International Organization articles from September 1996

International Organization archives from September 1996

International law and domestic institutions: reconciling North American "unfair" trade laws.
September 22, 1996... Whereas much has been written about how international institutions may facilitate cooperative behavior among nations, less attention has been paid to such institutions' domestic political purposes. This essay focuses on the purposes international...

Foreign direct investment and the demand for protection in the United States.
September 22, 1996... Ever since the publication of E.E. Schattschneider's seminal study of tariff policy in the United States, scholars have been probing the intricate connections among firm preferences, political activity, and protectionism.(1) Some have explored...

Inertia and change in the constellation of international governmental organizations, 1981-1992.
September 22, 1996... No one expects public institutions to die. Max Weber described bureaucracies as "practically indestructible," contending that "History shows that wherever bureaucracy gained the upper hand, as in China, Egypt and, to a lesser extent, in the Roman...

The new politics of voting alignments in the United Nations General Assembly.
September 22, 1996... The end of the cold war saw the dismantling of the bipolar system that had characterized international politics for more than forty years. The ensuing changes reflect a new era in international politics and raise questions about which issues are...

Third-party techniques for preventing conflict escalation and promoting peaceful settlement.
September 22, 1996... We may one day look back to the end of the cold war as a crucial turning point in the management of international conflict. Just over a decade ago third-party efforts to ameliorate international disputes, long a ubiquitous feature on the...

United Nations intervention and recurring conflict.
September 22, 1996... The end of the cold war has signaled a dramatic increase in the number and forms of United Nations (UN) intervention into ongoing conflicts. For example, the UN has doubled the number of its peacekeeping and observation missions since 1989. Yet...