson refused to commit Britain to European Community (EC) membership during the renegotiations about entry terms for the United Kingdom.(1) Perceiving this position as a "possible threat with a...

Informal market governance in Japan's basic materials industries.
September 22, 1994... Japan's international trade and industrial policies and performance have stimulated more than two decades of careful examination by scholars, officials, and many others. Even so, we have missed one means of Japanese import restraint that is...