International Organization articles from September 1997

International Organization archives from September 1997

Taking preferences seriously: a liberal theory of international politics.
September 22, 1997... This article reformulates liberal international relations (IR) theory in a nonideological and nonutopian form appropriate to empirical social science. Liberal IR theory elaborates the insight that state-society relations - the relationship of...

The constitutional structure of international society and the nature of fundamental institutions.
September 22, 1997... Modern states have constructed a multiplicity of issue-specific regimes to facilitate collective action. The majority of these institutions are specific instances of the deeper institutional practices that structure modem international society,...

Moral authority as a power resource.
September 22, 1997... Nearly half a century has passed since Harold D. Lasswell and Abraham Kaplan generated a treatise on political theory that advocated analysis of power as a framework for analysis of political process.(1) Fully half a century has passed since Hans...

The structuring of a world environmental regime, 1870-1990.
September 22, 1997... In recent decades a great expansion has occurred in world environmental organization, both governmental and nongovernmental, along with an explosion of worldwide discourse and communication about environmental problems. All of this constitutes a...

The absence of Middle Eastern great powers: political "backwardness" in historical perspective.
September 22, 1997... Propelled by the oil boom of the mid-1970s the Middle East emerged as the world's fastest growing region.(1) Hopes and expectations were high for Arab political consolidation, economic advancement, and cultural efflorescence. With falling oil...

No vacancy: the political geography of immigration control in advanced industrial countries.
September 22, 1997... This article examines the domestic political sources of immigration control in advanced market economy countries after World War II.(1) Immigration control can be distinguished from the broader concept of immigration policy by its emphasis on...

Explaining the international relations of secessionist conflicts: vulnerability versus ethnic ties.
September 22, 1997... Introduction With the end of the Cold War, many observers expected that international conflict would be less likely to occur and easier to manage. Given the successful resolution of the Gulf War and the European Community's (EC) efforts to...